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June 2009 65438+1October 65438+March, Lenovo Group took? Love, create the future? With the theme, Lenovo Youth Public Welfare Entrepreneurship Plan was launched in Beijing. From now until the end of 65438+February, Lenovo will openly recruit and select outstanding non-profit entrepreneurial teams for college students and young people who have just entered the workplace, and provide them with key support such as professional training, non-profit internships and venture capital. The plan aims to guide more young people to join public welfare undertakings and provide new ideas for youth groups to find jobs.

Different from traditional commercial entrepreneurship, the core goal of mass entrepreneurship is to meet social needs and create social benefits, involving green environmental protection, poverty alleviation and development, community service, information popularization, care for special groups and other fields. This activity requires the participating teams to submit a public welfare entrepreneurship plan for specific social and public needs.

So, what is mass entrepreneurship?

Characteristics and elements of public welfare entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is a concept, which is also translated as social innovation, social entrepreneurship or public welfare innovation. Oxford University Public Welfare Entrepreneurship Research Center believes that public welfare entrepreneurship has? Public welfare? (social)? Innovation? (Innovation) What else? Market orientation? Three characteristics (market orientation). ? Public welfare? (Sociality) is to safeguard the public interest; ? Innovation? Innovation means the generation of new ideas or the creation of new models; ? Market orientation? (Market-oriented) shows its performance-driven, competitive and forward-looking.

It can be seen that mass entrepreneurship refers to the pursuit of innovation, efficiency and social effect by individuals or social organizations under the stimulation of social mission. It is a social activity to meet the needs of society and provide products or services to the public in order to establish new organizations. It mainly includes the establishment of non-profit organizations and the establishment of social enterprises to solve social problems.

Public welfare entrepreneurship has the following three elements: a strong public welfare mission, a dedicated team and an innovative public welfare model. First of all, a strong sense of public welfare mission means that you are passionate about serving the public and have a fiery heart for helping others and contributing to society. Secondly, we should form a dedicated team and find a group of like-minded people to engage in a public welfare undertaking. Like teams in other fields, mass entrepreneurship teams need centripetal force and cohesion, and must also have a high degree of dedication to work hard for public welfare dreams. In addition, mass entrepreneurship also needs to focus on the innovation of models, so that limited resources can help more people and create more social benefits.

Opportunities for public welfare entrepreneurship

The public welfare field not only has huge social needs, but also creates more employment opportunities. According to the Asia Foundation, 565,438+0% hospitals, 46% universities, 86% museums, 90% art groups and 58% social service organizations in the United States exist as non-profit organizations. The employment ratio of non-profit organizations in China is 0.34%, while the world average is 10%.

According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics in 2007, the proportion of non-profit employment in China's social service industry is about 7%, which is 1.6 times lower than the international average and 2.6 times lower than that of nine western European countries.

And if the number of social service employees in China is increased to 20% of the total employed population, non-profit employment will account for 18% of the social service population, said Yang Tuan, deputy director of the Social Policy Research Center of China Academy of Social Sciences? The non-profit employed population in social services in China should be at least 8.92 million. At present, the' employed population' in this field has just exceeded 500,000, which means it can be increased by more than 15 times. ?

Pioneer of public welfare entrepreneurship

In fact, a group of caring, capable, dreamy and passionate young people in cy72.com have opened up a new sky in the field of public welfare under the guidance of their love and dreams.

Bian, a graduate of Fudan University, participated in many non-profit organizations during her school days. Her deep entrepreneurial complex drove her to embark on the road of public welfare entrepreneurship, and initiated the establishment of a public welfare organization-Friendship Society for the Blind, which pays attention to the blind and visually impaired. By training blind operators, setting up electro-acoustic bands for the blind, and training disabled people to be volunteers to help the blind, she created light with love, ignited people's love and lit up the eyes of the blind.

Tian Lin, who graduated from Xiamen University, was founded in 2007? Vision china? Committed to providing help for senior high school students' professional choice and college students' career planning. ? Vision china? More than 200 volunteers from government agencies, state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises, China Academy of Social Sciences, cheung kong graduate school of business and other institutions gathered together. They approached the school with rich life experiences and shared their career, entrepreneurial experience and life insights with students. By September 2009, vision china had traveled to more than 20 schools in 7 provinces, cities and regions, and had wonderful sharing activities with 7,000 high school students and college students to help them broaden their horizons and better choose their life path.

Xiao, a doctor of neurobiology who graduated from Fudan University, initiated the establishment of a non-profit organization to spread new scientific and technological knowledge in April 2008? Science Squirrel Club? . ? Science Squirrel Club? Committed to promoting the popularization of science communication, using bloggers and holding readers' meetings to reveal profound scientific principles in vivid and interesting language and make science interesting, simple and practical. Just a year later? Science Squirrel Club? Just take it, okay? Deutsche Welle? The world's best blog and Chinese blog awards, their collections of articles sell well all over the country, and their stories are reported by major media. The Scientific Squirrel Club and its activities were rated as the top ten events of popular science in China in 2008, and Xiao Hua also won the prize? Shanghai popular science award? . ;