Social Business Entrepreneurs

Toward a compassionate and more inclusive form of capitalism

A group for those interested in the concept of self-sustaining for profit business enterprises which engage in social activism funded from their own resources. This concept, described  variously as the no-loss corporation, social capitalism, compassionate capitalism aims for the more than full cost recovery form of social enterprise proposed by Nobel prize w ...learn more

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Created: Oct 16, 2007

Updated: Nov 24, 2009

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Created: Feb 27, 2008
Updated: Oct 25, 2009
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Topic: Favorite Social Business Entreprenuers

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The first two that always seem to roll off the tongue...

BIll Drayton (Ashoka)

Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank & other Grameen companies)

I'll toss out

Matthew & Jessica Flannery (Kiva)

Others?
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John Berger & Sarah Symons (The Emancipation Network & Made by Survivors)
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Christina Jordan (Life in Africa)
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Tony Deifell (kaBOOM!)
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Paul Hawken (WiserEarth) oops
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Peter Eigen (Transparency International)
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Simon Zadek (AccountAbility Intl) and Steve Waddell (Global Action Networks) are two inspiring people- both in person and in print
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John Wood (Room to Read)
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Paul hawken "Blessed Unrest"

R. Buckminster Fuller (the Grandfather of the modern sustainability movement.)

Paolo Solari, Arcology

John Todd, Boifiltration

Amory Lovins, RMI

L. Hunter Lovins, Nat Cap.

John Trudell, Being Human

Gil Friend, Natural Logic

Van Jones,

Cory Booker

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