Davos in NYC
As I was reading some other articles on Salon, I came across this one about the World Economic Forum meeting held in NYC this past February. Usually attendees are a who's who of politics and capitalism brought together to address various global issues. This year for the first time were included:
forty "social entrepreneurs," individuals who have chosen to apply themselves not to increasing their personal wealth but to alleviating social problems -- AIDS in Africa, orphans in India -- that have traditionally been left to woollier, not-for-profit types. Social entrepreneurialism is in vogue right now: if you are in business school, this is what you want to do, just as three years ago you wanted to start a dot-com.
Hmm. I just hope that in the end these noprofits don't end up anywhere close to the dotcoms.
I didn't know that the World Economic Forum was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab as a regional European conference that is now a nonprofit funded by 1,000 of the most prominent corporations in the world.