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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Bill Drayton

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
BILL DRAYTON

Empathy Skills Understanding
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
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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Advancement Affected Constitute Execution General Money
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
BILL DRAYTON

Creative Flying Skills Syndrome

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