Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies


Louisiana Lt. Gov.
Mitch Landrieu
The Aspen Institute and Root Cause, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, MA, released a report, Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies, that explores how government leaders can address major community challenges through partnerships with social entrepreneurs.

The report also offers 13 specific models that help illustrate how such partnerships can be carried out. On April 29, the Aspen Institute and Root Cause hosted a briefing to discuss the report and the challenges government leaders face in supporting social entrepreneurship.  The report and panel discussion are part of Root Cause's newest initiative, Public Innovators, and Aspen’s on-going social enterprise initiative which began in 2004.

Read the press release and download the full report.

Watch video clips from a panel discussion of the report and the challenges government leaders face in supporting social entrepreneurship:
 
Opening remarks from Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, Aspen Institute and Jane Wales, Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program and Vice President, Philanthropy and Society 

Remarks from Andew Wolk, Founder and CEO of Root Cause and MIT Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, author of Advancing Social Entrepreneurship: Recommendations for Policy Makers and Government Agencies 

Panelist Presentations:
Michele Jolin, Sr. Fellow Center for American Progress; Mitch Landrieu, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor and Founder of the nation's first Office of Social Entrepreneurship; Katherine Freund, Founder, President and Executive Director, ITN/America; and Frederick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
 
Mitch Landrieu, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, discusses the role of government in social entrepreneurship