Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal improvements. Ventures in this realm are usually intended to benefit economically marginalized segments of society that can't transform their prospects without help. But the endeavors should be financially sustainable, because there's no guarantee that subsidies from taxpayers or charitable givers will continue indefinitely. Grameen Bank is a famous example of a social venture that met both goals. In studying the winners of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the authors found that they all focus on changing two features of an existing system: the economic actors involved and the enabling technology applied. For example, the children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi realized that reaching ethically concerned consumers through Rugmark (now GoodWeave International) could help foil exploitative labor brokers in India's carpet weaving industry. And through the Kiva platform, Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley enabled small-scale lenders in wealthy countries to lend to small-scale borrowers in poor countries. Today GoodWeave operates globally, and Kiva is on track to facilitate more than $1 billion in microloans within the next couple of years.

【書誌情報】

ページ数：9ページ

サイズ：A4

商品番号：HBSP-R1505G

発行日：2015/5/1

登録日：2015/5/11