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51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship is here! As an independently published book, this launch weekend is really key to getting this book out to the world.

Can you help with these 3 things?
1. Buy the book at the special launch price on Amazon.

2. Share over social media. Here are sample messages for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn:

It’s here! 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship now on Amazon 51questions.com #51questions #socent #book #launch @innov8social
Join the #Launch! 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship now on Amazon 51questions.com #51questions #socent #book @innov8social
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3. Write a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads after you read the book. This is one of the most valuable ways to expand the reach of the book.
May the force be with all of us ;-) Happy Holidays and truly hope the book is a useful, actionable, and fun addition to your library.

Warmly,
Neetal

 

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Join in unboxing the first proof copy of the book :) And you can now download an excerpt of the book at 51questions.com. See you at launch. #goanddo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is something incredibly humbling about working deeply on a project and then asking for feedback. And, it’s beyond helpful to ‘get out of your head’ and listen to the candid comments of your trusted network. Reaching out to friends, family, and mentors throughout the book-writing process and working with professional editors and designers has provided fresh perspective at pivotal moments. The process has made the book so many times better ! #gratitude

 

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Once the book was in a more final stage, it was ready for review by people in the social impact space who continually inspire and set examples with their work to bring the social impact sector forward. Their reflections on the book were validating and also formed a valuable personal reminder about the seed of purpose that started this whole process. :)

Book Reviews

 

 

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Sharing through media has made the book-writing and platform-building process more meaningful. Exponentially so. The Innov8social Podcast features interviews with dozens of thinkers and doers, and it has also been special to be interviewed by inspiring social entrepreneurs too. Best of all, meeting people and organizations driven to create impact, has led to exciting collaborations, partnerships, and new potential!

Here are a few of the incredible organizations and entities that have have been collaborators, media partners, and broadcasters in 2015…excited to deepen collaboration potential and build new connections in 2016!

 

 

Media and Partners,

 

 

Interviews

Good Radio Network

CSRLive.in

Heart beings

Big Hearted Hustler Show

Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

The Foreign Policy Project

 

 

 

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As it turns out, an author is only one part of the content. Then come the editors, interior book designers, and crowdsourced design. This book has not only benefitted from all three, but wouldn’t exist without all three. Additionally, it has the good fortune of featuring some very special interior illustrations by LA-based, mission-driven design firm, verynice. There’s nothing quite like working with social enterprise designers (who have opted for a ‘give half” business model, where they give 50% of their services to pro bono clients) on a book about social entrepreneurship.

Synchronicity!

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 Once the idea of a book became clear, then came the process of organizing data from blog posts, mapping the questions, researching, and devising a story to tie together the questions…

 

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Through exploring social innovation, I found it can be hard to find places that centralize and guide interested changemakers on the amazing and growing resources in the space. So, that became a mission. And the idea for a new, actionable, engaging book to invite new social impact thinkers and doers to the table, was born :)

 

 

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Meeting people dedicated and committed to creating impact, in whatever way they can, has given me purpose and a personal vision of using my strengths to contribute, share, and invite others into the space.

Impact storytellers, like my friends Mary and Myles of Forward Films...

 

 

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 …where people work on ideas and innovation bigger than themselves. Such as, 3D printing a banana

…and pass legislation to create new kinds of legal structures for businesses that want to create social impact

 

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A student movement at UCLA that showed us we could be the change we wanted to see. And, my class project-turned- book that might still be available at a library on campus.

 

Book launch Countdown post series - be the change

“South Asian Studies: Amidst a Movement”

A chronology of the student movement for South Asian Studies at UCLA (February 2001-June 2002)

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