Top 20 Books for Social Entrepreneurs creating Enduring Social Change      Top 20 Books for S...      Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Taps Don, Anthony D. Williams Portfolio Hardcover, 2008 Must read to keep up with the times! + Could be helpful if you are new to the topic... + The future of economics Excellent book. I promise you'll learn a lot! Great info to take back to your organization. It provides a different mindset on how to do things and that in itself is worth the read. You'll also be amazed at what companies are doing to stay abreast and be shocked how those who aren't doing are ...             Rules for Reaching Consensus: A Modern Approach to Decision Making Steven Saint, James R. Lawson Pfeiffer, 1994 Robert's Rules for collective decision making Does your organization strugle with the collective decision-making process? If the answer is yes, this book is for you. Devoted to group decision making, this guide teaches you: * A step-by-step process and rules for reaching consensus * How to run a consensus-management meeting * The benefits of using a consensus ...             Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing: A Simple Battle Plan for First-Time Marketers Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson Entrepreneur Press, 2007 Very sensible advice. Levinson's books get better with time. This is his best. Very sensible advice on marketing and the importance of your customer. Highly recommended.             Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits Leslie Crutchfield, Heather McLeod Grant Jossey-Bass, 2007 Twelve High-Impact "Starfish" + Forces For Good + Work Smarter - Not Harder! + Beyond Mission and Vision + A great asset for non profit leaders             How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition David Bornstein Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Single best book I have read in past five years + Social Entrepreneurs Make the World a Better Place + Entrepreneurship at its Best I read a lot, almost totally non-fiction, and for the past several years, after accidentally becoming a top Amazon reviewer on the strength of 300 reviews lifted from the annotated bibliographies of my first two books, I have been dedicated, as a hobby, to reading in the service of the public. My ...             Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs, 2008 "Creating A World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus + High on rhetoric, short on action + Social Business, a concept that can save this world + A noble dream + Excellent primer for the emerging field of social businesses             Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies Paul R. Niven Wiley, 2003 How to tweak the standard model Balanced Scorecard for nonprofit and government organizations + A great book + Exellent Info about what Scorecards can do for you + Great discussion of what is really a side topic to Balanced Scorecards + Church Ministry Aid             Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact: A Social-Entrepreneurial Approach to Solving Social Problems Andrew Wolk, Kelley Kreitz Root Cause, 2008 An Important Resource for the Social Sector + Handy, concise guide to business planning for nonprofit managers and board members. + Great Buy As a student of public management and a former social entrepreneur, I am convinced that if more social sector managers understood and adopted the business planning process for social impact, their organizations or enterprises would experience new vitality. More generally, the use of business ...             The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Remarkable, Inspiring, Instructive, a Total "Wow" + Agenda for Solving the Most Important Problems with Improved Socially Focused Organizations + Extraordinary Businesses are Changing the World I became very enthusiastic about the term "social entrepreneurship" when I made the transition from reading about collective intelligence and citizen wisdom councils and wealth of networks, to understanding that there was a form of energy I first encountered in How to Change the World: Social ...             Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 "Social Entrepreneurship" is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social ...             Managing the Nonprofit Organization Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2006 More ImportantThan Ever as Boundaries Blur + The Besetting Sin of Leaders + excellent information for non profits + A must read for any leader -- nonprofit or not             Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation (Entrepreneurship Series) Arthur C. Brooks Prentice Hall, 2008 This text brings together the established pedagogy of entrepreneurship with cutting edge nonprofit and public management tools. Measuring social value, earned income, donations and government income, entrepreneurial fundraising and marketing, and social enterprise business plans. For the entrepreneur who seeks to understand the social and non-for-profit sectors.             Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun (Social Venture Network) Ben Cohen, Mal Warwick Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 A practical guide for turning ideals into reality + Highly recommended! + Doing good and doing well I eventually want to start my own apparel business, but I know the industry is rife with ethical abuse. Because of this, I want to run a business that does as little harm and as much good as possible. Until a few weeks ago, I was not sure how to bring that ideal to practical fruition. After ...             Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture Steven K. Gold Learning Ventures Press, 2006 Very good book for a beginer + A must read for any budding entrepreneur! + Great, fun, easy read, but... + Very good, but needs more depth             The Search for Social Entrepreneurship Paul Charles Light Brookings Institution Press, 2008 Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research. Light begins by outlining the debate on how to define social entrepreneurship, a concept often cited and lauded ...          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web we recommend Must read to keep up with the times! randomly chosen book: Photo Eid Cards