>> Production funding and educational outreach for Biz Kids is provided by a coalition of America's credit unions, where people are worth more than money.

A complete list of individual credit union funders is available at wxxi.org.

>> Every day, America's credit unions help members with their financial needs and with programs like Invest in America.

It's only fitting that credit unions support Biz Kids because financial education is what we do.

Learn more at lovemycreditunion.org.

>> Social Entrepreneurs, take one.

>> It's not always about money.

>> But we're Biz Kids.

>> Yeah, but it's not always about the bottom line.

>> What's she talking about?

>> I'm talking about success.

>> Well, yeah.

That's what we're all about.

>> But there are different ways to measure success.

>> Like with a ruler?

>> No.

>> A scale?

>> No.

>> Oh, like with a Tatsui IR 1000 spectrometer with multichannel detector ray and titanium casing?

>> Uh... >> ♪ When making money is the aim ♪ These kids they bring their game ♪ They're the Biz Kids Can you dig it?

♪ They know what's up and let you know ♪ Just how to make that dough ♪ They're the Biz Kids Right on ♪ So learn a little more about bringing money through the door ♪ They're the Biz Kids Right on.

♪ >> There are thousands of great causes all over the world.

Just look around.

>> Diseases that need cures.

>> Shelter for the homeless.

>> Reversing environmental damage.

The list goes on and on.

>> And they all need attention, dedication, and financial support.

>> They come in various forms.

>> Like volunteers.

>> Philanthropists... >> And then there's a social entrepreneur.

Now, that's a special kind of breed.

>> They take the skills and abilities of an entrepreneur and use them to help out the community.

>> They measure success not by the bottom line, but by the impact they have on the community, the world.

>> They use the classic structure of a regular business.

>> But that's just where it starts.

You might say they make businesses that's more than just business.

>> Is that a Biz Kid that's more than a Biz Kid?

>> A biscuit?

>> A biz kid, or like a biscuit?

>> Biscuit?

>> Biz Kid.

>> Biscuit.

>> Us or like the food?

>> Like us.

>> A biscuit.

>> A Biz Kid!

>> Ah.

>> And now we hit the streets to find out if Biz Kids know what is a social entrepreneur.

>> A social entrepreneur?

>> I don't know, maybe tries to find new ways of investing money?

>> I would think that would be somebody who is in the business... >> Someone who is in the business to help people.

>> I would love to do that, start a company to help people.

>> Oh, yeah, what she said!

>> We're Richard's Rwanda, and we're making a difference.

>> ♪ V is very, very extraordinary... ♪ >> I'm Jessica Markowitz, and I started Richard's Rwanda.

Richard's Rwanda is a group for girls supporting girls in Rwanda who suffered from the genocide in 1994.

It was 100 days long, and many youth lost their parents.

These girls are victims of the genocide, and we raise money for their school fees, their school uniforms, and school material.

>> With our art projects, we're going to send them glue, paper, pencils, and feathers so they can do art projects to send back to us to show how they're feeling or what they're... what life's like in Africa.

>> So this is Richard.

I met Richard in Seattle when I hosted him, and he was truly my inspiration to start Richard's Rwanda.

He is a man who was born in Rwanda.

I got to get to know him and hear about the stories of the genocide.

And as I heard about them, I decided that something needed to be done.

I started Richard's Rwanda last year, and ten girls joined and we started to fundraise.

>> Hi, my name is Nia, and I'm the director of communications.

I make press releases.

>> I'm Dayon, and I'm a fundraiser.

>> I'm Ani Schrader and I'm the secretary of Richard's Rwanda.

>> I'm Vava, and I'm a fundraiser.

>> We had a fundraiser at a restaurant called the Pink Door.

>> At this fundraiser I learned that it's really good to just take a risk and ask people you know who could help you with a fundraiser.

>> We raised over $1,800 >> The cost for one Rwandan girl to go to school for one year is $40.

$10, $20, $30, $40.

$30 for school tuition, school fees, and books, and $10 for a school uniform.

We need to continue raising money, because one of our main goals right now is to build a school.

To raise money, we sell things like... >> Hats, beanies and pants!

>> Although it does involve money, the money is not going to us.

It's going to those who are in need, the girls in Rwanda that we're supporting.

So we know we have been successful because we have had a chance to buy them school uniforms, school materials, books, pencils, pens, anything they need.

I bring money to Richard, and he purchases whatever they need.

So we know we are making a difference in our world because we are receiving letters back from the girls we are working with.

And this gives us hope, and hope for them also.

"Dear Jessica, my name is Rmaza Ester, and I am so glad that you initiated this program."

>> "Dear Ani, my name is Mcmbazi Florence, I'm in the fifth grade.

I thank you..." >> "Dear Nia, My name is Guerra Bolise.

I am in fifth grade.

I'm so happy that children who are my age have shown so much love to us."

>> "I thank you so much because you are helping us to develop and prosper in our lives."

>> "...and trying to change our lives from bad to good.

I remember you distributing things and..." >> "Here in our country, education for the younger girls is often neglected.

I would like to send my sincere greetings and thank you, and hope we will be able to see each other one time."

>> Well I chose to get involved because I thought it was a great opportunity to help people, girls just like us outside of the US, who are less fortunate than us.

>> It makes me feel happy that I have a chance to help, because many youths say, "Well I want to help, but I don't have the opportunity."

So what I'm trying to do is to let other girls and youth have the opportunity to help.

So I'm happy that I am one of them.

>> I'm looking down.

I see a whole world of social entrepreneurs.

It's truly amazing.

I think I'm getting a little space sick.

>> You might be thinking, "I've heard of a lot of people who've donated a lot of money to help benefit others.

Aren't they social entrepreneurs?"

>> Well, that's a good question.

A lot of people donate money to organizations or efforts to benefit others.

This is called philanthropy.

>> They fight disease.

>> Build homes for the homeless.

>> Make libraries.

>> Well, aren't they social entrepreneurs?

>> Well, social entrepreneurs and philanthropists might have the same goal of helping people, but there is a difference.

A philanthropist gives away money that they already have.

>> A social entrepreneur starts a business offering goods or services people can buy, which raises money for a cause.

>> This business is structured so that its income or operation benefits its chosen causes.

>> It doesn't rely on the giving of others.

>> Instead, it is the business that does the giving.

>> So if you want to help people and you've got the money, become a philanthropist.

>> But if you haven't got the money but you've got the drive, become a social entrepreneur and start a business that helps the community.

Got it?

>> Got it.

>> Got it.

>> Got it.

>> Did we get it?

We got it?

>> School lunches are prepared for undernourished children of needy families.

>> The free public library built through the philanthropy of a wealthy citizen.

>> Transportation to free clinics.

>> Here is a work which lays the foundation for a new generation of good citizens.

>> We're social entrepreneurs!

>> We got the social entrepreneur part, but what's a philanthropist?

>> A philanthropist is... >> Somebody that donates money.

>> I have donated money.

I'm a philanthropist.

>> A philanthropist is somebody who has more.

>> And gives back so that others can have the same.

>> Which is to give to those who have need.

>> Okay, so I think I know the difference between a philanthropist, who is someone who donates time or money to charity, or a social entrepreneur, which is someone who sets up a business to help people in their community.

Got it.

>> And sometimes they go hand in hand.

>> What?

>> You need a little Room to Read.

>> Dude, I got plenty of room to read.

>> No, Room to Read is about a philanthropist who became a social entrepreneur.

>> Like a book?

>> No, like an organization.

>> Hey, Biz Kid, try doing a fundraiser.

>> Room to Read is an organization that builds schools and gives books and scholarships to girls in third world countries.

And started by John Wood, who has become a close personal friend of all of ours.

>> John Wood is a social entrepreneur.

He identified a need that he was passionate about and he built an organization that worked to provide education for children in developing countries.

>> "Franklin could slide down a riverbank all by himself."

>> Giving children strong educations will bring change in the world for the better.

I'm all for that.

And so are my peers.

>> An auction is a gathering of people with many items that don't already have a price on them.

And the person bids on the item, and the person who bids the highest gets to have the item.

>> That one was designed for a more general crowd.

>> This is the business plan.

We have food we had set up.

We brought the display boards, we had phone numbers of people we needed to call.

And we have invitations when they're going to be ready.

>> You have to ask those that you know for, you know, "Oh, hey, can you donate this?"

"Oh, hey can you help with this."

>> Where we're getting them, how we're picking them up.

>> Organize the guests and the menus.

>> Just all of the details just finished.

>> There's definitely a couple times when we were kind of like, "What did we get ourselves into?"

It was def... it was a lot of work.

>> ...we develop a presentation we give to schools.

>> In John's book he actually talks about the record breaking night of $330,000.

Well, actually at the night, John said, "So do you want to state a goal?

And so he said, "I think you can raise $500,000.

Do you want me to say that that's our goal?"

And I was just sort of overwhelmed, because that's so much money.

And then we said, "Okay, yeah, let's do it."

>> The night of the actual auction was one of the happiest nights, I think, for all of us.

>> Within a matter of ten seconds we had raised $100,000.

>> My face hurt from smiling so much.

>> We raised a ton of money.

>> Our friend had the calculator and was calculating, and he showed the calculator to us, and it said $675,000.

>> So this is a typical library that Room to Read has helped create.

With the money we raised at our auction we can actually fund about 67 of them.

>> When I was growing up in Pennsylvania we had actually a bookmobile that came to our town.

And we think of this kind of as a Nepalese Yak-mobile.

We've got our Yak loaded with books and we're about to head off to go to a secondary school here in Jomsom to deliver about 500 books to help them start their first library.

>> So part of this was learning that we had to reach out to our community and find people that we knew who could really help us help us get our message across to the public.

And thanks to this guy here, our local Biz Kid, he got us on TV.

>> You're watching the Biz Kids television network.

>> It's the adventures of Social Entrepreneur Guy!

>> I won!

>> Now what?

>> I guess we could play again?

>> Yeah, I can't think of anything else to do.

>> Seems like there's something more productive we could be doing.

>> I'll say!

>> Who are you?!

>> I'm Social Entrepreneur Guy!

>> Is that an action figure?

>> I'm a positive action figure.

And man, do you guys need it bad.

Look at you, sitting there, drinking soda all day.

>> I suppose we could take the cans out.

Wait, we could take out even more cans.

>> More cans?

What are you talking about?

>> Think about it.

All the nerdy kids at school, they sit in their basement, play video games, and drink all their soda.

That's a lot of cans.

>> We could make a route, collect all those cans, and get all that aluminum.

>> Now you're thinking positively.

>> Another great example of social entrepreneurs!

>> Well that's some kid of super-duper hero dance or something.

But here's a real-life superhero-- Dr. Mohammed Yunus, who happens to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

He came up with the idea of microloans-- giving poor women all over the world small loans to benefit themselves, their families, and their communities.

Here's his advice for Biz Kids.

>> Everything starts small.

So start something small in your own neighborhood.

Don't worry about the rest of the world.

You can do it within your reach right there.

It may be small, but it will be significant.

Because if you can find a solution to one person, you multiply by any number of persons, and those number will be benefitted.

>> Social entrepreneurs can help people on the other side of the world, or in their own community.

>> Ah!

Ah!

Wait, okay, okay.

Hi, I'm Taylor, and these... these... shoot, sorry!

Sorry.

Hi, I'm Taylor, and these are just a few of my bears that are on their way to help kids with cancer.

Taybear is a non-profit company that works to give teddy bears to children with cancer and chronic blood disorders to help ease them through some of the hardest times of their lives.

It all started about ten years ago when I was seven years old.

I was visiting my grandmother in the hospital because she had cancer.

And while I was in the hospital I saw all these children who had cancer as well.

And just seeing how hard it was on them, I knew I needed to do something.

>> Wow!

>> Even though Taybear is a nonprofit charity, it's still a business and I still have to make money in order to buy the bears.

With Junior Achievement I learned all the aspects of running a business-- my finances, how to keep good records.

And that's really helped me with Taybear throughout the years.

>> Thank you, thank you!

>> Well, when I started Taybear, I didn't realize all the aspects of business, until I really started working with it.

I buy a bunch of plain hair clips that are unpainted, just plain clips.

And I get together Girl Scouts and churches and schools and anybody that wants to help.

And we organize what we call hair clip painting parties.

Today I'm here with my volleyball club and some of my friends, painting hair clips.

For every two sets of hair clips I sell, one child gets a Taybear.

And once we sell the hair clips the money we get from the clips goes to buy the teddy bears for the kids with cancer.

Over the last ten years in Taybear, I've been able to make about $180,000 total.

We've given out about 21,000 bears, and 4,500 more were just ordered.

>> So I have the perfect girl who would love this little teddy bear.

>> It's such a small thing to give a child, but at the same time it's just such a huge idea of comfort.

It's something they can hold onto when they're getting shots and when they're going through chemo.

>> Hi, Stephanie.

Hi.

This is Taylor.

>> Hi, nice to meet you.

I think success isn't just in the numbers.

It's... for me just knowing that my teddy bear made one child happier is success on its own.

>> Now, that's a Biz Kid.

>> A world of social ent... >> Find a cause, close to your heart.

Make a plan.

Find resources.

Take action.

Give back to your community.

>> I've got it!

I'm going to become a social entrepreneur.

>> Me too!

Me too!

>> It's the adventures of Social Entrepreneur Guy!

>> Hurry up, before somebody shows up.

>> I'm waiting for inspiration, okay?

>> Look, if we don't hurry up... see?

It's too late!

>> It's not too late if you start right now.

>> Start what?

>> Start your career as a social entrepreneur!

Find a cause!

>> Where'd he go, where'd he go?

There he is!

>> Finding a cause!

>> I'm Katie.

>> And I'm Julia.

>> And I'm Sam.

>> And we started a charitable run club.

>> And we're Biz Kids!

>> We were inspired to start Running for a Reason after our young cousin died with hospice care at home.

We saw how helpful hospice care was to our cousin at the end of her life, and to her family.

>> Our club uses the team spirit and team dynamic to fundraise.

When you get a group of kids together out on the track, you get this great spirit.

And we thought, why not apply that to fundraising?

So we approached local donors and asked them if they could help sponsor us.

>> This is the bakery where I work called Douce France.

>> Katie, Julia and Sam have asked me for a couple things-- pastries and donations.

>> Over the past four years with other donations combined we've raised over $6,800.

We collect the donations and then sell raffle tickets for one dollar at school, and in our community.

We then have a bake sale and raffle biannually to fundraise.

>> With a charitable venture, it's important to see where your money is going, and what you're spending.

With a chart like this, you can see what money is going in, and what you're spending.

>> When it comes to charity, little ripples can add up to a big change.

>> Biz Kids!

>> Egg, egg, egg!

>> No!

We are going to let this egg hatch, then we can feed our cave clan forever.

I'm a social entrepreneur.

>> Well I'm hungry.

Mmm, this is going to be good eatin'.

Mmm, yum.

Yum, yum.

>> Neanderthals never learn.

>> Entrepreneur Guy!

>> You got your power back on?

>> Yeah, this morning.

Is your house leaking like this too?

>> Totally.

My mom said it will be dripping like this for weeks.

>> What?

Why?

>> That was a huge storm.

Everybody's out looking for repair crews but they're all booked up.

>> Booked up?

What are we supposed to do, just sit around?

>> Guys!

Now is not the time to ask what your community can do for you.

It's time to ask what you can do for your community.

>> Like what?

>> I'm glad you asked.

Do you have any tools in the garage?

>> Yeah, we've got lots of them.

>> Then get your tools, get your friends, and let's get this place fixed up.

>> Okay.

>> You're watching the Biz Kids television net... >> If you two galoots had thought for one second about being social entrepreneurs instead of robbing people, well you know what?

Things might have worked out a little bit better for you.

But now you're going downtown, up the river.

>> To the big house?

>> A guest of the state.

>> The joint?

>> The can?

>> The lock up?

>> The hoosegow?

>> The hoosegow-- I like that.

>> Prison?

>> The slammer?

>> Pokey?

>> I've had enough of this.

I've got to get a cup of coffee.

>> Some Joe?

>> Some mud?

>> Find a way to help.

Brian, what is it?

>> I was thinking about becoming a so... social... >> A social entrepreneur?

Helping people, Brian.

You should try it.

Very rewarding.

Maybe even save a life.

( singing in an african language ) >> My childhood was really so wonderful.

Of course, as a child I don't think of anything bad and just eat and play, go the next day to the school just like that.

Until one day when our village was bombed.

The government aircraft come in dropping bombs, and then just, like, killing people.

And we have soldiers coming in shooting and kidnapping.

And that was, like, when we were forced to run out of the village.

You walk for long distance to be able to go to somewhere safe.

I walked for three weeks from southern Sudan to Kenya.

I came to America in 2003.

The way of coming to America was not easy.

How can I be happy when I'm the only girl here?

What about these thousand girls?

Those who are still remaining in that horrible situation, I don't know, some of them, whether they are alive or whether they are dead.

I'm not happy.

I'm just like one hand which cannot clap.

Can you use your one hand to clap?

No, you know?

I needed the other side so that we can clap.

One day when we go back to Sudan we'll be able to do something.

At that time I said, of course, I'll have to work some miracles here.

And then I started sharing the ideas with some American family friends.

I told them, I said, "You know, I have an idea."

You know, I wanted to bring girls here, and it's safe.

We started now communicating to our friends in Boulder, sending emails and just talking, going all around, talking to people in different churches, synagogues, primary schools, high schools, just telling them the idea.

"Please can you help?

Donate something, it will help.

It will really rescue somebody.

It will rescue a life."

And then with our part, the CSAW, we do a lot of fundraising.

>> My name is Jane Sovndal, I'm the director of CSAW.

I met Micklina, who's the president, about three years ago, and she had just formed the organization and was looking for volunteers.

>> CSAW is stands for Community of Sudanese and American Women and Men.

>> We solicit private donations, we sell greeting cards by an artist here in town by the name of Evie Bashoff.

She does pastels, pastel portraits of the Sudanese community.

We have event fundraisers that we do.

And mainly just private donations.

>> So far we have helped 14 girls in Boulder, Colorado.

And I'm so glad that they are able to adjust to the life here.

But it still is not easy.

Even myself, I'm still in the process of adjusting.

But at least they are here, and it's safe.

>> Oh Micklina is so great, and I like her.

She's like a role model to us.

>> We really respect her as our sister.

>> I'm happy because I'm with these girls, because I'm in the U.S., and I'm with Micklina.

And I'm happy because I'll do something, and I'll go back and help people.

>> I know there are so many children in Sudan and in parts of Africa, they are suffering.

So I'm going to...

I need to help them too, as Micklina tried to help us, and the rest of the volunteers who are helping us here in the U.S. >> It's just, like, amazing how all these people are coming together and just trying to put their efforts just to help.

( singing in an African language ) >> To some extent I could say we have achieved.

We have achieved some of the dreams.

>> The world is our neighborhood, and a social entrepreneur is a good neighbor.

>> And now it's time for another Biz Kids Biz Quiz.

If you answered D, congratulations, you're thinking like a Biz Kid.

Now get out there and do some good, would you?

>> There are a lot of examples of business principles that can be used to solve problems and help people.

>> Being involved as a social entrepreneur is exciting, and the payoff can be very rewarding.

>> As we've said, it's a different way to measure success.

Give it a shot.

>> Is this a Biz Kid Challenge?

>> Sure.

Take a look in your neighborhood and your community.

Can you identify a need that's not being met?

>> Something that needs organization and hard work to find a sustainable solution.

>> Can you handle it?

You won't know if you don't try.

>> Get going, Biz Kids!

>> Oh, I am so out.

>> Like, for real.

>> I am out of here.

>> Take us to your leader.

>> Super Entrepreneur Guy!

>> All right, so now you've heard some of our stories, and we want to here some of yours.

>> Maybe you or a friend have started your own business or thought of some ideas to help the community.

>> Yeah we want to hear about those.

So go to BizKids.com and share the good news.

>> Who knows, maybe you'll end up right here on the show.

>> Well, not exactly right here, but yeah, on the show.

>> How about right here?

>> Mmm... no, not really.

>> How about right here?

>> No, not there.

>> How about right here?

>> Production funding and educational outreach for Biz Kids is provided by a coalition of America's credit unions, where people are worth more than money.

A complete list of individual credit union funders is available at wxxi.org.

>> Every day, America's credit unions help members with their financial needs and with programs like Invest in America.

It's only fitting that credit unions support Biz Kids because financial education is what we do.

Learn more at lovemycreditunion.org.

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