Ethan Draddy—Social Entrepreneur, not!

Ethan likes to think of what he does for the Boy Scouts as social entrepreneurship. Now Wikipedia would tell us that:

Social entrepreneurship means identifying or recognizing a social problem and using entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a social venture to achieve a desired social change.

Essential qualities of social entrepreneurs are leadership, management ability, and team building.  Qualities that come into question with Ethan, the more you get to know him.  Although the program and organization of the Boy Scouts of America can, and is, used to address many of our country’s social problems--one person does not set the program.  The national executive board determines and approves the program, quality standards and operating procedures for the Boy Scouts of America.

We believe, after years of observing Ethan, that he uses this concept to justify to himself and others doing things his way.  Not following the rules or making them up as he goes.  When questioned by the bureaucrats in Irving he just tells them he is being innovative. 

At number 6:  Ethan the great social entrepreneur.

Has Ethan really done anything very innovative here in Baltimore?

·         The report to the State of Maryland is an old idea.

·         The Big Ethan Shows are nothing more than Council Camporalls.

·         We covered money management in a past post. 

·         Signing up bulk membership in inner-city schools is nothing new.

·         His innovative ideas for our long-term camping program have resulted in one of our summer camps closing this year.

Be ready for a great deal of unnecessary disruptive change in the name of social entrepreneurship New York.