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An honest assessment for how to determine your individualrelationship with charitable giving in today's world From world-renowned philanthropists Charles Bronfman and JeffreySolomon of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies comes acomprehensive guide on how to be a canny, street-smart, effectivephilanthropist, regardless of your income level.

Mission driven--business as a vehicle for change. The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Non-profits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an exciting, blended model driven by the desire to create positive change through entrepreneurial activities. .

Tackling one of the hottest topics in business today, experts share practical insights about how to finance, market, manage, and assess a social entrepreneurship venture to create a new organization that can do well and do good. Social entrepreneurship is the practice of using the mindset, tools, techniques, and processes of entrepreneurship to confront pressing social issues--an intriguing concept that American business is just beginning to understand.

In 2008, Ashoka launched the "Changemaker Campus Initiative" which applies Ashoka''s rigorous criteria to select and support universities as they develop and implement a comprehensive social entrepreneurship plan. Ashoka aims to set a new standard for social entrepreneurship education. Indeed, despite the rising demand, there remains a dire need for quality coursework and global teaching case studies.