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When dreams defy reality: Beverly Schwartz at TEDxAmericanUniversity

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Beverly Schwartz is an "entrepreneurial" behavioral scientist and has made her career in the field of social change marketing. She is the author of "Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World" which has been honored with both the 2013 Nautilus award and the 2013 axiom business book award. She is also Vice President at Ashoka, the world's largest association of social entrepreneurs. Currently she leads a program seeking innovative solutions to youth unemployment in Africa and for the 2013 -2014 academic year, she is Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the international business school, INSEAD in France.

When Dreams Defy Reality
Filmed by Ford Fischer and Justin Parker
Edited by Ford Fischer

As social and environmental problems keep pace with rapid world changes, the number of social entrepreneurs has been increasing as well. As the geographic reach of their ideas has been expanding ever more rapidly, the rate of discovering new solutions to social problems is multiplying. How can we clone these people who see lack of equity, access and opportunity as what is - and turn it into what can be? Can we realistically hope to create a world where dreams defy reality and where the word tomorrow infers a better day to come?

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