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“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.”

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Bill Drayton

Bill Drayton, born in 1943 in the United States, is an outstanding social entrepreneur. He is renowned for his contributions to non-profit organizations, particularly for founding Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global organization dedicated to discovering, supporting, and connecting social entrepreneurs. Drayton is committed to promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship, and his work has had a profound impact on global social change. more

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