PMAP 8232 - Social Innovation and Enterprise

3 Credit Hours
Description
Social enterprise couples the resources generated by market activities with the social ambitions of nonprofit organizations. Spurred on by the social entrepreneurship movement, social enterprises transform communities through highly innovative problem solving. Their purpose is to carve out new routes to sustainable solutions to social problems on local, national and international levels. This course will examine social enterprises from both nonprofit and business perspectives and provide students with a broad overview of their purposes, forms, funding, management approaches, and impact. May be repeated for a maximum of twenty-four credit hours.