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"Excellent!" —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times"Order this book and read it immediately...This book gives you some great ways to understand and apply the whole idea of entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship." —Tom Suddes, The Suddes Group, ForImpact.org
"The most essential starter guide to the field I've yet seen." —Change.org
"A great primer of social entrepreneurship, trends, and a look into the future." —Encouragizers
"This book is an excellent way to get a snapshot of everything going on in the Social Entrepreneurship space." —RisingPyramid.org
"Practical offer[s] concrete examples of the challenges faced by social ventures and shedding light on the issues that make social enterprises different from traditional businesses." —NextBillion.net
"The first to give an excellent overview of what being a social entrepreneur is all about. You'll learn what the difference is between a social entrepreneurship and a regular business venture and traditional non-profits. If you think you want to innovate unique social solutions to unique social problems for your encore career, this is the place to start." —Lin Schreiber, founder of RevolutionizeRetirement.com
Overview
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before—a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world.
David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, was hailed by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times as "a bible in the field" and ...