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Unmet Social Needs

The work of the social sector has been to identify and seek solutions to unmet social needs, primarily from the ground up. Macro approaches to identifying these needs are few and far between. The UN’s Millennium Development Goals represents the…

Foreword

BILL DRAYTON Founder & CEO, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public August 1, 2010   Many people sense that society’s problems are multiplying faster and faster—and that they are outrunning the solutions. The answer lies in the hands of two groups of…

The Social Ecosystem

The ecosystem paradigm provides a framework for understanding and influencing the forces of change facing the nonprofit sector. At the core of the social ecosystem are the social purpose organizations and individuals who are helping their beneficiaries, and the capacity…

Publishing Info

Publishing Info Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Jossey-Bass Imprint)Published: November 2010ISBN: 978-0-470-82715-4 (Hardcover)ASIN: B004CFBLCU (Amazon Kindle) Jossey-Bass (An imprint of Wiley) publishes books, periodicals, and other media to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations and their…

Endorsements

“The World that Changes the World provides a unique and timely window into the global forces that shape our world – and that we can shape for the better. The multifaceted, multinational, multisectoral insights in this volume offer inspiration, ideas,…

Table of contents

Authors’ profiles as of publication date (September 2010) Foreword Overview Beneficiaries Social Purpose Entities Capacity Builders Community Government Change Enablers Macro Trends

Introduction

There are over three million social purpose organizations around the world, employing more than 48 million people, with a limited budget of US$1.9 trillion annually.1 It is a growing, but hugely fragmented, complex, and often confusing sector—with very diverse, at times divisive players—that is largely oriented toward the mission of changing society for the better, though not always in the ways of working with each other to achieve this goal.

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