June 13, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know
By David Bornstein and Susan Davis
This book is intended as an introduction to social entrepreneurship, efforts that use business tactics to solve social problems. It explains how organizations that pursue such approaches are financed, and highlights the groups that are major players. David Bornstein, a freelance writer, and Susan Davis, chief executive of BRAC USA, an international development organization that makes small loans to poor people, answer commonly asked questions that newcomers may have.
The authors also offer ideas on how governments, educators, and others can take steps to increase the number of organizations that pursue social enterprises, as well as strive to make them more effective.
As more people and organizations undertake new ideas to change society, the authors write that “it may foreshadow a new stage of democracy—one animated by citizens who are actively involved in building, shaping, and renewing organizations to improve society. As such, it may also come to redefine citizenship.”
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016; http://www.oup.com; 147 pages; $16.95; ISBN 978-0-19-539633-1.
