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4.2 Opportunity Identification
Community Service Learning · Grade 10 · 10 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Assessing the needs of the community for a social enterprise
- Generating social enterprise ideas
- Selecting viable social enterprise ideas with the community
What you will be able to do
- assess the needs of the community for a social enterprise
- develop social enterprise ideas for the community
- select viable social enterprise ideas with the community
- develop genuine interest in social entrepreneurship in addressing community issues
Key questions
“How do you tell a good idea from one that only sounds good?”
Lessons
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Spotting the opportunity
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizWhy a need is not automatically an opportunity, and where to look for real ones.
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Generating and choosing ideas
40 min · 2 practice tasks · quizProducing many ideas properly, then narrowing them with the community.
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Assessing needs for an enterprise
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to collect evidence of a community need that could support trade, not only a problem statement.
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Whose need, whose voice
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizThe people you ask decide which need you see, so a viable idea must include users and the quiet, not only leaders.
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Hidden costs that make a market
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizA need becomes a market when people already pay - in fare, time, spoilage or kerosene - more than your offer would cost.
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Kenyan opportunity cases
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizReading real local patterns - waste, distance, unused skill, school-gate demand - until an opportunity is obvious.
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Testing an idea cheaply
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to tell a good idea from one that only sounds good: ten sales, pre-orders and a count, before any launch.
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Capability and starting small
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizA viable idea is one this group can deliver this month - demand without capability is someone else's opportunity.
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Selecting with the community
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizHow to take a shortlist to actual users, record what they say, and let a no change the idea.
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Interest that lasts
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizGenuine interest in social entrepreneurship means staying after the mark, not extracting a story from the community for school.