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How to Change the World
David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world--what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe; from industrial pollution in the United States to child prostitution in Thailand. Like business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are creative, driven, and adventurous. The embrace change, exploit new opportunities, and think big. In How to Change the World, Bornstein provides vivid profiles of many such ...
Social Entrepreneurship
In a book presented in a Q-and-A format, the authors explain what social entrepreneurs are, how their organizations function, what challenges they face and how readers can get involved in the efforts that social entrepreneurs are spearheading. Cowritten by the author of How to Change the World. Original.
Social Entrepreneurship
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, was hailed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times as "a bible in the field" and published in more than twenty countries. Now, Bornstein shifts the focus from the profiles of successful social innovators in that book--and teams with Susan Davis, a founding board member of the Grameen Foundation--to...
Me and E
"Me and E: A Baseball Odyssey is a reflection on parenting a highly skilled, nationally-ranked and difficult baseball prodigy, told through the author's eyes as he witnessed and participated in the successes and failures of his son playing baseball and growing up in Central Florida. It deals with the changing world of competitive youth sports, over-involved parents, fanatical coaches, the hypocrisies inherent in high school athletics, the college recruiting process and how we teach our kids to grow up and become decent human beings - despite ourselves. It involves well-known sports figures as well as local sports icons with traits and characteristics that everyone will recognize. It's a book about flawed parenting, about living vicariously through a gifted child and learning, finally, that being a good father is as much about letting go as it is about being there. Call it Moneyball meets Everything I Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
Summary of David Bornstein's How to Change the World
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Social entrepreneurs are people who solve social problems on a large scale. They have powerful ideas to improve people’s lives, and they have implemented them across cities, countries, and, in some cases, the world. #2 Social entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon, and the world’s most creative problem solvers are not concentrated in the United States and Canada. Around the world, people are encountering similar problems, and they need solutions. #3 Social entrepreneurship is the leading edge of a remarkable development that has occurred across the world over the past three decades: the emergence of millions of new citizen organizations. #4 The citizen sector is a new group of non-profit and non-governmental organizations that are growing worldwide. They are being pressed to demonstrate their efficacy, and it is becoming safer for organizations to change and innovate.
The Price of a Dream
One afternoon in 1976 an economics professor, taking a walk in a village in Bangladesh, met a poor woman. The woman was trying to support herself by constructing and selling bamboo stools. She earned two cents a day. When the professor asked her why her profit was so low, she explained that the only person who would lend her money to buy bamboo was the trader who purchased her final product and the price he set barely covered her costs. The professor's instinct was to open his wallet and give her some money. Then he had another thought: Why not give her a loan?
The Price of a Dream
The Price of a Dream tells the remarkable story of the Grameen Bank, the groundbreaking "village bank" that has revolutionized the way people around the world fight poverty. The Bank's model--providing collateral-free "micro-loans" for self-employment to millions of women villagers in Bangladesh--has inspired and shaped the thinking of economists, policy makers, business people, development workers and a generation of social entrepreneurs. Both liberal and conservative policy circles have championed the Bank's ability to transform the lives of its clients and help them escape the vicious cycle of deep economic hardship. Drawing upon interviews with villagers, development workers, economists, and the Bank's founder Muhammad Yunus--a recipient of numerous humanitarian awards--the book shows how the Grameen Bank grew from an experiment in one village to an organization that lends billions of dollars in small individual loans.
The Good Word
This book is a compilation of the the best of a decade of editorials that have appeared in the Heritage Jewish News, a weekly newspaper published in Central Florida. These editorials began as explorations into community building and tikkun olam - changing the world positively - but grew into inquisitive, sometimes humorous, occasionally curmudgeonly conversations about what it means to be a Jew and a human being. They run the gamut from personal, introspective pieces to reflections on God and existence, from serious discussions on death and loss to comic parodies of popular trends and personalities. They cover topics as general as holidays, peace and terrorism, economics, parenting, dogs, baseball, the follies of aging and the wisdom of youth, all tied back to a Jewish context. This collection of essays is a snapshot of a time, a window open to a world of slightly offbeat possibilities, a permission slip to ask any question at any time. Questioning, thinking, exploring - that's what The Good Word is all about.
The Long Night
Ernst Israel Bornstein had been eighteen when his world collapsed; youthful adaptability, self-possession and above all, luck, combined to preserve his husk in seven work camps which might have been modeled on the sequence of Dante's circles of hell.
The Power of Unreasonable People
Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable--and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan argue in The Power of Unreasonable People, our very future may hinge on their work. Through vivid stories, the authors identify the highly unconventional entrepreneurs who are solving some of the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental problems. They also show how these pioneers are disrupting existin...
