![]() The case studies share the founding story of each initiative, and highlights key decisions, lessons learned, and pitfalls avoided in order to reach impact. To address this challenge, we selected five social entrepreneurs from diverse sectors that serve as examples of market-based models of systems-change. In conferences and accelerators held around the world, social entrepreneurs have repeatedly asked us: what are practical examples they can learn from? They want examples of how to use business models to reach greater scale of social impact, or to effect systems change, in a way that doesn’t compromise their original social mission. The fact that there are successful models for market-based social impact, however, does not mean that it’s easy. ![]() Can you use a business model to not just to do well, but also to radically change a system? At Ashoka, the global network for the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, we’ve met hundreds of groundbreaking entrepreneurs around the world who have taught us that social businesses can be a powerful pathway to social change.Įntrepreneurs we’ve learned from so far include the first free provider of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that’s registered over 12 million students, and an Indian eye care company that has provided affordable cataract surgery for over 32 million low-income patients, the majority of whom were treated for free or at minimal cost.
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