Social entrepreneurship has been around for a long time (John Muir, for example, could be dubbed a social entrepreneur today)...it just didn't have its own name. Beginning in the 1980s, social entrepreneur was used to describe a different sort of entrepreneur. Since then the name has struggled for a definition.
In What Is a Social Entrepreneur, Really?, posted at Ashoka's Change InSight Blog, David Castro, an Ashoka Fellow, shares his struggle to define the term...More...
Photo: American naturalist John Muir (1838 - 1914). Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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