"Social entrepreneurship” has taken the nonprofit and philanthropic world by storm.
The social sector has glorified the rugged individuality of social entrepreneurship: we’ve created powerful mythology about the lone pioneer with a grand vision of sparking transformational social change by igniting a movement or by eradicating a social problem. Fellowships, incubators, graduate school programs and more have all sprouted up to ride this wave of excitement around the promise of marrying business, innovation and social good.