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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 fascinating stories of these remarkable 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. 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. These extraordinary stories highlight a massive transformation that is going largely unreported by the media: Around the world, the fastest-growing segment of society is the nonprofit sector, as millions of ordinary people--social entrepreneurs--are increasingly stepping in to solve the problems where governments and bureaucracies have failed. How to Change the World shows, as its title suggests, that with determination and innovation, even a single person can make a surprising difference. For anyone seeking to make a positive mark on the world, this will be both an inspiring read and an invaluable handbook.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1. Restless People(p. 1)
• 2. From Little Acorns Do Great Trees Grow(p. 11)
• 3. The Light in My Head Went On: Fabio Rosa, Brazil: Rural Electrification(p. 20)
• 4. The Fixed Determination of an Indomitable Will: Florence Nightingale, England: Nursing(p. 40)
• 5. A Very Significant Force: Bill Drayton, United States: The Bubble(p. 47)
• 6. Why Was I Never Told about This?(p. 61)
• 7. Ten--Nine--Eight--Childline! Jeroo Billimoria, India: Child Protection(p. 68)
• 8. The Role of the Social Entrepreneur(p. 90)
• 9. "What Sort of a Mother Are You?" Erzsebet Szekeres, Hungary: Assisted Living for the Disabled(p. 98)
• 10. Are They Possessed, Really Possessed, by an Idea?(p. 117)
• 11. If the World Is to Be Put in Order: Vera Cordeiro, Brazil: Reforming Healthcare(p. 126)
• 12. In Search of Social Excellence(p. 146)
• 13. The Talent Is Out There: J. B. Schramm, United States: College Access(p. 159)
• 14. New Opportunities, New Challenges(p. 178)
• 15. Something Needed to Be Done: Veronica Khosa, South Africa: Care for AIDS Patients(p. 183)
• 16. Four Practices of Innovative Organizations(p. 200)
• 17. This Country Has to Change: Javed Abidi, India: Disability Rights(p. 209)
• 18. Six Qualities of Successful Social Entrepreneurs(p. 233)
• 19. Morality Must March with Capacity: James Grant, United States: The Child Survival Revolution(p. 242)
• 20. Blueprint Copying(p. 256)
• 21. Conclusion: The Emergence of the Citizen Sector(p. 264)
• Epilogue(p. 280)
• Notes(p. 283)
• Resource Guide(p. 303)
• Selected Readings(p. 309)
• Index(p. 313)

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Journalist Bornstein (The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank) profiles nine indomitable champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city Washington, D.C. As these nine grew influential when their ingenious ideas proved ever more widely successful, they came to the attention of Ashoka, an organization that sponsors a fellows program to foster social innovation by finding so-called social entrepreneurs to support. As Bornstein interviewed these and many other Ashoka fellows, he saw patterns in the ways they fought to solve their specifically local problems. To demonstrate the commonality among experiences as diverse as a Hungarian mother striving to provide a fuller life for her handicapped son and a South African nurse starting a home-care system for AIDS patients, he presents useful unifying summaries of "four practices of innovative organizations" and "six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs." Bornstein implies that his subjects are in the tradition of Florence Nightingale and Gandhi; the inspiring portraits that emerge from his in-depth reporting on the environments in which individual programs evolved (whether in politically teeming India or amid the expansive grasslands of Brazil) certainly show these unstoppable entrepreneurs as extraordinarily savvy community development experts. In adding up the vast number of current nongovernmental organizations and their corps of agents of positive change, Bornstein aims to persuade that, "without a doubt, the past twenty years has produced more social entrepreneurs than terrorists.". Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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David Bornstein specializes in writing about social innovations. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times. He lives in New York with his wife, Abigail, and son, Elijah