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Dear toubab, good initiative.

I am also inerested in social entrepreneurship/non profit sector and will be joining oxford Said in fall this year. i am primarily interested in education sector. what are the major nonprofit developmental bodies in education sector where one can join post MBA and make a difference?
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Education's not my field, but my sense is that there are often non-profits that concentrate on particular urban/rural areas. Might wanna check that out on a local basis. Also, the Gates Foundation is very active in education... as is the Doris Duke foundation, I think.
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thnx dear +1
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So a big part of my decisionmaking process in picking schools is finding out how many students there are interested in the social sector (and pursuing opportunities post-graduation in it). I think the level of organization and interest in the school's Net Impact chapter is a good indicator.

Compare here:

Duke: https://www.dukembanetimpact.org/

Darden: https://web2.darden.virginia.edu/student ... =88&id=112

... kind of speaks for itself.
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Headline: Solving a Social Problem, Without Going the Nonprofit Route

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It used to be that people who wanted to solve a social problem — like lack of access to clean water or inadequate housing for the poor — created a charity. Today, many start a company instead.

D.light, a company cofounded by Sam Goldman, who spent four years in the Peace Corps in Benin before earning a master’s degree in business from Stanford University, is an example. Mr. Goldman started D.light with the mission of replacing millions of kerosene lamps now used in poor, rural parts of the world with solar-powered lamps.

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What to call these innovative businesspeople is the subject of some debate. The terms “social entrepreneur” and “social businesses” are generally used to characterize people and businesses that bring entrepreneurship to ventures that have a social mission. Yet there are those who would limit the social entrepreneur label only to those without any profit motive. A separate, but related, category are companies referred to as “socially responsible.” These are generally companies whose core business does not necessarily have a social mission, but who display socially responsible characteristics, like environmental sensitivity.


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/busin ... ?_r=1&8dpc

Yeah for social entrepreneurship! And also, as a returned Peace Corps volunteer who used kerosene lamps every night as well, I can dig on this.
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