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The 10 Greatest Social Entrepreneurs Of All Time

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Drayton is the founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an organization that is dedicated to finding and helping social entrepreneurs around the world. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit loans to those in need to help them develop financial self-sufficiency.

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[Interview] Nellie Mayshak, Founder Of Canaf Consulting Associates

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It has led her to long-term assignments in locations as far flung as Liberia and Lithuania, and work that has been complex, multi-faceted and often encompassing many years. In Liberia, for example, she was challenged to help reconstruct a civil service that had collapsed after over a decade of civil wars.

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