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Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12:00AM What do you get when you cross venture capital at its best with passionate social entrepreneurs who want to change the world? Echoing Green. Social Entrepreneurship Founded in 1987 by the senior leadership of global private equity firm General Atlantic LLC, Echoing Green is an altogether different kind of nonprofit organization. Echoing Green applies a VC mindset and discipline to funding and supporting entrepreneurs seeking not to build profit-generating business models, but rather to create organizations intended to tackle some of society's most important social problems. Call them aspiring social entrepreneurs. Over the past 21 years, the group has awarded nearly 450 fellowships, investing more than $25 million in seed capital to emerging entrepreneurs across 40 countries on five... [read full story]
