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Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein

David Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas http://amazon.com/dp/0195334760?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=14AP66BE72J4KX2ZQ7CH&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240301&pf_rd_i=507846 .

He recently updated this book, and it’s now available for the first time in paperback. No less than Nelson Mandela said the book is “wonderfully hopeful and enlightening.”

David is also the author of The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank http://www.amazon.com/Price-Dream-Story-Grameen-Bank/dp/0195187490?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189921200&sr=8-3 , which chronicles the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy “micro-credit.” The Price of a Dream, which drew on ten months of research in villages in Bangladesh, won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996.

Bornstein’s articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, New York Newsday, Il Mundo (Italy), Defis Sud (Belgium) and other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series “To Our Credit,” which focuses on “micro-credit” programs in five countries. Bornstein received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters of Arts from New York University.

By Guy Kawasaki

Full Interview: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/09/social-entrepre.html

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