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	• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition David Bornstein Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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Great book - I recommend it to anyone

This book is an easy read. Great book with stories about people who are having a major impact in the world. Unfortunately we don't read about them often enough in the newspaper and periodicals. Very inspiring. Enjoy!

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

How to Change the World... is a fantastic book! I founded Projectchild.net and this book has provided me so so so much insight and excitement. David, has out done himself, thank you Harry for gifting me this book! I will gift this book to all my social entrepreneurial friends.

A must read for people who desire to change the world.

Bravo, Ari

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Is there hope?

Is there hope? Can we change the world? Is globalization a benefit to the world or a curse? The western world look at globalization as a curse (the loss of wealth and power status) while the rest of the world looks at it as hope for life and quality of life. Social Entrepreneurs have these and many other issues to contend with. This a good book and highly recommended. Also, Stop Working by Rohan Hall which deals with globalization and entrepreneurship is an excellent companion book that also deals with these challenges.

Fantastic, inspiring -- an amazaing book!

David Bornstein captures the spirit, determination and passion of social entrepreneurs from all around the globe.

I was especially delighted to read about my friend and mentor Bill Drayton, of the Ashoka Foundation. I met Bill in Rio de Janeiro in 1989. During our meeting Bill introduced me to Ashoka, and the stories of the social entrepreneurs they supported. It was my introduction to this wonderful world of committed people.

Bill Drayton encouraged me to create my own foundation, and for many years it supported Ashoka Fellows world wide. David Bornstein has encapsulated for me the world of Social Entrepreneurs and their "Power of New Ideas" in a vivid and dramatic manner -- more so even than my personal visits to my Ashoka Fellows ever did.

This is a powerful read!

Joe Miller
The Joseph F Miller Foundation
http://jfmillerfoundation.org/

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Not exactly things that you can do in your off hours

The "How to" in the title is deceptive. This isn't yet another book that advises you to conserve electricity in your home, or to donate to charities, or to volunteer at local homeless shelters. This is effectively a collection of short nonfiction stories telling about many personal accounts of social entrepreneurs: the sort of people who devote their entire lives to actually *go out there* to make changes happen, who create organizations, not people who just support organizations. These are stories about people who actually went out and helped construct solar panels to bring electricity to rural Brazil, people who actually run a street-youth safety hotline in India. These are in a very different league from things like conserving water by turning off the faucet when you brush your teeth. These aren't things that anybody can just do in their spare time. A lot of the cases of social entrepreneurship described in this book are things I haven't even heard of before. There are grayscale photos of the people and events. There's a lot of statistics. Both defeats and victories are described. This seems to be a college textbook, not light reading. At the back are extensive lists of reference websites.

Suggestions: if possible, get it from the library before buying it, to decide if you're ready for owning this heavy of reading. Expect to read a few chapters at a time, not in a single sitting. You probably don't need to take notes to keep track of it. This would be an excellent book to have a friend read also, so that you can discuss the significance of the anecdotes told in it.

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