The Change Masters – How do you solve the world’s problems? With creativity, passion, and the savvy to turn scarce resources into big impact.

Meet the winners of the 2005 Fast Company /Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards.

How long has it been since you were surprised by hope? As you browsed the morning newspaper, when did you last feel a sense that the world was becoming a better place? That the forces propelling the future were on the right track? That the power of imagination was serving those with healing ideals rather than those with darker agendas? Overwhelmed as we are by images of bad news, it is easy to tacitly embrace the notion that humanity’s only possible trajectory is downward.

But that simply is not true. The proof lies in your hands, in the pages that follow. Here you’ll read about the winners of Fast Company and Monitor Group’s second annual Social Capitalist Awards: 25 organizations that are using creativity, business smarts, and hard work to invent a brighter future. These social entrepreneurs are more than architects of change with grand, skyscraper-scale visions; they are general contractors of getting stuff done. They will surprise you with hope and delight you with results.

From: FastCompany Issue 90 | January 2005, Page 47 By: Cheryl Dahle Illustrations by: Brian Stauffer

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