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Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World

Name: Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World
Author: Beverly Schwartz
ISBN: 9781118138595

by Beverly Schwartz

March 2012

Intermediate to advanced

288 pages

5h 25m

English

Jossey-Bass

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Cover
Praise for Rippling
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword: Are You Ready for The Big One?
Prologue
Introduction: Rippling Solutions into System Change
BackstoryFrom Breakdowns to BreakthroughsWhen Dreams Defy RealityThe Rise of Unanticipated LeadersThere Are Many Seeds in an Apple … But How Many Apples Are in Those Seeds?
Part 1: Restructuring Institutional Norms
Chapter 1: Power to the People—Germany
Just a HousewifeReplaceable, Rethinkable, Reinventable, RenewableOne Solution Fits AllMobilizing the Normal People

Chapter 2: The Teaching of Teaching—United States
A New Generation Needs New Ways to LearnMoving the Deck ChairsTeaching MattersCatch and Release
Chapter 3: From Servitude to Solution—India
Caught in the Self-Perpetuating Cycle of PovertyChanging Status Quo, Changing LivesRevolutionizing the RickshawA New Reflection for Rickshaws
Chapter 4: Lifting the Veil for Women Who Don't Exist—Nepal
The Woman Who Doesn't ExistSharing SorrowsChangemakers UnitedAre You Seeing Red Yet?Widows and Half-Widows United
Part 2: Changing Market Dynamics
Chapter 5: Using MicroConsignment to Open a Door to Economic Inclusion—Guatemala
You Don't Sell Ideas, You Create Ideas That SellIt All Started with a StoveProfits Without Social CompromiseThe Power of Counterintuitive ThinkingThere Are No Permanent Allies, Just Permanent Interests and ValuesThe Balance Between Impact and SustainabilityPostscript: Haiti
Chapter 6: Dialing Maize 411—Kenya
The Sorrows of a Small-Scale FarmerA Community of CommoditiesTrees Are Not Only for Sitting UnderCreating a Virtual Agricultural SupermarketThe Rebirth of Farming and Farmers
Chapter 7: Stimulating Fiscal Vibrancy by Creating a New Economy—Brazil
A Self-Sustaining Slum?Could Just Anyone Create a Bank?Solidarity EconomicsDecentralize the Model, Develop a MovementBeyond BankingThe Key to Financial Inclusion
Part 3: Using Market Forces to Create Social Value
Chapter 8: From Garbage to Gold—Peru
Trash TalkFrom Pit to PotentialGarbage as a Useable AssetFast Forward 2010From Local Ideas to Lasting SolutionsAs Peru Changes, So Can the World
Chapter 9: A Better Model of Capitalism—United States
What Can't Be Done, Must Be DoneTrade, Not AidFrom Good Intentions to Positive ChangeReverse InnovationFrom Microlending to Market LinkageWho You Help by What You Buy
Chapter 10: Shit Business Is Serious Business—Nigeria
Two Toilets for Ten Thousand People?Toilet Marketing 101
Chapter 11: Putting the Public Back in Public Housing—France
Innovation with ExovationReinventing DevelopmentMother of InventionAll Angles ConsideredIt's Not Like Running a Chain StoreNo Tax on Investment
Part 4: Advancing Full Citizenship
Chapter 12: Financial Freedom for Children—Global
Street SmartsBreaking the CycleSaving Children by Teaching Them to SaveBuilding a FutureBuilding a System, One Piece at a Time
Chapter 13: Overcoming the Barriers Between Us and Them—Germany
The EncounterFinding True NorthThe 360-Degree ShiftRethinking “Others”Understand Diversity and You Understand Humanity
Chapter 14: Autistic Abilities—Denmark
It's Not Quite Like the MoviesSerendipityGoing from Fifth Gear to FirstA Good Idea That Fills a Need Markets ItselfFrom Handicap to Competitive AdvantageA Model Turns into a Movement
Chapter 15: Crazy Becomes Normal—Argentina
Demolishing WallsPsychological Waste RecycledUndramatizing Without DenyingMusic with a Message
Part 5: Cultivating Empathy
Chapter 16: From Babies to Behavioral Shift—Canada
Empathy Can't Be Taught, But It Can Be CaughtDeveloping Emotional FluencyHow We Feel Is Who We AreWe Need a Global Warming of Our HeartsDismantling the “Other”Creating an Empathy Movement
Chapter 17: Cultivating Champions of Interfaith Action—United States
Building a Core of Campus ChampionsPutting Faith in InterfaithEnhancing Your Religion Through Exposure to OthersNew Voices and Visions“Better Together”Seeing Similarities, Not Differences
Chapter 18: Beautiful Resistance—Palestine
Interests Change, Values EndureBeauty and the Beast WithinImport, ExportValues Need to Surpass Violence
CHAPTER 19: Conclusion: Turning What Is and What If into What Can Be
The Outlook Is Partly SunnyFrom Common Sense to Common PracticeAccelerating Change Through TechnologyThe Vitality of the Virtuous Cycle: From Margins to MainstreamThen; Now; From Now OnNot Either Or, But Both and More
Epilogue: How to Think About Tomorrow
Lessons on Social EntrepreneurshipAuthor's Note
Notes
PrologueIntroductionChapter 1Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 10Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 17ConclusionEpilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Ashoka
Index

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Chapter 14

Autistic Abilities—Denmark

Thorkil Sonne is founder and board member of Specialisterne, which employs people with autism and enables them to use their computer skills to provide valuable services for the business community.

I don't consider them autistic—they are more like specialists. They have very special qualities that make them focused, detail-oriented, and persistent. Wouldn't we be rewarding these qualities in a person who wasn't labeled as autistic? Why don't we just understand people for what they can do rather than label those who are not like us?

—Thorkil Sonne

THORKIL SONNE WAS DEVASTATED WHEN HIS SON LARS WAS diagnosed with autism at age three. Thorkil was, by his description, a traditional family guy having a traditional ...

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