SOCAIL ENTRPRENEURSHIP is a new form of entrepreneurship that exhibits characteristics of nonprofits, governments, and businesses. It applies traditional private-sector entrepreneur- ship’s focus on innovation, risk taking, and large-scale transformation to social problem solving. The social entrepreneurship process begins with a perceived social opportunity that is translated into an enterprise concept; resources are then ascertained and acquired to exe- cute the enterprise’s goals. This new movement has garnered attention in a number of ways in recent years.
                          

 social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital often by founding humanitarian organizations.
    let us see some great social entrepreneurs and were they are located, and what they found for their own benefit and  society.

Dr Willie Smits (Borneo, Indonesia) - Founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, Founder and Chairperson of the Masarang Foundation

• Thinlas Chorol (India) - Founder of the Ladadakhi Women's Travel Company, which despite social norms work to bring women into, the otherwise male-dominated Ladakhi tourism industry.

• Nand Kishore Chaudhary (India) - Founder of Jaipur rugs, which promotes rural development through capacity building of rural people in carpet weaving.

• Harish Hande (India) - Founder of Selco India, a solar electric light company in 1995, which over the years has lit up over 120,000 households, to emerge as India's leading solar technology firm. Magsaysay Award 2011.

• Yashveer Singh (India) – Founder of National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, supporting youth-driven social entrepreneurship.