Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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