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Change: SOCIALLY ENTREPRENEURIAL:Taproot is socially entrepreneurial because it seeks to change the pattern of pro bono work in society. Whereas pro bono work is common among
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Change: Michael Hornstein & Catherine LeeResearch has shown that teacher quality - not class size, curriculum, nor facilities - is the single most important school-based factor influencing student
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Change: Research has shown that teacher quality - not class size, curriculum, nor facilities - is the single most important school-based factor influencing student achievement. The
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Change: The New Teacher ProjectShelly & BelindaVestergaard Frandsen GroupArchitecture for HumanityOne Laptop Per Child Google.orgInstitute for OneWorld HealthMedecins Sans FrontieresWes & Yin YinBenetechKivaGenocide Intervention NetworkPSISustainAbilityPATH========================= Better World BooksSusan Chen, Leah KarlinsBetter World Books
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Change: AFH is an example of a social e venture because their premises are unprecedented in scope and inspiration. Never before has an open source resource
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Change: Taproot is socially entrepreneurial because it seeks to change the pattern of pro bono work in society. Whereas pro bono work is common among lawyers
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Change: The Baby Academy is entrepreneurial, in that it is one woman's enthusiastic effort to pour her soul into a product, and is socially entrepreneurial in
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Change: Acumen’s venture capital model of investing, in which it takes a stake in the enterprises it invests in either in the form of debt or
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Change: Path is a social entrepreneurial organization because it recognizes a social issue and uses business tactics to make a social change. It measures its performance
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Change: Ni &and BelindaYin ChiangYinPSI engages the private sector to alleviate health problems by providing low cost health care products to vendors. Started in 1970, PSI
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Change: Shelly Ni & Belinda ChiangPSI engages the private sector to alleviate health problems by providing low cost health care products to vendors. Started in 1970, PSI has
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Change: Officially called Doctors Without Borders in the United States, MSF is a secular humanitarian-aid NGO that targets war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease.
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Change: This model is highly entrepreneurial since it creates new value from bottled water that isn’t just about quenching one’s thirst; a social value for ameliorating water-related crises is also produced. Ethos Water has potential for huge profits considering the ever-expanding
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Change: Perhaps what is most innovative about the Ethos Water business model is that it is so shockingly simple. It shows how some of the best, most profitable social enterprises aredon't somehave ofto thebe simplest.large and complex. Ethos Water has potential
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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Change: this organization entrepreneurial") under the previous paragraphs for that organization, or at the bottom of yourthe page if it hasnot assigment:been previously researched Organization=========================Susan Namenames& ofLeahBetter studentsWorld whoBooksHeifer researchedInternational thisCity organization YearGirls for a ChangeKickstart
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Change: Directly sent more than 570,500 books to Books for Africa, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Feed the ChildrenCreated over 130 full-time jobs (with full benefits)http://www.betterworldbooks.comhttp://www.nacs.org/news/112604-webcaution.asp?id=cmbHeifer InternationalSusan Chen, Leah KarlinsHeifer International is a nonprofit charitable organization
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Change: advocates, and 4) landmineadvocates. detection. In addition to identifying opportunities for technological applications to create social impact, the Benetech management team also performs viability research and develops product development and business plans for these applications. Benetech is a fascinating tech-oriented venture because
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Change: I was amazed by Mimi Silbert's vision, and how she started Delancey Street despite everyone believing it would be a failure - indeed, it's hard to imagine a restaurant run by felons being a smooth running enterprise, much less a hit/success! Delancey Street has been a
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Change: Delancey Street is considered the country’s leading residential self-help organization for substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others who have hit bottom. Many of its residents
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