A+cycle+of+service-learning+and+social+enterprise+-+Redefining+the+parameters+of+community+partnerships+and+service-learning+outcomes

**A cycle of service-learning and social enterprise: Redefining the parameters** **of community partnerships and service-learning outcomes** Leigh Gilchrist, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University [leigh.z.gilchrist@vanderbilt.edu] Sharon Shields, Professor, Vanderbilt University [sharon.l.shields@vanderbilt.edu] Ravi Patel, medical student, Vanderbilt University [ravi.patel@vanderbilt.edu]



**Keywords:** Social enterprise, conceptual framework, social entrepreneurship

**Track:** Theoretical or conceptual frameworks to advance research

**Format:** Team presentation

**Date & time:** Friday 2:00-3:10 **Location:** Salon 5

**Summary:** This presentation will examine the outcropping of a social enterprise (Nashville Mobile Market) from a Vanderbilt undergraduate service-learning course. Drawing from the evolution of this course-enterprise relationship, we are proposing a framework, which illuminates a cycle beginning with a service-learning course to the development of a social enterprise and back to the classroom. This framework is built upon an understanding of a sustained community-student-engagement web representing the connections of partnerships aimed at connecting students, community, and faculty. This framework is moving us to reframe faculty roles, create a sustainable web of partnerships, and develop generative-reflective student learners.

 Social enterprises are broadly defined as the use of nongovernmental, market-based approaches to address social issues, and these social enterprise efforts have become an increasingly popular means of funding and supplying social initiatives (Kerlin, 2006).Similar to service-learning, social enterprise models are built upon community initiative and respond to the needs and deficits in the community. Social enterprise represents a vital area of inquiry for service-learning researcher s and practitioners as they begin to question the boundaries of community partnerships and student outcomes set by previous efforts in the field.

**References:** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Austin, J., Stevenson, H., & Wei-Skillern. (2006). Social and commercial entrepreneurship: Same, different, or both. //Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 30//(1), 1-22.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Cushman, E. (September, 2002). Sustainable service learning programs. //College Composition and Communication, 54//(1), 40-65.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Eyler, J., & Giles, D. (1999). //Where’s the learning in service-learning//? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Kerlin, J. (2006). Social enterprise in the United States and Europe: Understanding and learning from differences. //Voluntas,// //17//, 247-263.

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