Fhsu Mooc Course - Social entrepreneurship part 15/16. your next steps

plan farm it's good to be with you again and i'm very much appreciate you being here with me as you know this course is called social entrepreneurship a grassroots revolution today i'd like to address an issue that what i think is great importance your next steps your next steps what now as a result of as far as uh... you've gone through this course so far but first i do want to mention web address all the information about this course may be found location we also have a face book page simply search for social entrepreneurship i'd like to get mentioned the optional book that i've written this book covers the much of the information in this course but this book is not to excel in this course you're next steps number one i ask that you please be careful there are many opportunities out there to do good and make careers there are also opportunities to be unsuccessful all ideas are dynamite ideas the ideas that we have we oftentimes think they're wonderful they might not be as wonderful as we think they are and equally important point is that dynamite ideas don't always i am a person experiencing conflict right now on the one hand i want to encourage i want to say go do it you can do it have a good idea stay with it never get out realize that there be failures along the way make adjustments succeed you can do that the positive side as i mentioned i'm experiencing a conflict on the other hand i want you to be cautious how do i deal with this conflict how do i encourage you to be strong but help you protect yourself here some of my suggestions proceed carefully and slowly all you can fully understand the problem study existing successful non-profits billpay strong project development report if possible volunteer with a successful nonprofit have the skills to perform necessary tasks have income from another source when you begin have client and community support start small those are some of my suggestions that i ask you to think about before you venture off on your own be very careful please do not hurt yourself many ventures are not successful to continue but at the same time the best social entrepreneurship ideas are run strongly and well they do succeed if there's a double-edged sword here be careful it is possible for us to hurt ourselves financially and possibly otherwise emotionally it's also possible for us to do something very special how to help you're next steps continuing miss my second point collaboration can be important by encourage you to form a small team maybe a from two to five people to plant and start your social entrepreneurship project maybe your team is your family now that's just sort of a a wild idea i had as i was preparing these powerpoint slides that idea crossed my mind for the first time i'm fascinated with the possibility of parents perhaps who are inclined in a social entrepreneurship direction anyway maybe start some project to help a category of people in need about which they care involved may be there teenage children circus sort of an interesting way of socializing young people this type of work to be social entrepreneurs maybe your team is composed if your closest friends maybe your team is carefully selected based on their skills of course you can be a lone wolf for a while if you want but eventually we need to bring in others it can be fun and meaningful to be working with others almost from the beginning pierson fertile ground for teens the most fertile ground or social entrepreneurship entrepreneurship teams might sprout examples would be number one organizations with a service com ponent people in need these in the united states what crosses my mind is men's and women's clubs veterans organizations religious organizations so these are service organizations the service organizations seem to be extremely well fit to social entrepreneurship work uh... they are set up to serve others their setup to help some categories of people new members uh... who come to the club to be sort of service organizations they are either already socialized to assist others or a part of their involvement in the club sometimes involves that socialization in within these service organizations there is a eight culture thinking about other people a culture of looking around and seeing what needs exist attempting to make uh... some effort too reduce those problems of these three types of organizations in the united states i believe religious organizations have the greatest opportunity because of the numbers of people involved i believe that some christian churches art incubators for social entrepreneurs i suspect that any religious orientation can be an incubator for social entrepreneurs as long as there is a commitment to assist people in need i simply m not extremely familiar other religions my orientation has been christian that's my familiarity and that's where me might primary comments on religion will focus these comments might extend well beyond religious organizations there are many christian churches that i have a very strong commitment too serving other people many of these churches are large but regardless of size is occurring i think in these churches i'm there many things occurring in churches one is a socialization to an encouragement to people open our eyes too look for difficulties that other people are having into attempts to people you need one of the things that impresses me about christian churches and at this point could relate to of the religious or even organizations as well as but in fact these points i think do that within churches there's much talent there's much energy there's much commitment and very often there are considerable financial resources i'd just wonder couple minister to mention the the fruit fullness how the optic the potentially great potential that it seems to me that religious organizations have to do social entrepreneurship at work the main point here is that those organizations that encourage service projects to help people in need are good places for social entrepreneurship teams still on this category of fertile ground for developing teams the second point i'd like to make the category of people as retired ordinarily retired many older people across the world are very knowledgeable educ and reasonably well off financially many of these people want to give back to their society in their later years in fact this points relate this point relates to me i'm it's been a surprise to me but i have grown old the years have gone by and i find myself anymore in the stage of life where i am right now i have fought about my life i have very appreciative of the good life that i've had and i have concluded very clearly much more than i did it's very important to me i i want to get back much more before i leave this earth so i'm to simply trying to bring myself in to this point but i'm making that older people who are all over already retired may be close to retirement as they reflect on their lives they may conclude that they've had very nice lines and they may conclude like i have but i've been more of a taker and i have a giver i still have a lot of opportunity to give the point here is that people in this stage of life i think are a very powerful force in our world i think that there are probably many people in our world in that regard many older people volunteer and that's a wonderful activity that's not what i'm talking about i'm suggesting that older people who have had successful careers might want to actually start projects this category of people is a huge world resource as i was preparing this information i went to the internet and just got a few recent uh... bits of information in the united states approximately thirteen percent of our population uh... is in the age category of sixty-five years old and old boulder and that is about forty there're many nations at our world that are being gene as united states europe is a good example some of the other nations in in other parts of the world uh... are experiencing aging they are experiencing increasing numbers and percents people in the sixty five and altered category for all those nations are china mexico and brazil my point is that there are many older people in our world many of them have had successful careers are intelligent they have a lot of energy and a i'd believe they are one of our phenomenal resources for social entrepreneurship across still looking at fertile ground for teens number three people close to starting their first career those wanting to switch careers i'm especially interested in young people who often have very strong social concerns they care about people who are having difficulties and they want to help in addition people with careers better unfulfilled ling represent another potential category of people for social entrepreneurship the summary of fertile ground locations for social entrepreneurship teams to emerge just quickly running through these again organizations that encourage service to others older people who are retired or near retirement and third people who want a fulfilling career with for me especial cus on young people in high school in college people who are searching for the first your next steps i'm getting back to uh... a listing that i was uh... but i started earlier number three you'll need an organization through which to operate in this kind of work people support and organization with the social entrepreneurship project an individual you must find and organisational i see two choices hillary you started an organization or you find an existing one of the two the simplest will be defined an existing organization that will meet your project your individual those are two important points there this courses focused primarily on project needs other people in need of building a project to help other people in need here i'd like to talk about your deeds and mines all humans have needs uh... we we would comfort we we seek a number of different things the point i want to make right now is that there's nothing wrong with us creating a win situation discourses folks focused on helping people in the the other part of that win candy ourselves there's nothing wrong securing affair salary affair pay further work that we're doing we helping others also there's nothing wrong with us wanting to be respected as human beings uh... wanting to leave you positively by others uh... and we can help attain those types of desires doing respect respectable work such as entrepreneurship the being quite i'm wanting to make right now is that i think it's important if we're going to stayin this business of helping other people i think it's important that we are also helping ourselves because when we are helping ourselves helps us continue the energy other people i'm craig just to try to help some of our to meet some of our basic needs where helping other people creating win-win situations if our project is a running club for me in in a homeless shelter can the homeless shelter beevi organization through which we work keep in mind that we are the issue that i'm addressing right now is you finding an organizational home our project might dictate what type of organization example of a a running club for man in a homeless shelter if that first homeless shelter where we might institute a running club is willing to take on a bigger project maybe change their statement change their mission statement uh... to expand it to helping other a homeless shelters may be that homeless shelter could be the organization through which we work our project is that running club minute homeless shelter that so the point here is that it might be it's a good thing to it's much simpler if we can find another organization rather than start one ourselves if you don't find an acceptable organizational home if you are hot to start your own organization gulfport if you do start your own organization please be aware that these animals need care and feeding when the newness wears off how to register as a non-profit corporation i would like to briefly take a elec at this in the united states if we are going to have a nonprofit we must register as a nonprofit through one of the states this can be easy inexpensive and fairly a second step to consider is to submit an application a classification called i are s five all one three status in the united states that's the internal revenue service code it's one of the nonprofit corporation coach let's quickly look at each step and i want to emphasize the following two steps related only to the united states first registering as a nonprofit in a state most familiar with my state which is kansas and so when i go to the internet kian the search kansas not for profit articles of inc i come up they website but by the kansas state the government of of my state and a form with a number cn five one zero two title on this pages kansas secretary of state not-for-profit articles of inc and this is a two page form i will not go over the details of it because year most of your probably in another state if you're in the united states and you will need to look at yours but uh... there's it simple information two pages of information you are providing uh... your name address uh... was the board of directors answering a few other questions and uh... in the state of kansas the fee dollars easy fairly how quick it takes my experience has been brown thirty per forty days from the time it's submitted fairly inexpensive that is one option that other option let's see i might have a slide related to that blvd the other option is applying four five qu one c_ three internal revenue service status and uh... i have given though web address uh... for this uh... fisck might be helpful for those of you in the united states and when uh... in this site we find an application for recognition of exemption under section five oh one c_ three of the internal revenue code and so here is the a face page for this this is but the process of receiving five oh one c_ three approval from the internal revenue service takes longer more complex it is more expensive the cost at the time uh... that i'm taking these the cost of seven hundred fifty dollars the form i have it here with me i don't recall how many pages but this my recollection is around twenty pages or so uh... there's a lot of detail it's one of those things that if we just take it step at a time when we we can get through it and the weight uh... receive a response from the i_r_s_ uh... typically takes a few months those are uh... some issues related to buyer s status and registering has estate anxiously registering as a non-profit in a state i do want to mention three benefits to having iris five oh one c_ three status individual liability is limited the contributions of donors to our non-profit are taxed free many and it's my sense that most grant funding sources require the status are going to consider a grant application from us for a project you're next steps point number four maybe we could stay in contact even after this course i'm taping at a time before the course has even started i don't even know if this movie will be successful maybe not if it is there will be too many people for me to stay in contact individual would you be willing to stay in contact with me maybe through my face book page and or my social entrepreneurship blog uh... for face book as you know all you need to do research social entrepreneurship for my blog it has sort of a long name it's all one-word social entrepreneurship grants dot com you can locate me that way i want to thank you very much for for being here and uh... one way or another i would very much enjoy staying in contact thank you for your time today all right it