Social and Community Entrepreneurship

Social and community entrepreneurs seek to solve societal problems governments and corporations have failed to address. Critically surveying a globally diverse field of concepts and practices, this course examines how to meaningfully effect social change through innovative business models that put people and planet before profit, and through entrepreneurial and organizing strategies to alter the behaviors and practices of governments and existing enterprises. We also examine multi-faceted entrepreneurial responses to challenges like racial injustice, climate change, the housing crisis, and economic inequality.