How to Change the World

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How to CHANGE WORLD Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes Dávid 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 telis the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals- many in the United States, others in countries from Brazil to Hungary-providing an In Search ofExcellence for the nonprofit sector. In America, one man, ]. B. Schramm, has helped thousands of low-income high school students get into college. In South Africa, one woman, Veronica Khosa, developed a homebased care model for AIDS patients that changed government health policy. In Brazil, Fábio Rosa helped bring electricity to hundreds of thousands of remote rural residents. Another American, James Grant, is credited with saving 25 millión lives by leading and "marketing"... Tovább

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How to CHANGE WORLD Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes Dávid 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 telis the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals- many in the United States, others in countries from Brazil to Hungary-providing an In Search ofExcellence for the nonprofit sector. In America, one man, ]. B. Schramm, has helped thousands of low-income high school students get into college. In South Africa, one woman, Veronica Khosa, developed a homebased care model for AIDS patients that changed government health policy. In Brazil, Fábio Rosa helped bring electricity to hundreds of thousands of remote rural residents. Another American, James Grant, is credited with saving 25 millión lives by leading and "marketing" a global campaign for immunization. Yet another, Bili 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. These extraordinary stories highlight a massive transformation that is going largely unreported by the média: Around the world, the fastest-growing segment of society is the nonprofit sector, as millions of ordinaiy people-social entrepreneurs-are increasingly Vissza