Social entrepreneurship
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Social entrepreneurs are dissolving boundaries in business. Their mission is clear?positive social impact. Today consumers, investors, and employees are demanding more than profits. They want social returns. In North Carolina, socially-motivated companies are blending for-profit and non-profit strategies. They are making money and doing good.
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Social entrepreneurs are dissolving boundaries in business. Their mission is clear?positive social impact. Today consumers, investors, and employees are demanding more than profits. They want social returns. In North Carolina, socially-motivated companies are blending for-profit and non-profit strategies. They are making money and doing good.
Broadcast History
July 9, 2007 on WUNC
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Social entrepreneurs are dissolving boundaries in business. Their mission is clear?positive social impact. Today consumers, investors, and employees are demanding more than profits. They want social returns. In the Triangle, socially-motivated companies are blending for-profit and non-profit strategies. They are making money and doing good.
Next Generation Radio?s Meenakshi Chivukula Reports:
(Mee-knock-shee Chiv-vu-cool-ah)
Script:
//YMCA Splash// FADE UNDER
The sun is shining and the temperature is rising. Summer is here. To many kids, there is nothing more synonymous with summer than swimming.
Across the nation at YMCAs, parents are hauling their kids to swim lessons and summer camp.
[Swim instructor, ?The barbell will be on my tummy??]
//FADE UNDER//
At the Chapel Hill ? Carrboro YMCA, little heads bob up from the surface. These polywogs are learning how to...
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Social entrepreneurs are dissolving boundaries in business. Their mission is clear?positive social impact. Today consumers, investors, and employees are demanding more than profits. They want social returns. In North Carolina, socially-motivated companies are blending for-profit and non-profit strategies. They are making money and doing good.
Next Generation Radio?s Meenakshi Chivukula Reports:
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