Ashoka is the overarching organization that launched so many of the understandings in a new scholarly field of social entrepreneurship. Changemakers is the site where the innovative individual social entrepreneurs share knowledge and experience about change, organizations and, often, politics. Consider how best to define the upside and downside of a social entrepreneurial lens. Make sure you think through how these new understandings developed in the Learning Activity will impact your own change initiative that you will share in the Strategic Action Plan.
What is the upside and what is the downside of the political frame as applied to the social entrepreneur of your choice?
Define what impacts the upside and downside of that social entrepreneurial lens had on the organization.Provide some examples to illustrate both sides.
How was the political power of the organization affected by the upside and downside of the lens?
How does that framing affect your assessment of the power for change in the initiative?
How would such a framing apply to your own change initiatives?