The End of Charity

The End of Charity

by Maryrose Cuskelly and Nic Frances
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/05/2008

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Nic Frances is a social entrepreneur. He once worked for charity. This is the story of how he came to understand that charity can never deliver a just and sustainable world. It is only through a value-centred market economy that we will ever see real social change.


Breaking new ground and drawing on his encounters with business and social leaders around the world as well as his own richly-lived experiences, Nic Frances leads us through his principles of social entrepreneurship. He introduces us to the powerful idea that the market can be a tool for delivering a range of values besides profit. He explains the growing recognition that corporate social responsibility benefits businesses as well as the community and that welfare organisations will only be really effective when they start exploring social enterprise and corporate partnerships.


The End of Charity is as hopeful and as it is inspiring. It heralds a breakthrough to lasting change to the seemingly intractable problems of poverty, injustice and environmental sustainability. It is a book for everybody who cares about the future.

ISBN:
9781741762853
9781741762853
Category:
Charities
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-05-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Maryrose Cuskelly

Maryrose Cuskelly is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of two books, Original Skin: An exploration of the remarkable human hide (Scribe 2010) and The End of Charity: Time for social enterprise (Allen & Unwin 2008), which she wrote with Nic Frances, and was the winner of the Iremonger Award.

Her essays and articles have been published in a range of magazines, journals, and newspapers, including The Age, The Australian, The Melbourne Magazine, WellBeing, The Big Issue and RealTime. Last year Maryrose won the Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing (Non-fiction) for her essay 'Well Before Dark'.

Nic Frances

Nic Frances MBE is a world-renowned social entrepreneur. In 2007 he started a for-profit environmental and social purpose enterprise called cool nrg working to drive environmental change globally. Nic first worked in the corporate world of hospitality as well as stockbroking.

He was later instrumental in establishing two UK social businesses and received an MBE from the British Government for services to charity before coming to Australia to become CEO of the charity, the Brotherhood of St Laurence. From 2004?2007 he found and led Easy Being Green. Nic has been recognised as a Schwab Foundation social entrepreneur and attends the World Economic Forum in this capacity. In 1996 he was ordained as an Anglican priest.

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