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We invite you to learn about the work of some of the world's most successful social entrepreneurs. Social Profit Network was created to help bring their solutions to scale and find ways to replicate them around the globe. We hope you'll help us do just that.

 

ANAI

ANAI has poineered some of the world's most successful community-based "sustainable development" ventures, linking best development and conservation practices, in Costa Rica. With the help of SPN, ANAI and its grassroots partners are working to scale ventures in organic agroforestry, ecotourism and sea turtle conservation, among other projects.

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Anil Chitrakar

Anil is preserving the cultural heritage of old-world cities by creating new markets for ancient forms of art. Anil has proven his World Heritage Site marketplace model in Nepal and is ready to replicate it in World Heritage Sites globally.

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David Green

David brings medical technologies to the developing world by pioneering new models for production and distribtion that enable him to provide his products to the world's poorest for free, yet remain economically self-sustaining. David has developed a $42 digital hearing aid, now ready for distribution, that rivals the quality of current devices that sell for more than US$1,500.

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Greg Steltenpohl

Greg, cofounder of Odwalla, and Dee Hock, founder of Visa, have created a new system for enabling and rewarding consumer behavior that sustains local businesses and the environment. Similar to any credit card reward system, it helps consumers make the right choices while financially supporting nonprofits in their communities. The system is ready to launch in two pilot cities.

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Jim Fruchterman

Jim's nonprofit company, Benetech, has launched a variety of technologies that serve humanity. They range from Martus, a human rights violations tracking system, now used throughout the world to bring violators to justice, to Bookshare.org, an electronic library that allows the blind to swap and download usable books to reading machines. In addition to scaling his slew of current projects, Jim is ready to implement a handful of others that have far-reaching social and economic potential.

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Dr. Venkataswamy

Dr. V., as he is affectionately known, is revolutionizing eye care in the developing world. His Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to more than 2 million people in India. He pioneered eye camps in the '70s and has built an economically self-sustaining eye-care model that is ready to scale throughout the developing world.

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