FYI: Good Guy vs. Good Guy
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington CarverWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?--- 2009年10月16日 星期五，Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 寫道﹕
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In October 2003, Sayyaad Soltani, the elected chair of the Council of Elders of the Qashqai Confedertion in Iran, gave a plenary speech to the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa. He spoke of the relentless pressure on his nomadic pastoral people in the 20th century: "Pastures and natural resources were seized from us by various governments. Our migratory paths were interrupted by all sorts of 'development' initiatives, including dams, oil refineries, and military bases. Our summering and wintering pastures were consistently degraded and fragmented by outsiders. Not even our social identity was left alone." This speech, cited at length in Mark Dowie's thought-provoking book Conservation Refugees, 
In the late 1980s, when Barry and Andrea Coleman noticed that motor bikes intended for use in the delivery of health care in Africa were not being used because they had broken down—in some cases needing mere $3 oil filters—they knew they had to put their own pedal to the metal. Speaking at the 2009 Responsible Supply Chains Conference at Stanford, they share some of the successes and challenges associated with running Riders for Health, which administers vehicles to keep health supplies flowing efficiently throughout the continent. 
The most recent complete review of regulations, policies and practices for the nonprofit sector (of which I am aware) was the 2005-2006 Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, hosted by Independent Sector, which produced a first report with 120 recommendations and a supplemental report a year later. Since then we've seen the development of new reporting and ratings systems (GIIRS, IRIS), whole new "sectors" such as Social Capital, a steady increase in online giving, a rise in international giving flows, the expansion of two new organizational forms through state law—the low profit limited liability company (L3C) and the B Corporation and probably lots of other system-oriented innovations of which I am not aware. We've also seen: ... 
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