The Top 28 Must Read Books for Social Entrepreneurs #socent

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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

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