Anja Cheriakova is a project editor on social entrepreneurship at The Broker.
Anja co-founded the ‘charity wine project’, in which she combined her passion for entrepreneurship and social action. Her interest in human relations and social development and her action-driven philosophy were key to the success of the project, which raised 500,000 dollars for charity in Laos. She has experience in Socionext and Context. Anja is currently engaged in everything to do with social entrepreneurship: she has started two of her own social enterprises, conducts research on the subject, and supports other social entrepreneurs in their mission. Besides social entrepreneurship, her specialities are strategy, crowd sourcing and funding, research, networking, social media and creativity.
Organizing a social enterprise is more a question of generating social impact than income, which puts it at odds with the standard idea of doing business. Therefore, social entrepreneurship needs a business strategy that goes further than making a…
read moreThe concept of social entrepreneurship has been caught up in its own popularity and a variety of definitions have emerged. Amid the general confusion, four schools of thoughts can be distinguished, each of which emphasizes a different outcome (inc…
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