Welcome!

Passionate, motivated, and pragmatic about creating change?
You may be a young social entrepreneur and not even know it.

We are the Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada. We are building a community of young people (17-30) who are passionate about addressing social problems in the world. We are also looking for those committed to improving the best practices that already exist out there.

Want to learn more about social entrepreneurship? Read on!

Up until now, passion and energy and drive to improve the world has been seen to be either a hobby or something we do on the side in addition to school, or our “day” jobs.

While it is nice to do something good for society, eventually we realize we have to grow up, because it can be financially unrewarding to be non-profit workers, activists, or by being socially conscious. That is, until now.

Social entrepreneurship is a new trend that is emerging in both the non-profit sectors and in business schools. The premise behind it is that by applying entrepreneurial principles to social causes – we can find innovative ways of creating organizations or businesses that are financially sustainable and that create social benefit at the same time. Sounds pretty good, right?

Social entrepreneurship has been a growing set of practices in many countries around the world, particularly in the U.K. and the U.S. We are among the growing community of organizations that are building the field in Canada, and are one of the only ones run by, and for youth.

Interested in learning more?

Come to our meetups or visit our website at www.ysec.org!