Scotty Jue

Hello everyone!

My name is Scott Jue and I will be graduating this fall with a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and Entrepreneurship. As a business major, we are taught to maximize profit and to maximize shareholder value. However, for the past few years I have explored the other spectrum of business, which is the field of social entrepreneurship. Through various experiences and learning opportunities, social entrepreneurship has become a passion of mine as it aligns my values with my career goals. I strongly believe we can use business as a means to help others and to improve society.

If you are a businessman in today’s world, you have to wear profit-maximizing glasses all the time. As a result, only thing you see in the world are the profit enhancing opportunities. Important problems that we face in the world cannot be addressed because profit-maximizing eyes cannot see them. Thus, many of the problems we have had for hundreds of years such as poverty have yet to be solved.

I can tell you very emphatically that in terms of human capability there is no difference between a poor person and a very privileged person. All human beings are packed with unlimited potential. Poor people are no exception to this rule. But the world around them never gave them the opportunity to know that each of them is carrying a wonderful gift in them. The gift remains unknown and unwrapped. Our challenge is to help the poor unwrap their gift. Poverty is not created by the poor. It is created by the system.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on people. Once you fall outside the system, it works against you. It makes it very difficult to return to the system. That is where Microfinance comes in. Microfinance is the solution to help people return to the system as it gives poor people access to essential financial services such as loans.

Majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurship, microfinance seemed to be a perfect culmination of my education and my value to help others. Therefore, Sasha and I decided to re-establish Microfinance Brigades here at Chapman University. As Co-President I have been working hard to ensure the success of our organization, so I encourage you to visit our official donation page and show your support. Additionally, I urge everyone to support not only our organization but the whole microfinance movement as it is an effective and sustainable method to alleviate poverty.

Please join me in showing the world that business does not always have to be viewed through profit-maximizing glasses; that it can be used as a means to help others and improve the standard of living across the world. Together we can make a difference!

Thank you for your support!