{"id":20689,"date":"2024-06-19T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:04:55","slug":"ug-lecture-on-emerging-trends-in-social-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ug-lecture-on-emerging-trends-in-social-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"UG Lecture on Emerging Trends in Social Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The University of Guyana&#8217;s International Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies held a guest lecture on Wednesday focusing on emerging trends in social entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture was delivered by Haitian Business Analyst Patrick Dessources, who emphasized that charity alone is not the solution for helping underprivileged or economically challenged individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he advocated for encouraging and empowering people to start profit-making businesses that can drive the social change they desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dessources highlighted that effecting change through social entrepreneurship is a modern approach that requires collaboration and community involvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of having a support system and engaging with the community to ensure collective understanding and participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also underscored the need for local and foreign entrepreneurs to collaborate, leveraging human resources and knowledge across borders to develop innovative solutions to both local and global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dessources pointed out that while funding is crucial, generating earned revenue is essential for social entrepreneurs to scale up their businesses and attract financiers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that demonstrating profitability is key to accessing further financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, he noted that grants, donations, and impact investments are viable funding sources for those interested in social entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guyana&#8217;s International Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies held a guest lecture on Wednesday focusing on emerging trends in social entrepreneurship. The lecture was delivered by Haitian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20691,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions\/20691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}