Social and civic entrepreneurs are contemporary social innovators who've invented real solutions to poverty, at-risk youth, crime, neighborhood decay, housing shortages and more.  Social entrepreneurs are typically interested in ways to create for-profit ways of funding their ideas whereas civic entrepreneurs are a part of the larger group of social inventors who generally create a nonprofit for their solution. These are often everyday people who've sacrificed personal lives and 401Ks to go and help people they don't even know. Mostly their ideas are funded and supported by local volunteers and donors. Without them, America's "needed"  would not be helped as compassionately and effectively as they are today. 

When you learn about their stories of determination and boundless creativity you'll never see that food bank or crisis center in exactly the same way. We're a nation of entrepreneurs and these "civic" entrepreneurs have taken some business savvy and applied it to the social sector across America. Now their ideas are replicating everywhere, even around the world! Learn more by reading a book I spent a decade researching and writing after interviewing dozens of civic entrepreneurs across America, The Power of One: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America's Cities.