SHORT STORIES OF SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
What follows is a catalogue of stories of successful social entrepreneurs who approach changemaking from a variety of perspectives.
For social entrepreneurs in the field of education, we provide a number of stories about strengthening students’ inner resources (such as their identity and sense of purpose), in mobilizing a school’s pooled resources (particularly groups as teams) or in uncovering such organizational and “situational” resources as safe spaces and repeated events—all with the objective of achieving significant and sustainable results in the most cost-effective manner.
For social entrepreneurs in fields other than education, we provide a few stories that are truly emblematic, in creating peer pressure for good in moving poor basketweavers out of poverty or in focusing on off-terrain vehicles instead of roadway improvements in delivering critical medicines to patients in need.
This is but a short list of such stories. There are many more that participants in Let's Be Changemakers are encouraged to contribute in building a comprehensive changemaker library and story exchange.
Direct Approaches to Changemaking
Indirect Approaches to Changemaking
Group Approaches to Changemaking
What follows is a catalogue of stories of successful social entrepreneurs who approach changemaking from a variety of perspectives.
For social entrepreneurs in the field of education, we provide a number of stories about strengthening students’ inner resources (such as their identity and sense of purpose), in mobilizing a school’s pooled resources (particularly groups as teams) or in uncovering such organizational and “situational” resources as safe spaces and repeated events—all with the objective of achieving significant and sustainable results in the most cost-effective manner.
For social entrepreneurs in fields other than education, we provide a few stories that are truly emblematic, in creating peer pressure for good in moving poor basketweavers out of poverty or in focusing on off-terrain vehicles instead of roadway improvements in delivering critical medicines to patients in need.
This is but a short list of such stories. There are many more that participants in Let's Be Changemakers are encouraged to contribute in building a comprehensive changemaker library and story exchange.
Direct Approaches to Changemaking
- Carol Dweck and a Growth Mindset: A Metaphor to Live By
- JB Schramm and College Summit: Writing Your Way to College
- Paul Farmer and Partners for Health: The Power of Dynamic Pathways
- Eric Schwarz and Citizen Schools
Indirect Approaches to Changemaking
- Jill Vialet and Playworks.
- Andrea and Barry and Coleman: Riders for Health
- Mary Gordon and Roots of Empathy: How a Nudge can Set Off a Chain Reaction
Group Approaches to Changemaking