Social Enterprise Development for Communities

      DLSU-COSCA  expands implementation  of the  Lasallian Social Enterprise  for  Economic Development (LSEED)  program  with the series of   workshop undertaken for another batch of members of partner community - based organizations in   Metro Manila  and  in  Lian,  Batangas.  LSEED attempts to  develop more student “Champions” including  those from the DLSU-Laguna Campus as strategy to support the development of social enterprise.  Specifically. the program helps build the social entrepreneurship capacities of  women and  budding  student  social  entrepreneurs. 

       COSCA engages  participation of additional community  partners  for the its second batch  of  LSEED Social Enterprise Fellowship Program  which will be implemented in partnership with the University Council of Student  Organizations (CSOs). The L-SEED SE Bootcamp 2019 aims to enable partner communities and students create social enterprises that are relevant, sustainable and impact - driven.

      For  the targeted members of Lian Fisherfolk Association (LFA), local  fishers  participated in a  community workshop dubbed "Capacity Building on Social Enterpreneurship Skills  for  LFA"  held last September 2018  in Barangay Lumaniag, Lian, Batangas facilitated  by  LSEED team, in partnership with COSCA's Partnership and Network Development Program  team.   Approximately  forty (40) local fishers  and  / or  households  of  fishers were  oriented  on  ways to nurture  and  manage  their  organization -  sharing  with  them the knowledge  on  the  following:  social enterpreneurship, organizational development, conflict resolution/ management, social business canvass and design thinking.  Also. they were oriented  on  various scenarios  and  were  exposed  in  an  actual pitching session  as  a strategy  to  assess their level of understanding on the topics  and  on the identified business models in area of eco - tourism.

      The  program  continues to capacitate more community members to  help  them  prepare themselves in their  social enterpreneurship  journey through  the series of workshop  introducing them  the concepts of  “social entrepreneurship  in the  Philippines,  characteristics  of  SEs”, and “responding  to  community problem/s, creating and  developing the  SE idea” and  business incubation.

     Members  of  partner  organizations also participated in the LSEED Learning and Organizing Workshop held  in  Cavite, Philippines and attended by  representatives from the  academe.

    Student Fellows and LSEED Community Core members  for Fellowship Program Batch 2 actively participated in the Study Tour at Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm in Angat, Bulacan.  The two-day exposure to various social enterprises, learning/content sessions, and teambuilding activities  in Bulacan  were jointly facilitated and hosted by the GK and LSEED Teams.