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Social Entrepreneurs

18th January 2011

Great article about Social Entrepreneurs...

"Making and giving money are generally considered to be two separate operations.

First you make your cash. Then, if you're of a philanthropic bent, you give some of it, maybe a lot of it, away.

But how about combining the two, taking the entrepreneurial spirit and harnessing it to do good?

One Water was an idea dreamt up by a bunch of friends in a pub, with the aim of creating a business that sold bottled water and gave away all its profits to water projects in Africa..."

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