Social Entrepreneurship and Development Management: Creating A Better Future for the Next Generation of Filipinos
You can END poverty and illiteracy.The Current Situation:
In the Philippines, at least 50 million people consider themselves poor. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 02, 2006)
Seven in ten Filipinos (70%) say their personal circumstances worsened over the last year, while 83% are of the opinion that the national quality of life of most Filipinos and their families, is worse now than it was a year ago. (Pulse Asia, March 2006).
On the other hand, the state of Philippine education is bleak. 9.2 million out of 57.6 million Filipinos aged 10 to 64 years cannot read, write, subtract and add, or understand simple instructions. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 05, 2006).
Our Answer: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Social entrepreneurs are Generative Leaders who combine business savvy with social mission. They are P.E.A.R.L.S.: Passionate, Ethical, Action-oriented, Results-focused, Leaders of Society.
They lead, inspire, create a vision and engage people to generate something from within themselves, thereby, fundamentally changing communities. Social entrepreneurs are catalysts of change.
Social entrepreneurs, Bill Drayton says, “are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.”
The CIE S.H.I.P.
In line with its vision to become a veritable institution who champions the upliftment of the quality of human life, CIE takes up as its social mission the challenge of confronting our country’s problem of illiteracy and poverty. CIE espouses the Pearl Principle advocating the ideology of ‘initiating change from within and within one’s sphere of influence’ in order to ‘transform a state of hopelessness into a state of optimism where opportunities are created as in the creation of a pearl.’ CIE has chosen social engagement and the Pearl Principle as the anchor of its social entrepreneurship programs.
CIE addresses the short and long-term goals of eradicating poverty and functional illiteracy through its Six High Impact Programs (SHIP).
CIE captains the SHIP in spearheading the creation of Social Enterprises to address problems in education and poverty. The SHIP is an acronym for Six High Impact Programmes of CIE putting into action tenets of the Pearl Principle. These are viable and sustainable development programs that can be undertaken by NGOs, POs, cooperatives and like-minded individuals including CIE students who dare to engage in this mission as partners.
CIE, believing that everyone is an active learner who creates meaning not only through theory but more importantly through practice, has in fact required its own students to be advocates of the PEARL Principle. Graduating classes in high school and college engage in projects that actually help alleviate the life of a disadvantaged family. They teach families life-skills to earn, manage and sustain themselves to truly improve their quality of life.
CIE S.H.I.P. shall turn adversities into opportunities by creating Social Enterprises which are undertaken not as acts of charity but as processes of reciprocity so that it may ultimately create an intrinsic value to the community that CIE serves.
The Business Model: Entrepreneurial Development Management
Traditional sources of funding are becoming scarce. Donor-fatigue syndrome is mounting because of global recession and economic crisis.
The Entrepreneurial Development Management (EDM) model dares to help eradicate poverty and illiteracy by creating social enterprises which are undertaken NOT as acts of charity but as processes of reciprocity, ultimately creating an intrinsic value to the community it serves. The EDM business model is self-generating because it has a mechanism for internal resource generation.
The ultimate goal is for The SHIPs to attain self-sufficiency while increasing social impact. This is achieved by massively promoting EDM, by increasing partnerships and operating in as many areas as possible.
The main requirement is PASSION for social engagement to make a difference in the pursuit of nation-building.
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The Challenge
How many of us will dare find the gift within ourselves and actually turn it into something positive? How many of us can find and honour our strength and flexibility with the inner power to create and succeed rather than break apart?
As CIE endeavors to build a better future for the Philippines through quality education, The School for Leaders enjoins Filipinos to engage with its mission - for love of country.
ENGAGE with the Pearl Principle Advocacy.
posted by Centre for International Education @ 2:49 AM
2 Comments:
How Can I help? I am an MBA Student and working with the Chamber of Commerce here in Kidapawan City.
I have read thru the Entrepreneur magazine about your advocacy in Pearls Principle. I sensed that you are calling for a rolled up sleeves and there is a lot of job to be done. I am Rimmon A. Paren, an MBA Student here in Kidapawan City, an Assistant Executive Director of the Metro Kidapawan Chamber of Commerce, an advocate and member of the core group of Philippine Bamboo Forum. A pro environmentalist to say briefly, Can you tell me on how can I share with your workload?
How can I start your advocacy to become my advocacy here in Mindanao?
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