Social Enterprise - Book Excerpts

Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being

The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur

By Jonathan C. Lewis

In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.

Peers Inc

By Robin Chase 1

Peers Inc explores how age-old concepts of capitalism, consumerism, and even ownership are taking on new meaning in today’s marketplace of the "sharing economy."

Smartcuts

By Shane Snow

Smartcuts analyzes the smart shortcuts various successful people take via "lateral thinking" so that all workers and thinkers can be encouraged to work smarter.

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New Frontiers of Philanthropy

By Lester M. Salamon

New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing examines the potential impact of contemporary philanthropy in providing new, much-needed models of social and environmental problem-solving.