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Book Description
Published in over twenty countries,
How to Change the World has become the Bible for social entrepreneurship. It profiles men and women from around the world who have found innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether they work to deliver solar energy to Brazilian villagers, or improve access to college in the United States, social entrepreneurs offer pioneering solutions that change lives.
Discover surprising facts about social entrepreneurs from author David Bornstein 
According to a recent Harris Poll, a whopping 97% of Generation Y are looking for work that allows them "to have an impact on the world."
In recent years, courses or centers in social entrepreneurship have been created in over 250 universities and colleges such as Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Duke, NYU's Stern & Wagner, Wharton, Oxford, and Stanford.
Teach for America received 25,000 applications for 3,700 slots in 2008, an increase of more than a third over 2007. In Ivy League schools such as Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, close to 10% of all graduates applied to the program.
In the past two years, the Acumen Fund, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs who solve major problems through business solutions (eg. malaria nets, water purification, loans for housing), received more than 1,000 applications from top ranked business students for just 15 fellowship positions.
The list of top business entrepreneurs who are focusing either full time or a considerable amount of time on social entrepreneurship is highly impressive:
Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay, created Omidyar Network to "enable individual self-empowerment on a global scale."
Jeff Skoll, cofounder of ebay, also runs Participant Productions, which makes socially conscious films including
An Inconvenient Truth and
Goodnight and Good Luck.
Bill Gates has left Microsoft to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy.
Warren Buffett recently donated $30 billion to the Gates Foundation.
William Draper, one of the biggest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, created the Draper Richards Foundation to support social entrepreneurs.
Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (Davos), founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page, founders of Google, created Google.org, which supports social entrepreneurs and has raised over $1 billion. Legendary venture capitalist
John Doerr is leading an effort to raise $100 million for microcredit loans.
The Grameen Bank, the leading example for social entrepreneurs worldwide, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
The Bridgespan Group, a consulting group that advises social entrepreneurs, received 1,800 applications for 18 job openings in 2006.
Wikipedia in English (5)
因为在图书馆找到了英文版，所以看得慢了些。中文版我没有仔细读，不过浏览了一下，觉得吴士宏的翻译还算中规中矩，算是可以读的了，但还是属于那种可以再从中文翻译回英文的翻译。没条件读英文版的，这里是中文版的链接：http://lz.book.sohu.com/serialize-id-5287.html。
在开始阅读之前，我对social entrepreneur这个词，有些想当然的误解。"Social entrepreneurs are transformative forces: people with new ideas to address major problems who are relentless in the pursuit of their visions, people who simply will not take "no" for an answer, who will not give up until they have spread their ideas as far as they possibly can."
作者的分析，并没有独到的地方。比如对于NGO （Non-Govenmental Organization）以及citizen sector在近二十年的大量涌现的原因分析。（读的时候，感觉真像GRE阅读，呵呵。莫非作者是在ETS出过考题？） (