| 摘要: | 在台灣非營利組織的發展十分蓬勃，關注各項公眾議題或事件，舉凡教育、環保、醫療、食農及弱勢就業等，但隨著近年社會需求超越了社會資源的成長速度，非營利組織開始面對一個頗具規模的競爭性的市場，加上經濟不景氣與政府政策的改變，進而使其發展面臨眾大的挑戰，為解決此問題，無不透過組織變革或尋求轉型契機，使能永續經營發展，如同活水湧流，繼續為台灣的未來奮鬥，讓下一代擁有更好的環境。
為解決此一困境，社會企業因此油然而生，藉由商業手段來達成特定社會服務的目的；在此之中，又以「公益創投的獨立企業型社會企業」，其所能發揮的公益功能與其他類型之社會企業有頗明顯的差異。其是以投資取代捐贈，提供高度透明的投資架構，結合自我專業經驗及人脈，為非營利組織或社會企業建構出一個完善的創業、投資生態，藉由開發可改變社會的創新商業模式及投資機會，加速其的形成與發展，使其能自給自足，永續經營持續擴展。因此本文以公益創投之個案研究，藉以瞭解其主要之精神、做法與運作模式，探討其對社會企業之影響，讓公益創投定位更加明瞭，也使得公益創投更容易成功幫助社會企業或相關團體、組織創業發展。
In Taiwan, the development of non-profit organizations concerning public issues or events, such as education, ecology, medicine, farming and the disadvantaged groups, has been booming. However, the social needs have exceeded the growth speed of the social resources in the recent years, so the non-profit organizations have started to face a competitive market of quite a scale. In addition to the economic recession and the changes of the government’s strategies, their developments have been facing major challenges. In order to solve these problems, each of them has seek organizational changes or opportunities for transformation for sustainable development, just as the pouring of fresh water to continue fighting for the future of Taiwan and to provide the next generations with a better environment.
With the purpose to solve this predicament, social enterprises have arisen. Specific social service purposes are achieved through commercial approaches. Among them, there is a significant difference between the charity functions of the “venture philanthropy from social enterprises of independent business” and other types of social enterprises. Donations are replaced by investments, while investment structure is highly transparent. It is the integration of self-professionalism and experience with the network of contacts, establishing comprehensive entrepreneurship-investment ecology for the non-profit organizations or social enterprises. Through the development of innovative business models and investment opportunities that may change the society as well as the speeding-up of their formations and developments, the self-sufficient and sustainable operations are still in expansion. Therefore, this study aims to understand the main spirit, approach and operation model through case studies of venture philanthropy. It explores the impacts of the social enterprises, which allow seeing a clearer positioning of venture philanthropy and facilitate an easier success of the venture philanthropy, helping the development of social enterprises or related organizations and organizational entrepreneurships. |
