Social Entrepreneurs
It took us a while here at EDGE to get comfortable thinking of ourselves as social entrepreneurs until folks we had gone to for advice kept insisting that we, ourselves, are also part of the story of EDGE--not just the other folks we are looking to assist or the sectors we are revealing and demonstrating scalable potential in.
Recently we read an article that succinctly defined a social entrepreneur as someone looking to solve a social issue that the government and private industry are ignoring or have dropped the ball on.
In order to get the Pocahontas Coalfield where we work created in the 1880s the equivalent of $1bn in today's money was spent.
This coalfield was supposed to last forever. There was no sunset plan. There was little to no discussion of the region's other assets or those in use before timber and coal.
We knew the Calvary was not coming now.
We took on EDGE, the pilots in mountain farming, the outreach, the connections, the advocacy, the lobbying ourselves...because if not us, then who? If not now, then when?
We are also social entrepreneurs and we are not dropping the ball.
Recently we read an article that succinctly defined a social entrepreneur as someone looking to solve a social issue that the government and private industry are ignoring or have dropped the ball on.
In order to get the Pocahontas Coalfield where we work created in the 1880s the equivalent of $1bn in today's money was spent.
This coalfield was supposed to last forever. There was no sunset plan. There was little to no discussion of the region's other assets or those in use before timber and coal.
We knew the Calvary was not coming now.
We took on EDGE, the pilots in mountain farming, the outreach, the connections, the advocacy, the lobbying ourselves...because if not us, then who? If not now, then when?
We are also social entrepreneurs and we are not dropping the ball.
