| Entrepreneurship is viewed as the greatest sources of societal productivity (Spinosa, Flores, & Dreyfus, 1999), and recently social entrepreneurship has become an increasingly viable method for not-for-profit organizations to garner profit through implementing community enhancing programs (Hopkins, 2005, Morial, 2006; Wickham, 2005).;Literature suggests that psychological capital has an impact on an administrators' ability to implement programs but few studies have investigated the relationship between the not-for-profit administrators' psychological capital and their ability to initiate social venture programs (Jensen & Luthans, 2006; Olson, & Bosserman, 2001).;This dissertation study developed a theoretical framework based on Luthans, Youssef and Avolio's (2007) psychological capital research. The research question and hypotheses presents additional understanding of the not-for-profit administrators' ability to initiate social venture programs.;This quantitative research examines the relationship between psychological capital, education, civic networking, gender and social venture initiation. The Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) and social venture survey instrument were distributed to 416 Urban League administrators.;Descriptive analysis and multiple regressions were employed to test the hypotheses and answer the research question. Research indicated that psychological capital, and the mediating variables education and civic networking, hold significant influence in social venture program initiation. |
