Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)

Membership - Activities

Social Entrepreneurship - The Challenges, The Rewards and How you can Play a Part

Date	August 15, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time	07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Venue	Singapore Institute of Management 461 Clementi Road Singapore 599491
Fee	S$10.00/S$10.00/S$15.00/S$25.00 (UniSIM & SIM GE Alumni/SIM Students/SIM Members/Non-Members)
Deadline	August 14, 2012
Enquiries	Eunice Ling - 6248 6136 euniceling@sim.edu.sg

Are you interested in starting a business or social enterprise?

Do you want to play a part incorporating the less fortunate into your business?
Want to find out more about social entrepreneurship?
Come to this session and hear insights on managing a social enterprise and the things to look out for in running a business.

Talk Outline

· How to start a business
· The first year in running a business
· Your role in a business
· Social aspects of a business

· Challenges in managing a business and how to overcome them

· Inspirational story of how a social enterprise started with only a small capital and recovered its initial investment in just two months

Leona Leong is the founder of the social enterprise, Aii (or ‘love’ in Chinese),
which firmly believes that the less fortunate and less privileged in society deserves an equal opportunity in life.

Aii hires and empowers the hearing-impaired to run the full operations of the company from sales and marketing to conceptualizing and packaging corporate and wedding gifts and favors. Aii has been featured in the newspapers, on radio, on online portals and is a winner of the 2012 Enabling Employers Awards.