Social Entrepreneurship in the Economist
The Economist this week is running a special report on entrepreneurship. One of the stories in the special report, focused on entrepreneurs “doing good,” argues that entrepreneurship is reshaping the voluntary world as much as the commercial world. Among leading “social entrepreneurs,” the Economist lists Riders for Health, run by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs Andrea and Barry Coleman and Teach for America, founded by 2009 social entrepreneur Wendy Kopp.
It’s a pretty good sign of the growing acceptance of the social entrepreneurship model when the Economist, a leading business magazine that knows something about entrepreneurship, includes a story about social entrepreneurship in a report on entrepreneurship rather than writing about it as charity.
