Social Visionary's Network of Good
According to Bill Drayton, about 25 years ago something dramatic happened in the world. "We could see it," he recalls. "The system was beginning to change. It was like hearing the ice breaking up at the end of winter in a lake. Creak, creak, groan, crash! The need was so big, the gap so huge, the opportunity to learn right before people's eyes. When do systems begin to change? When entrepreneurs decide it's time." Drayton is founder and chief executive of a group called Ashoka. It is not hyperbolic to call Ashoka this century's version of the United Way, and Drayton the most important innovator of any sort out there -- a seer who has correctly predicted the rise of the "citizen sector" in the past two decades and an audacious visionary of what will yet come.
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