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17 Social issues Resources
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A New Template for Funding Philanthropy
ashoka.org— — This note describes Ashoka’s model and efforts to develop funding for social entrepreneurship, engaging collaboration among businesses, government, non-profits, foundations and individuals.
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Bakery With a Conscience: Dancing Deer Bakery gives back
feedroom.businessweek.com— — “Dancing Deer Bakery in Boston has found a winning recipe for entrepreneurial success. It’s making money for its founder, employees, and charitable organizations”
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Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein
blog.guykawasaki.com— — “David Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. He recently updated this book, and it’s now available for the first time in paperback”
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Using Renewable Energy at Your Business
businessweek.com— — “Alex Perera, director of the Green Power Market Development Group, talks to BW Smart Answers Columnist Karen E. Klein about practical ways that small business owners can take advantage of on-site wind- and solar-power generation”
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Fighting Poverty with Entrepreneurship
businessweek.com— — “Smart Answers columnist Karen E. Klein talks to Trickle Up president Bill Abrams about alleviating poverty through entrepreneurship”
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Resources: The Revolution Begins
fastcompany.com— — “Let’s talk about your butt—specifically, what it’s sitting on. Chances are, your chair is an unholy medley of polyvinyl chloride and hazardous chemicals that drift into your lungs each time you shift your weight.”
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Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
ted.com— — “Jimmy Wales assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating, and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future.”
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Experimental Entrepreneurship: Removing the 'Tin Cup Dependencies'
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Although it has one of the most dynamic economies in Africa, Botswana also has one of the world’s highest known rates of HIV-AIDS infection.”
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Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child
ted.com— — “Nicholas Negroponte lays out the details of his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. Speaking just days after relinquishing his post as director of the MIT Media Lab”
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Creating a Sustainable Business among South Africa's Poor 'One Bite at a Time'
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Two years ago, Polak founded The Khayelitsha Cookie Co., which now employs 11 women from the sprawling shantytown to bake high-end cookies and brownies that are distributed to top hotels, restaurants and coffeehouses throughout South Africa”
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Getting Credit for a Novel Approach to Offsetting Auto Emissions
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “When Wharton professor Karl Ulrich began thinking about ways to compensate for the pollution he caused in everyday life
- including auto emissions -he came up with a novel idea, which he eventually pitched to the 41 students in his “Problem Solving, Design and System Improvement” class” -
Bottom-Up Economics
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“Iqbal Quadir is best known as the founder of GrameenPhone, Bangladesh’s largest phone company in terms of subscribers.”
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Missouri Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative
international-rural-network.org— — “Interest is growing in rural entrepreneurship, but there is much to be learned about what communities can do to increase the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity”
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Social Entrepreneurs: Playing the Role of Change Agents in Society
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Ian MacMillan, director of Wharton’s Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, defines social entrepreneurship this way: “It’s a process whereby the creation of new business enterprise leads to social wealth enhancement so that both society and the entrepreneur benefit.””
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New Definitions of Social Entrepreneurship: Free Eye Exams and Wheelchair Drivers
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Social organizations increasingly look to business for ways to make the world a better place, but it has not been easy for the growing social entrepreneurship movement to bridge the divide between doing good and doing well, according to J. Gregory Dees, an authority on this type of enterprise. ”
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VillageReach Measures Its Success in Smiles
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “During the devastating floods that swept through Africa back in 2000, Blaise Judja-Sato traveled to Mozambique to assist in the country’s relief efforts”
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Global Sustainability and the Creative Destruction of Industries
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“The article offers a look at the correlation between global sustainability and creative destruction in corporate performances.”