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The Top 28 Must Read Books for Social Entrepreneurs #socent
If you have other great books that social entrepreneurs should read, or like to discuss any below, please feel free to list or discuss them here
1. Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
2. Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All by Robert Egger
3. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus
4. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo and Niall Ferguson
5. Design for the Other 90% by Cynthia E. Smith
6. Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed by Thomas W. Dichter
7. Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant
8. Freedom From Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty by Ian Smillie
9. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
10. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein
11. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
12. Mission, Inc.: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise by Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls
13. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
14. One Wild Life: A Journey to Discover People Who Change Our World by Clare Mulvany
15. Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak
16. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
17. Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies by Ernesto Sirolli
18. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
19. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
20. The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore
21. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
22. The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business by Graham Hancock
23. The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World by John Elkington
24. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
25. Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) by Dan Pallotta
26. Whats Wrong with Microfinance? Thomas Dichter (Editor), Malcolm Harper (Editor)
27. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
28. You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy by Nicholas P. Sullivan
Do you have another book you think should be added to the list? If so, please make suggestions here
Page name: best social entrepreneur books
Last editor: Mark Grimes (214)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:45:01 PST
Tags: books recommended
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