Topic : Social Entrepreneurship
Rick Aubry, Ph.D., is the President and Executive Director of Rubicon Programs Inc. in Richmond, California, a non-profit organisation that provides services to over 3,000 people annually who are homeless, having very low income and living with disabilities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1986, Rick has been the director at Rubicon overseeing the growth of the agency from $980,000 to an annual revenue of over $15 million in 2005.
Rick is a faculty member and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he is also a fellow of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation. He is the co-author of the book Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income (Jossey Bass, 2004) and has also authored several Stanford case studies on social entrepreneurial organisations. He has lectured on social entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, the London Business School, Bainbridge Graduate School and at numerous international conferences. Rick’s work and contribution at Rubicon has been cited in the Harvard Business Review, the Brookings Institute Journal as well as the New York Times.
In 2001, he was selected by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation as one of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, and since, has regularly presented the work of Rubicon, the Schwab Foundation and social entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum Annual meetings in Davos.
Rick earned his BA from Syracuse University, MA in Psychology from West Georgia University and Ph.D. in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. Rick is also a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Program for Nonprofit Leaders.
Session Plans:
SESSION 1: The Concept of Social Entrepreneurship
- An overview
- Its implications on market failure (a video case)
SESSION 2: Executing Social Responsibility
- Asian Neighborhood Design:
- An in-depth study of an organisation through three stages of development;
- Measurement of Social Enterprise;
- Scale and Decision making in a Social Enterprise.
- Roberts Enterprise Development Fund: An Overview of Venture Philanthropy.
SESSION 3: Theory of Change and Corporate Strategy for a Lasting Social Enterprise
- Transfair: A practical understanding of the ‘Theory of Change’.
- Rubicon Programs: How do you build a social enterprise for it to last? (a video display to discuss the application of corporate strategy” to nonprofit organisations)
