Become a social entrepreneur

Check out this new book, The Tactics of Hope (www.TacticsofHope.org), which inspires and supports individuals by providing strategies and tactics that will help transform personal concerns into meaningful actions that address critical personal, social and environmental challenges.

It tells 27 stories, in their own words, of individuals from around the world - as diverse as the Amazon Rainforest, Himalayan Mountains, New Orleans, and Silicon Valley - who have succeeded in moving from passion to action around a social or environmental challenge, creating solutions and opportunities that are innovative, business-oriented, and often profitable.

Desmond Tutu writes in the Foreword to The Tactics of Hope: “Being of service to others is one of the greatest gifts one can give to another human being-and to oneself...This book is inspiration and guide for those who want to begin to take their first steps, and those who truly want to realize the potential we all have to make a difference.”

The Tactics of Hope offers case studies and stories like these:

- Matt and Jessica Flannery, a couple featured with Oprah who together created Kiva, a peer-to-peer connective program for loans of small amounts from the United States to the poor in developing countries.

- Phoebe Coburn, a girl who at age twelve began filling empty school libraries in Nepal with books

- Rosalind Jones Larkins, raised in the projects in New Orleans, who decided to help destitute women displaced by hurricanes find work and shelter.

- Rodrigo Baggio, a Brazilian technology consultant who provides recycled computers to poor children in the favellas to help bridge the digital divide.

Filled with both inspiration and tactical steps, this is a guidebook for the twenty-first century, showing how you can become a social entrepreneur.