Social entrepreneurship for the 21st century : innovation across the nonprofit, private, and public sectors / Georgia Levenson Keohane.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.

What is social entrepreneurship? -- Early social entrepreneurship : the service organizations -- Early social entrepreneurship : the funders -- New philanthropy and the value of evaluation -- Technology as a force for good -- The pull of prizes -- Activist assets -- From entrepreneurship to enterprise -- The investor perspective : impact investing -- International impact investing -- Case study : the microcredit story -- Impact investing in the United States -- The enterprise perspective : shared value capitalism -- The case of New York City : social innovation the Bloomberg way -- The Obama administration in theory : social innovation goes to Washington -- The Obama administration in practice : unleashing the innovation mojo -- Shaping markets : social impact bonds abound -- Social entrepreneurship revisited -- New views on philanthropy and government -- Commercialization and its discontents -- Social entrepreneurship for the twenty-first century.

Shows how social entrepreneurship has radically transformed the nonprofit, private, and public sectors ; Explores the promise of impact investing--what it really is and how it works ; Illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems ; Identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation at the local and national levels ; Recommends specific investment opportunities.