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A number of books (available at WLS) relevant to our purpose, on social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and other methods to create social impact.
Creating a world without poverty Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism, by Micro-financier Prof Yunus, starts out describing the joint venture with Dannon as the first social venture, as a self-sustaining enterprise where no dividends are paid, and aim to do good for society and serve the poor. The first part of the book introduces the notion of social business, a subset of social entrepreneurship that aims to fight poverty via financially sustainable model, in 2 forms: either making products that directly help fight poverty, or being a business owned by the poor, so that profits will be feed back into the community and the poor. This model will have the potential to transform the world, while govt, corporate lobbying, or nonprofit orgs are limited by many existing barriers. The remaining 3 parts of the book focus on the Grameen Bank activities and history.
Forces for Good: Lessons learned in operating non-profit orgs, of how to make lasting impact. Their findings, http://www.forcesforgood.net/findings.html are High-impact nonprofits build social movements and fields; they transform business, government, other nonprofits, and individuals; and they change the world around them. In the end, six patterns crystallized into the form presented here—the six practices that high-impact nonprofits use to achieve extraordinary impact. These nonprofits:
The Foundation: http://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/publications/thefoundation intro with Warren Buffet's gesture. Themes: 1. effectiveness and efficiency, 2. public policy, design of incentives,
Change Philanthropy Alicia Korten on how philanthropy can enhance its relevance in the arena of social justice, to focus on changing the rules rather than dumping money into services. (not in WLS) |
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