Resources and Links
On social innovation and sustainable development:
- Stanford Social Innovation Review - magazine and website, published by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems
- Rediscovering Social Innovation, SSIR, Fall 2008
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The Elusive Quest for Growth (book), William Easterly, 2002
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Development As Freedom (book), Amartya Sen, 2000
On social business:
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Social Edge - a global online discussion forum connecting social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector
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Everyone a Changemaker (PDF), Bill Drayton, Winter 2001
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The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship (PDF), J. Gregory Dees, 20 May 2001
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Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs (book), Muhammed Yunnus, 2010
Books every social entrepreneur should read:
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More Than Good Intentions - Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel , 2011
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The Necessary Revolution - Peter Senge, 2010
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ReWork - Jason Fried, 2010
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Building Social Business - Muhammad Yunus, 2010
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The World That Changes The World: How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship are Transforming the Social Ecosystem - Edited by Willie Cheng and Sharifah Mohamed, 2010
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The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman, 2010
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Rule of Thumb: How to Stay Productive and Inspired Even in the Most Turbulent Times - Alan M. Webber, 2010
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The Blue Sweater - Jacqueline Novogratz, 2009
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What I wish I knew When I was 20 - Tina Seelig, 2009
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The Social Entrepreneur - Andrew Mawson, 2008
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The Power of Unreasonable People - John Elkington, 2008
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Out of Poverty - Paul Polak, 2008
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Street Smarts - Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, 2008
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A Billion Bootstraps - Phil Smith and Eric Thurman, 2007
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How to Change the World - David Bornstein, 2007
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Good to Great - Jim Collins, 2006
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Mindset - Carol S. Dweck, 2006
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Growing A Business - Paul Hawken 1987
