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5 reasons why social entrepreneurship is the new business model

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29 August Aug 2016 1220 29 August 2016

Embracing a career with meaning and earning income but giving top priority to an explicit social mission. This is a privilege that only social entrepreneurs can experience.

Embracing a career with meaning and earning income but giving top priority to an explicit social mission. This is a privilege that only social entrepreneurs can experience.

It connects you to your life purpose; it keeps you motivated; it helps you help others discover their life purpose and much more. Those are the some of the reasons and rewards that inspire and motivate those entrepreneurs who deem social entrepreneurship is the new business model.

MeiMei Fox profiled the work and the motivations of several leading social entrepreneurs, all of whom are incredibly enthusiastic about what they do for a living because it allows them to live their passion, embracing a career with meaning.

Learn more about them here and let their stories inspire you.

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5 reasons why social entrepreneurship is the new business model

Embracing a career with meaning and earning income but giving top priority to an explicit social mission. This is a privilege that only social entrepreneurs can experience.

Embracing a career with meaning and earning income but giving top priority to an explicit social mission. This is a privilege that only social entrepreneurs can experience.

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