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Meet the Social Entrepreneurs:
Elliott Brown, Springboard Forward
David Bornstein, Author
Bill Drayton, Ashoka
Melanie Edwards, MobileMedia
David Green, Project Impact
Paul Rice, Transfair USA
Gillian Caldwell, WITNESS
Martin Fisher, KickStart / ApproTEC


Learn about Social Innovation:

Introduction to Social Innovation
Social Innovation at Stanford
Nonprofits vs. For-Profits
Our Three Favorite NGO's
Social Innovation in Review

What's social innovation? (and keep it simple!)

Social innovation is a new movement about combining for-profit skills with nonprofit values to create lasting social change. It tends to put a premium on generating income, measuring impact, and innovative ideas. It's all pretty cool.

Where are the interviews?

Everywhere. Follow the menu to the left for a list of interviews and articles on outstanding "social entrepreneurs. Or just go ahead and download all the columns for easier reading, printing, and sharing.

The interviews and articles here first appeared in The Stanford Daily newspaper, and provide an excellent introduction to the how's and why's of social change.

"Any problem is sitting there as an invitation for you to use all the things you learned in school to solve that problem"
- Bill Drayton,
Ashoka