1 “Boy on a High Dive” was the cover of the August 16, 1947, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. See, for example, www.nrm.org/2010/01/e-newsletter-quiz/attachment/031/; viewed September 28, 2011.
1 Allen L. White, “The Future of the Corporation,” Leading Perspectives, Business for Social Responsibility, Fall 2005, p. 5; available online at www.bsr.org/reports/leading-perspectives/2005/2005-fall.pdf; viewed October 1, 2011.
2 Beverly Schwartz, “The Freedom to Innovate: The Contributions of Social Entrepreneurs to the Field of Global Public Health,” in Paul A. Gaist (ed.), Igniting the Power of Community: The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health (New York: Springer, 2010), p. 81.
3 Schwartz, “Freedom to Innovate,” p. 81.
4 David Bornstein, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); David Bornstein and Susan Davis, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan, The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008).
1 Unless otherwise noted all quotations and figures are taken from personal interviews, from the profiles created when the social entrepreneurs were elected to the Ashoka Fellowship, or from their websites, annual reports, and the like. All interviews were conducted by the author except for three conducted and translated by Ashoka staff, as mentioned in the acknowledgments.
2 Jürgen Reuss, “Peaceful Rebels: How a Small Town in the Black Forest Opted Out of Nuclear Power,” Atlantic Times, November 2008; available online: www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=1538; viewed September 2, 2011.
1 David Bornstein, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor Change Their Lives (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
2 Greg Van Kirk, “The MicroConsignment Model: Bridging the ‘Last Mile’ of Access to Products and Services for the Rural Poor,” Innovations, Special Edition, Tech4society, MIT Press, 2010, p. 145; available online at http://tech.ashoka.org/sites/tech/files/INNOVATIONS_Invention_Led_Development_Van_Kirk.pdf; viewed October 1, 2011.
1 Gretchen Wilson, “Kenya's Farmers Connect to Better Prices,” American Public Media Marketplace, February 19, 2007; available online: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/02/19/kenyas_farmers_connect_to_better_prices/; viewed September 28, 2011.
1 Re the estimate of 2.6 billion people without access to toilet facilities, see “World's Toilet Crisis,” Adam Yamaguichi, Correspondent/Executive Producer, Current TV, originally aired June 9, 2010; available online: http://current.com/shows/vanguard/episodes/season-four/worlds-toilet-crisis/; viewed September 3, 2011.
1 “Better World Entrepreneurs: How a Force, No Matter How Small, Can Impact Change and Betterment of Global Societies,” Bangkok Post, August 16, 2008.
2 “FNB Namibia Launches Support of Aflatoun,” FNB Namibia, August 11, 2010; available online: www.fnbnamibia.com.na/news/archive/2010/20100811Support.html viewed October 17, 2011.
1 Stefan Wilhelm, “Intelligent Optimists: Dr. Andreas Heinecke,” odemagazine.com, August 20, 2009; available online: www.odemagazine.com/blogs/intelligent_optimists/9303/dr_andreas_heinecke; viewed September 28, 2011.
2 Dialogue Social Enterprise, Annual Report 2010, p. 87.
1 Susan Donovan, “Entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne on What You Can Learn from Employees with Autism,” Harvard Business Review, September 2008; available online: http://hbr.org/2008/09/entrepreneur-thorkil-sonne-on-what-you-can-learn-from-employees-with-autism/ar/1; viewed September 8, 2011.
1 Paul Scheltus, “Argentina's ‘Loony Radio’ Threatened by Hospital Closure,” Independent, June 11, 2008; available online: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/argentinas-loony-radio-threatened-by-hospital-closure-844166.html; viewed September 16, 2011.
2 Find Tetro at www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=coppola+tetro&x=0&y=0 and “Radio La Colifata Presenta: El Canto Del Loco” CD/DVD at www.amazon.com/Radio-Colifata-Presenta-Canto-Loco/dp/B002ZDOXQM. The album “Viva La Colifata with Manu Chao” is available for free download at www.vivalacolifata.org/.
1 For the history of Yunus and the Grameen Bank, see David Bornstein, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor Change Their Lives (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
2 Laurie Goodstein, “An Effort to Foster Tolerance in Religion,” New York Times, June 13, 2011; available online: www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/us/14patel.html?_r=1&ref=lauriegoodstein; viewed August 26, 2011.
3 This American Moment, NPR, October 2, 2008.
4 Joshua Stanton is founding co-editor of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue. The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue can be found at www.irdialogue.org, with a subsidiary (and less academic) website for emerging religious leaders at www.stateofformation.org.
1 “Forces for Social Change and Civic Renewal,” Harwood Institute Report, December 2008, p. 110.
2 Larry Robertson, A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and Its Moment in Human Progress (New York: Morgan James, 2009), p. 93.
3 Allen Hammond, “BoP Venture Formation for Scale,” in Next-Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, edited by T. London and S. L. Hart (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Press, 2010), pp. 193–216.
4 Ashoka Fellows Changing Systems, Global Study 2009, p. 21.
5 William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: Penguin, 2006), p. 5.
6 WHO and Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research Report, “Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening,” 2009, p. 40.
7 Esther Duflo, quoted in Ian Parker, “The Poverty Lab,” New Yorker, May 17, 2010, pp. 79–89.
8 Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010).
9 The Economist, Special Report: “Telecoms in Emerging Markets: Mobile Marvels.” September 24, 2009; available online: www.economist.com/node/14483896; viewed September 27, 2011.
10 Outlook Business, “Editor's Note: Think About It,” September 5, 2009, p. 1; available online: http://business.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?261363; viewed October 20, 2011.
11 The heading acknowledges the title of a forthcoming book by Dr. Ralph Wittenberg.
12 Stephane Hessel, A Time For Outrage, North American Edition (New York: Hachette, 2011), p. 11.
1 Thanks to Darlene Damm and Diego Favarolo for the lessons on social entrepreneurship.