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The Path from Charity to Profit

Greg Dees was quoted in an interesting NY Times piece on social business, “The Path from Charity to Profit”: For a social business, “the obstacles are similar to those of starting and running any new business,” said J. Gregory Dees, …

Taking Social Entrepreneurship Seriously

By J. Gregory Dees The article discusses the concept of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship emerged in the 1980s from the work of Bill Drayton that provided fund for social innovators around the world. It comes into its own in the …