DO

to use the optimum practices of business for social aims

Empowerment of the bottom of the economic pyramid, thriving "business" sector at all levels...

that capitalistic markets can improve conditions of poverty

• Acumen Funds
• Ashoka/Changemakers.net
• Echoing Green
• Skoll Foundation
• Unltd

Ashoka, Catalytic Communities, Life in Africa, The Emancipation Network, Grameen Bank, Child Hotline

• Consider both for-profit and nonprofit routes to achieving organizational objectives.
• If more aligned as a for-profit, consider double or triple bottom line metrics.
• Worksheet/exercise--text, video, podcast (give opportunity to share answers or track?)--questions that help lead people to their own version of the solution and help them play with the idea in their own space

Next Steps:

    If you want to create a social venture:

• • look at Catalytic Communities for possible models to try locally
  • meet with other like minded people locally or internationally though ___
  • gather more information specific to your interests, see our resource section for opportunities.
  If you have a successful social business or sustainable nonprofit:
  
  • consider adding environmental metrics.
  • share your work and ideas on Catalytic Communities by submitting your plan to the Community Solutions Database.
  • offer your model for replication through Global Gain's Adaptive Blueprinting.
  • mentor other social entrepreneurs through networks on Skoll,