IDEX Fellowship

Recommended Reads

Our recommended reading list is drawn from diverse disciplines and topics and with support and inspiration from our partners and advisors. The diversity of these selected perspectives can provide insight into the challenges and opportunities social entrepreneurs face today and help shape fellow’s vision of how to create change in our ever changing world.

 Websites:

www.nextbillion.net Online Platform that brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.

 www.SocialEdge.org Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.

 www.BeyondProfit.com Beyond Profit, a new social enterprise magazine, presents the stories, people and ideas behind these innovating social ventures by bringing you first-hand insights and expert commentary.

 www.Dowser.org Dowser is a place for anyone who cares about initiating positive change. We tell stories about people who are creatively attacking social problems. People who show how achievable it is to make an impact.

 Reading:

• Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems, Stuart L. Hart 
• In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobari-Rose, Elizabeth Hooper 
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, Muhammad Yunus 
• How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, David Bornstein 
• Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 
• The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World, John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan 
• The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, David Bornstein 
• The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light 
• “Emerging Markets, Emerging Models,” The Monitor Group

PDF Files:

• Social Entrepreneurship - Leadership that facilitates societal transformation by Sarah H. Alvord, David Brown, and Christine W. Letts (PDF)
• The meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship" by J. Gregory Dees (PDF)
• "Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship" by Paul C. Light (PDF)
• “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition” by Roger Martin and Sally Osgood (PDF)