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That is the question addressed in Crain’s Business piece. Today, a movement of social entrepreneurs is tackling issues like homelessness, disease, pollution and hunger with business enterprises. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

The shareproudly.com blog writes, “Wouldn’t it be great to have all videos on social entrepreneurship right at your fingertips. As part of our commitment to help you find only what matters, we decided to sort through YouTube and choose the videos that we think are worse your time. You do not have to waste your [...]

From mowing lawns to meeting needs of the marginalized, young Vincentian and Catholic social entrepreneurs grow up. Read more about de Paul University students and the prominent place of Catholic univiersities in the movement to serve the world and make a profit. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

In a “love is inventive unto infinity” story that Vincent would enjoy, Green TV’s short segment called “Once Upon a Mattress” documents the St. Vincent dePaul Society’s (Lane County, Oregon), mattress recycling plant. “We really are the only commercially viable mattress recycler in the world” Related FAMVIN Posts:SSVDP President General visits Hong Kong Daughters of [...]

Microplace, an online brokerage service that enables people to make investments that earn a return while empowering the poor to work their way out of poverty, has launched its “Small Change. Big Change” campaign, designed to turn spare nickels and quarters into agents of change. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

MicroPlace, a microfinance investment vehicle about which we’ve posted before, has added investment opportunities in 9 more countries. “To date, investments made through MicroPlace have generated 20,000 loans to the world’s working poor.” Read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

“Our generation is replacing signs and protests with individual actions,’’ says Kyle Taylor, 23, an advocate for the social-entrepreneur movement who started his own mentoring organization. ‘‘This is our civil rights movement and what will define our generation.’’ The New York Times features profiles of young entrepreneurs (aka systemic change agents.) Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related [...]

The New York Times Magazine focuses its attention this week on giving. The features include a piece on the faces of social entrepreneurship as well as David Leonhardt’s analysis of why people give. Read the articles and see a slide show. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting private-sector supply chains. Read a review. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus has written his second book, Creating A World Without Poverty. The book outlines his concept of a “social business” serving the needs of the poor, and is critical of those who call themelves social entrepreneurs, but who operate with a profit motive. The book also provides an overview of the first [...]