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By Beth Battle Anderson and J. Gregory Dees Beth Anderson and Greg Dees raise questions about some of the rhetoric around “earned income strategies” in arguing that the nascent field of social entrepreneurship needs to build a strong foundation of …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Social entrepreneurship has been gaining momentum as an academic subject. In the past decade, numerous schools, particularly, but not exclusively, business schools, have launched new courses, programs, centers, or research initiatives embracing …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson [This is an edited excerpt from a longer paper by the same authors entitled “Framing a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship: Building on Two Schools of Practice and Thought.” The original paper was …

By Beth Battle Anderson Response to two papers with the conclusion: “While the practice of social enterprise is not new, our understanding of it is still extremely limited, and most arguments for or against it draw almost exclusively on a …

By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern Arguing that social entrepreneurs have commonly sought to spread or “scale out” their innovations by replicating or “scaling up” their organizations, this article offers a framework for a larger set …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Traditional sector boundaries are increasingly breaking down. On small and large scales, for-profits and nonprofits are moving into new territories and exploring uncharted waters. While this kind of sector-bending is not entirely …

By Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson From its roots in 1978 as a project of the Youth Action Program in East Harlem, by early 2003, the YouthBuild movement had grown to encompass a network of over …

By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern How can social entrepreneurs effectively scale their impact to reach the many people and communities that could benefit from their innovations? As policy expert and author Lisbeth Schorr observed: “We …

By Jane Wei-Skillern and Beth Battle Anderson Nonprofit organizations often move into new territories by establishing local branches, affiliates, or a combination of branches and affiliates, resulting in a plural form. This paper presents data from a survey of U.S. …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson This article focuses on the potential benefits of sector-bending. Sector-bending refers to a wide variety of approaches, activities and relationships that are blurring the distinctions between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, either because …