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by Beverly Schwartz
Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World
Cover
Praise for Rippling
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword: Are You Ready for The Big One?
Prologue
Introduction: Rippling Solutions into System Change
Backstory
From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs
When Dreams Defy Reality
The Rise of Unanticipated Leaders
There Are Many Seeds in an Apple … But How Many Apples Are in Those Seeds?
Part 1: Restructuring Institutional Norms
Chapter 1: Power to the People—Germany
Just a Housewife
Replaceable, Rethinkable, Reinventable, Renewable
One Solution Fits All
Mobilizing the Normal People
Chapter 2: The Teaching of Teaching—United States
A New Generation Needs New Ways to Learn
Moving the Deck Chairs
Teaching Matters
Catch and Release
Chapter 3: From Servitude to Solution—India
Caught in the Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Poverty
Changing Status Quo, Changing Lives
Revolutionizing the Rickshaw
A New Reflection for Rickshaws
Chapter 4: Lifting the Veil for Women Who Don't Exist—Nepal
The Woman Who Doesn't Exist
Sharing Sorrows
Changemakers United
Are You Seeing Red Yet?
Widows and Half-Widows United
Part 2: Changing Market Dynamics
Chapter 5: Using MicroConsignment to Open a Door to Economic Inclusion—Guatemala
You Don't Sell Ideas, You Create Ideas That Sell
It All Started with a Stove
Profits Without Social Compromise
The Power of Counterintuitive Thinking
There Are No Permanent Allies, Just Permanent Interests and Values
The Balance Between Impact and Sustainability
Postscript: Haiti
Chapter 6: Dialing Maize 411—Kenya
The Sorrows of a Small-Scale Farmer
A Community of Commodities
Trees Are Not Only for Sitting Under
Creating a Virtual Agricultural Supermarket
The Rebirth of Farming and Farmers
Chapter 7: Stimulating Fiscal Vibrancy by Creating a New Economy—Brazil
A Self-Sustaining Slum?
Could Just Anyone Create a Bank?
Solidarity Economics
Decentralize the Model, Develop a Movement
Beyond Banking
The Key to Financial Inclusion
Part 3: Using Market Forces to Create Social Value
Chapter 8: From Garbage to Gold—Peru
Trash Talk
From Pit to Potential
Garbage as a Useable Asset
Fast Forward 2010
From Local Ideas to Lasting Solutions
As Peru Changes, So Can the World
Chapter 9: A Better Model of Capitalism—United States
What Can't Be Done, Must Be Done
Trade, Not Aid
From Good Intentions to Positive Change
Reverse Innovation
From Microlending to Market Linkage
Who You Help by What You Buy
Chapter 10: Shit Business Is Serious Business—Nigeria
Two Toilets for Ten Thousand People?
Toilet Marketing 101
Chapter 11: Putting the Public Back in Public Housing—France
Innovation with Exovation
Reinventing Development
Mother of Invention
All Angles Considered
It's Not Like Running a Chain Store
No Tax on Investment
Part 4: Advancing Full Citizenship
Chapter 12: Financial Freedom for Children—Global
Street Smarts
Breaking the Cycle
Saving Children by Teaching Them to Save
Building a Future
Building a System, One Piece at a Time
Chapter 13: Overcoming the Barriers Between Us and Them—Germany
The Encounter
Finding True North
The 360-Degree Shift
Rethinking “Others”
Understand Diversity and You Understand Humanity
Chapter 14: Autistic Abilities—Denmark
It's Not Quite Like the Movies
Serendipity
Going from Fifth Gear to First
A Good Idea That Fills a Need Markets Itself
From Handicap to Competitive Advantage
A Model Turns into a Movement
Chapter 15: Crazy Becomes Normal—Argentina
Demolishing Walls
Psychological Waste Recycled
Undramatizing Without Denying
Music with a Message
Part 5: Cultivating Empathy
Chapter 16: From Babies to Behavioral Shift—Canada
Empathy Can't Be Taught, But It Can Be Caught
Developing Emotional Fluency
How We Feel Is Who We Are
We Need a Global Warming of Our Hearts
Dismantling the “Other”
Creating an Empathy Movement
Chapter 17: Cultivating Champions of Interfaith Action—United States
Building a Core of Campus Champions
Putting Faith in Interfaith
Enhancing Your Religion Through Exposure to Others
New Voices and Visions
“Better Together”
Seeing Similarities, Not Differences
Chapter 18: Beautiful Resistance—Palestine
Interests Change, Values Endure
Beauty and the Beast Within
Import, Export
Values Need to Surpass Violence
CHAPTER 19: Conclusion: Turning What Is and What If into What Can Be
The Outlook Is Partly Sunny
From Common Sense to Common Practice
Accelerating Change Through Technology
The Vitality of the Virtuous Cycle: From Margins to Mainstream
Then; Now; From Now On
Not Either Or, But Both and More
Epilogue: How to Think About Tomorrow
Lessons on Social Entrepreneurship
Author's Note
Notes
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
Conclusion
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Ashoka
Index
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