Searching for "social entrepreneur" in your preferred search engine can provide other resources. Here's one that I found just now:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092515/10-most-successful-social-entrepreneurs.asp
Searching for "social entrepreneur" in your preferred search engine can provide other resources. Here's one that I found just now:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092515/10-most-successful-social-entrepreneurs.asp
We could have non-profit businesses for any and every kind of activity. Of course they would have to be competitive. They would have to advertise and do PR. They might need lobbyists. They might need to form interest groups. They would need good product and package design, and to do market research, and all the other things that success in a tough business climate requires.
We should have non-profit agri-business, engineering, real estate development, IT, logistics, waste management, etc.
While it sounds naive, a non-profit should be able to do anything a for-profit company does, but more cheaply, since it doen't have to pay as much to investors. A return that was one percent above inflation would be enough for most socially conscious investors. But only if the business was sustainable.
A non-profit economy is possible right now.
It is a question of culture. If there is a culture of non-profit enterprise, of people balancing the benefits for themselves and society and customers and employees; if that culture gives honour and respect to its participants; then people will want to join that culture.
People are status-seeking. They seek honour and esteem. So recognize those who do what needs doing for doing it right. Not for being plutocrats and monopolists. Or, inversely, for refusing to help take care of things.