My column this week at the Tennessean is about the growing trend of social entrepreneurs in our culture:
There is a new breed of entrepreneur in America. Rather than using entrepreneurship as a path to wealth, they are using it as a means to create positive social change.They are known as social entrepreneurs -- a trend that can encompass any organization, profit or nonprofit, that has a social mission.
Social entrepreneurs are increasingly approaching social change in a different way than we've seen in the past. Rather than rely on fundraising and grants from foundations to grow large nonprofits, these young social entrepreneurs attempt to blend free market capitalism with their favorite social causes.
