Creating Good Work : The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build A Healthy Economy

Creating Good Work is a practical guide book, that recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the world they encounter. While social entrepreneurship continues to grow by leaps and bounds over the last decade, practitioners have begun to realize that no one model can be used for every type of social venture. Be it a start-up for enhancing the educational opportunities a community has access to or a program to address the sustainability of a region's environment, each type of social venture comes with its own hardships and pitfalls on its path to creating a better tomorrow. Creating Good Work is a practical resource that goes beyond storytelling. It is a rich guide book recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the world they encounter. Including contributions from leading names at such social ventures as Benetech, Brac-USA, KivaRoot Capital, Skoll Foundation, 7th Generation, and YouthBuild, many of whom have been recognized by organizations like the Skoll Foundation and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as being among the world's best. The lessons these leaders share contained in this volume are an asset to any social entrepreneur looking for new and innovative ways to have a positive impact on change the world around them, be they at their initial concept phase or a successful venture looking to expand their sphere of influence "While social entrepreneurship continues to grow by leaps and bounds over the last decade, practitioners have begun to realize that no one model can be used for every type of social venture. Be it a start-up for enhancing the educational opportunities a community has access to or a program to address the sustainability of a region's environment, each type of social venture comes with its own hardships and pitfalls on its path to creating a better tomorrow. Creating Good Work is a practical resource that goes beyond storytelling. It is a rich guide book recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the world they encounter. Including contributions from leading names at such social ventures as Benetech, Brac-USA, KivaRoot Capital, Skoll Foundation, 7th Generation, and YouthBuild, many of whom have been recognized by organizations like the Skoll Foundation and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as being among the world's best. The lessons these leaders share contained in this volume are an asset to any social entrepreneur looking for new and innovative ways to have a positive impact on change the world around them, be they at their initial concept phase or a successful venture looking to expand their sphere of influence."--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Deliberate disruptive design....Pages 9-17 Understanding Social Enterprise....Pages 19-28 How change happens and why it sometimes doesn’t....Pages 29-37 Legal issues for social entrepreneurs....Pages 39-52 Social marketing: Influencing behavior for social impact....Pages 53-59 Measuring the impact of social entrepreneurship....Pages 61-66 Evaluating complex change....Pages 67-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Catalyzing growth....Pages 77-86 Seeding the roots of microfinance....Pages 87-93 The financial cooperative movement....Pages 95-99 From competition to collaboration: Toward a new framework for entrepreneurship....Pages 101-115 Building green economy thinking....Pages 117-123 Building fundamental principles....Pages 125-136 Raising the learning curve....Pages 137-142 Technology serving humanity....Pages 143-150 Vapor technology and giant rats....Pages 151-155 Access to a better life....Pages 157-166 Wellness is more than not being sick....Pages 167-172 Ending torture, now....Pages 173-183 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Video advocacy at the leading edge of human rights....Pages 185-190 Onward....Pages 191-193 Back Matter....Pages 195-220