Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems - Tides Canada

ContentsForewordsExecutive Summary1 Introduction2 Survey Findings3 The Business Case4 Deeper Dive: Health5 Deeper Dive: Energy6 Conclusions & Next StepsAnnexes1 Survey Instrument2 ParticipantsGrowing Opportunity:Entrepreneurial Solutions toInsoluble ProblemsFirst Edition 2007ISBN1-903168-17-1PublisherSustainAbility LtdDesignerRupert BassettPrinterPensord PressPaperRobert Horne Revive 50:50 silkCopyright 2007 SustainAbilityand The Skoll Foundation.All Rights Reserved. No partof this publication may bereproduced, stored in a retrievalsystem or transmitted in anyform or by any means,electronic, electrostatic,magnetic tape, photocopying,recording or otherwise, withoutpermission in writing from thecopyright holders.14511233036444849AcknowledgementsThis project has been a collectiveeffort — and an opportunityto grow in various dimensions.First and foremost, we areprofoundly grateful to Jeff Skoll,Sally Osberg and their colleaguesat The Skoll Foundation, withoutwhose financial support andwider inputs this program ofwork would not be possible.We also are enormously gratefulfor the support of our corporatesponsors, Allianz (where wethank Paul Achleitner, KayMüller, and Nicolai Tewes) andDuPont (where we thank LindaFisher and Dawn Rittenhouse).Our warm thanks go to theProject Advisory Board, whosemembers were: Jeroo Billimoriaof Child Savings International;Debra Dunn, AssociateConsulting Professor, StanfordUniversity Institute of Designand Board member of TheSkoll Foundation; Jed Emersonof Generation InvestmentManagement; David Graysonof Business in the Community;Pamela Hartigan of The SchwabFoundation; Jane Nelson of theCorporate Social ResponsibilityInitiative, Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard University;Professor David Wheeler ofDalhousie University; andJan-Olaf Willums of InSpireInvest and TH!NK.The Project Team fromSustainAbility comprisedMaggie Brenneke, JohnElkington and Sophia Tickell,with invaluable help fromMeghan Chapple-Brown, YasminCrowther, Kelly Cruickshank,Jeff Erikson, Sam Lakha, MarkLee, Michael Sadowski, JodieThorpe and Peter Zollinger.The survey instrument (seeAnnex 1) was designed withthe help of John Thomas ofLaunchBox, whose input toevery phase of the surveyingand analysis was indispensable.To the 130 social entrepreneurswho offered their time andperspectives, a heartfelt thankyou for your candor, courageand inspiration. And, our bestwishes for your success. A listof social entrepreneurs whoparticipated in our researchis provided in Annex 2. Wehave omitted, however, thoseorganizations who asked forconfidentiality in theirresponses.In addition, we would liketo thank others who madehelpful — in some casesusefully provocative — inputs:Gib Bulloch of Accenture; BillDrayton of Ashoka; José ManuelEntrecanales of Acciona; TimFreundlich of the Calvert SocialInvestment Foundation andGood Capital; Jonathon Hanksof University of CambridgeProgramme for Industry; GaryHirshberg of Stonyfield Farm,Inc.; Kurt Hoffman of The ShellFoundation; Jean Horstmanof InnerCity Entrepreneurs;Oliver Karius of VantagePointGlobal; Colin Le Duc ofGeneration InvestmentManagement; Martin Newmanof The Company Agency;Jacqueline Novogratz ofAcumen; Eric Rassman of UCLA;Linda Rottenberg of EndeavorGlobal; Samer Salty of zoukventures; Björn Stigson, WorldBusiness Council for SustainableDevelopment; Tom VanderArk of The X Prize Foundation;and, from the SustainAbilityFaculty, Sir Geoffrey Chandler,Francesca van Dijk, Bob Massieand Andrea Spencer-Cooke.We hope that those who tookpart recognize most of theircontributions in what follows.We gratefully acknowledge theuse of the ’10 Routes to Money’framework, taken from ThePower of Unreasonable People:How Entrepreneurs CreateMarkets to Change the World,by John Elkington and PamelaHartigan, to be published byHarvard Business School Pressin February 2008. Finally, ourgratitude to Rupert Bassett forhis design. As ever, all errorsof omission or commission areours alone.