Think Mission and Beyond: Using Foresight for Social Impact

December 3, 2025

Doreen Bryant-Escobar | 2020

Abstract

Social entrepreneurs are disrupting systems everywhere through their influence and desire to produce meaningful results. Passion for social advocacy without adequate resources can cause the mission to become stagnant over time. Resources exist to ground a venture, but moving beyond the one to five-year life cycle requires additional insights and tools. This project examined social entrepreneurs and explored how a social foresight curriculum can help them imagine a prosperous future and legacy of carrying out their mission as caregivers of social change. The outcome of this inquiry is a twelve-week social foresight curriculum for social entrepreneurs. The value proposition for designing a foresight course for global social entrepreneurs arises from a deep desire to help them make informed decisions about the future of their grassroots endeavors and infrastructures. Social Foresight complements social entrepreneurship in that each contemplates the reality of social events and the impact of societal change. Social Foresight is a passport to the future. Its precepts can equip social entrepreneurs with the preparation skills required to design groundbreaking initiatives.

The Think Mission and Beyond: Using Foresight for Social Impact curriculum encourages applied learning based on theoretical concepts and methodology. Mission, change, impact (MCI) is the fiat of this domain of study. Therefore, course discussions and activities will challenge entrepreneurs to analyze the short and long-term elasticity of their mission, create opportunities to change the social landscape and life cycle of their solutions, and gain impact insight from stakeholders. The imports of a Social Foresight curriculum for social entrepreneurs are far-reaching as it holds the potential to uncover the covert assumptions and values connected with the future. Moreover, it will raise the consciousness of unsuspecting business owners to the insidious and subtle ways through which change reproduces itself in and through their internal and external environments.

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