SageSource Social Broadcast Opportunities
Benefits for You…
SageSource Social Broadcast Opportunities are inspiring new media directors, producers, editors for social impact with our digitial “how to’s” competition based on older adult challenges with our digital world. (details coming soon).
Social entrepreneurship is the work of a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors.
○ Gain Valuable Technology Skills and Multimedia Experience
○ Help Seniors in Your Community
○ Receive High School and College Community Service Credit
Make your neighborhood better…
Help Seniors in your neighborhood. Did you know? Social isolation among seniors, commonly referred to as “senior isolation,” occurs when an older adult has such limited social ties that there are few places to turn for help or for social support when the need arises. Moreover, this trend is expected to worsen in the coming decades as a demographic surge in the elderly population takes hold. As a group, baby-boomers harbor even more risk factors for senior isolation than the current generation of seniors; as such, a formula for disaster exists that will require a unique solution for local communities to help themselves