Social Enterprise Development for Communities

         Four teams completed the second LSEED Fellowship Program held on May 6 to 10, 2019. L-SEED SE Bootcamp 2019, just like the first LSEED boot camp, aims to enable more partner communities and students create social enterprises that are relevant, sustainable and impact driven. These new sets of potential social entrepreneurs are community members from twelve (12) targeted DLSU-COSCA’s partner communities/organizations in Metro Manila. The Social Entrepreneurship training introduced the participants to concepts such as “social entrepreneurship in the  Philippines and characteristics of SEs”, and “responding to community problem/s and  creating and  developing the  SE idea.”   The second batch  of student  Social Enterprise ( SE) Fellows, in partnership with DLSU’s Council of Student  Organizations (CSOs) collaborate  with the partner community organizations and communities  in the  writing and implementation of their project proposals.

           The series of workshop for another batch of 30 potential entrepreneurs who members of COSCA’s partners in Metro Manila, and the identification and engagement of student “Champions” on social entrepreneurship, is DLSU’s strategy to support the development of social enterprises in urban poor communities.  The program helps build the social entrepreneurship capacities of promising urban poor women and out-of-school youth. 

           This initiative gains recognition with DLSU’s LSEED program winning (runner up) in the 2019 In _Pact Asia under the Academic Leadership in Social Innovations category.   Also, four teams from DLSU successfully competed in SEED Malaysia, HP Regionals in Shanghai, Tokyo, and in Manila, Philippines while two teams participated in SEED Vietnam and Indonesia. Likewise,  Team Isdabest, another social enterprise being incubated under DLSU’s LSEED through its Hult Prize On Campus Initiative successfully presented their pitch in the July 27, 2019 Enactus Business Innovation Challenge.

          Based on an update made by Mr. Salonga, LSEED  Development Specialist, LSEED’s expansion in  Lian, Batangas, initiated the formation of 20 social entrepreneurs in the Lian area  while its   expansion in DLSU-Laguna campus supported the formation of at least 10 social entrepreneurs.