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Nic Frances
My current role
Anglican Priest and Supporter and Friend of ISX RegionAustralia-wide operationBiographyI was called a 'social entrepreneur' on a BBC radio program half a dozen years ago with Andrew Mawson. The minute I heard the phrase I liked it and thought it described me. It encapsulated my training in business, my experience as a hotel and marketing manager and stockbroker, my work as a founder of a welfare organization, the journey through ordination to become an Anglican Priest and the way I was trying to use all of these skills and all of my learning to draw in as many people as I possibly could to meet the problems of social injustice we met daily in the place I was living. Six years after hearing that word 'social entrepreneur', I actually think like most things there is very little that is new about it. It is almost what we called in the 70s and early 80s 'bloody good community work' with the added difference that it was not just about us as welfare workers going into a poor community and supporting it, it was being in that community and bringing in local government, national government, business, statutory authorities, neighbours, in fact anyone who had some interest in changing the situation. To do this work the only thing that changed is that I had to be willing to talk to people that in the past I had seen as the problem. I think the social entrepreneur is willing not to point at the problem but to recognize their part in it and join with others to take collective responsibility for changing it. Sometimes that can be next door neighbours working with other people in the street or having a bbq to organize a meeting place for their kids. Or it may be the welfare sector, banks and governments coming together to create low cost credit for every Australian big or small.
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