Ensermu, Mathios (PhD)Abebe, Samuel2018-11-022023-11-042018-11-022023-11-042018-03http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/13667Social entrepreneurship is the practice of responding through transformative, financially sustainable innovations aimed at solving social problems at the nexus of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The performance of social entrepreneurs in Ethiopia is the prim are not deal with their priority of impact in an objective way with their priority of impact an objective way. Besides the subjective way and disaggregated way of explaining these factors, no research is done to the highlight the role of social entrepreneurs to the social and economic development. Hence the objective of this study examines the determinate factors in social entrepreneurs in the case of Selam children village and Eminence Social entrepreneurship. On this research the regression model is conducted to analyze one dependent and five independent variables to evaluate the performance of two social Entrepreneur firms. Multiple regressions resulted from 256 target populations with the sample of 75 respondents, who are employees of the targeted organizations depicted five significant determinant factors for social entrepreneur’s performance: Those are planning, Information communication tools, government promotion strategy, Leadership style & Staff competency according to their contribution towards their impact on performance of social entrepreneur. These determinants factors collectively explain the performance of social entrepreneurs by 68.4% and the assessment showed that leadership style and staff competency were not significant as compared with other variables. Besides, planning, information communication tools and government promotion strategy were statically significant to study. This study highlighted which factors need special attention from different stakeholders with regard to their impact on the significant level of the determining factors in the performance of social entrepreneurs. Key words: - Social entrepreneurs, Performance, Determinate factors, Regression model, Information communication tools, Government promotion strategy, staff competency, leadership style.enSocial entrepreneursPerformanceDeterminate factorsRegression modelInformation communication toolsGovernment promotion strategystaff competency, leadership styleThesis