How to change the world
First published 2003
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"What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up - and remake the world for the better."
"How to Change the World tells the stories of these individuals - many in the United States, others in countries from Brazil to Hungary - providing an In Search of Excellence for the nonprofit sector. In America, one man, J. B. Schramm, has helped thousands of low-income high school students get into college.
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In South Africa, one woman, Veronica Khosa, developed a home-based care model for AIDS patients that changed government health policy. In Brazil, Fabio Rosa helped bring electricity to hundreds of thousands of remote rural residents.
Another American, James Grant, is credited with saving 25 million lives by leading and "marketing" a global campaign for immunization.
Yet another, Bill Drayton, created a pioneering foundation, Ashoka, that has funded and supported these social entrepreneurs and over a thousand like them, leveraging the power of their ideas across the globe." --Jacket.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- David Bornstein
- First published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780195138054