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The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur Paperback – June 8, 2017

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The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur is about powering up your social justice career.The world feels so screwed up, so unfair, so unnecessarily mean, so Trumpian. More than ever, the world needs you. This book is a book of conviction about the unfinished work of social justice. According to Lewis: "The crusty work of social entrepreneurship is as much fun as I’m permitted to have in public. It’s joyous, fulfilling and happy-making. Tackling big challenges is heady stuff. Fighting the good fight is utterly gratifying."The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur is a compendium of 21 original essays and insights - part memoir, part handbook - about the challenges and questions every social entrepreneur thinks about. For the novice changemaker, each chapter bristles with provocative tips and tools to transform your social justice career. Because social entrepreneurship is not called solo entrepreneurship, the book also contains 19 additional commentaries by other change-makers.Social entrepreneurs are a club of conscience. Sign up. Show up. Stand up.All book profits donated to social justice causes.
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Jonathan C. Lewis is a life-long social justice activist and accomplished social entrepreneur. Jonathan is the Founder of MCE Social Capital, an innovative social venture that leverages over $100 million of private capital to finance tiny business loans to deeply impoverished people, mostly women, in countries throughout the developing world. Jonathan is the co-founder of Copia Global, an Amazon-like consumer catalog serving the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya. In addition, he is a former Trustee of the Swift Foundation. Jonathan also serves as a General Partner of Dev Equity, a social impact investment fund in Latin America. Jonathan has taught social entrepreneurship at New YorkUniversity, the University of California (Berkeley), and has lectured at universities around the world. He is a recipient of the Social Venture Network Innovation Award. During his eclectic career, Jonathan has served as the founder and CEO of a global business knowledge company in the healthcare sector, Chief Budget Adviser to the President of the California State Senate (who, in public debate in the Senate, said to his colleagues, "if the Senate has a resident genius, it's Jonathan Lewis"), founder and CEO of an urban real estate development company and owner of a contemporary art gallery. Jonathan is on a search to find the tastiest hot dog at the wackiest hot dog stand in the world. He collects art made by developing world artisans using recycled materials. He lives near San Francisco.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (June 8, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1980498814
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1980498810
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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Jonathan C. Lewis is a life-long social justice activist and accomplished social entrepreneur.

Jonathan is the Founder of MCE Social Capital, an innovative social venture that leverages $110 million of private capital to finance tiny business loans to deeply impoverished people, mostly women, in 46 countries in the developing world.

Jonathan is the co-founder of Copia Global, an Amazon-like consumer catalog serving the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya. He is also a former Trustee of the Swift Foundation. Jonathan serves as a General Partner of Dev Equity, a social impact investment fund in Latin America.

During his eclectic career, Jonathan has served as the founder and CEO of a global business knowledge company in the healthcare sector, Chief Budget Adviser to the President of the California State Senate, founder and CEO of an urban real estate development company and owner of a contemporary art gallery.

Jonathan is on a search to find the tastiest hot dog at the wackiest hot dog stand in the world. He collects art made by artisans using recycled and repurposed materials.

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Customers find the book provides valuable insights and practical advice for social entrepreneurs. They appreciate the author's unique humor and humility. Readers describe the storytelling as engaging, relatable, and thought-provoking. The writing is described as candid and honest. Overall, customers consider it a great and must-read book for anyone aspiring to be a social entrepreneur.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017
    This is a must read book for anyone aspiring to be a social entrepreneur or one who has been in the social entrepreneur trenches for decades. This is what struck me. You don’t need to be a perfect human being to be a social entrepreneur. Jonathan is refreshingly upfront about his paralyzing self-doubt and feeling of inadequacy yet he persisted. If you passionately want to do something and you look behind you and find no one else is doing it you are the chosen one. He also drums home the message of listening to find out how those you supposedly want to help view the problem and its solutions. It is easy to foist your half baked ideas onto the poor and vulnerable too often to their detriment which gets back to the importance of listening. Being a social entrepreneur is hard work, you need to write well, develop cogent and well conceived business plans, acquire the necessary technical skills, learn by doing and above all persist, persist, persist. Being a successful social entrepreneur is a long hard slog with many roadblocks but, as Jonathan shows through many engaging examples from his own social entrepreneurial history, it is ultimately the most engaging, thrilling and fulfilling and useful way to spend your life.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2017
    I read this book in a day, and then read it again -with a highlighter. I am not a social entrepreneur, nor do I aspire to be one. But for ANYONE with any thought whatsoever to the world around us, to justice, social equality, and responsibility for our collective future, this is required reading. Jonathan C. Lewis calls upon his vast personal experience, laying bare his own failures and successes, to give valuable insight and practical, reality-based advice to those who want to change the world, or just make a positive impact. His call-to-action emphasizes accountability, honesty, and conviction, while incorporating healthy measures of humility and humor. Lewis’ writing is bold and unapologetic, his stories interesting and relevant, and his message universally applicable. You will enjoy it, learn from it, and quite possibly consider your own role in social change in a whole new light.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2017
    “Social entrepreneurship is like first-time sex. Fumbling, urgent, often messy. Sometimes a little messy…. Practice makes it better. Listening makes it better. Giving, not taking, makes it better. And, sometimes when least expected, it produces a result.” (p.14). Jonathan Lewis’s book is solidly rooted in his own multi-faceted life long experience as a social justice activist. His passionate voice is gripping and entertaining - just as if he was talking with you in person. Be ready for a great ride of a read. You won’t be able help yourself from picking up the highlighter because there are so many great gems of insights you want to remember. This book is a keeper, a provocative thought piece and arms you for great and meaningful conversations in and out of the social entrepreneurial circles. It also makes a gift to anyone, young and much older, looking for their purpose.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017
    Jonathan Lewis humanizes social entrepreneurship by showing, not lecturing, what is in stock for future change agents. He talks to young people in a straight and honest way, and he illustrates with his personal experience the ups and downs that future leaders can expect to live. He also reminds seasoned social entrepreneurs the importance of keeping a moral compass, of remembering on whose side one is, and deciding the type of enemies one should make. Funny, engaging, deep, it is a book that I wish I had read when I was 18.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2017
    Jonathan Lewis's fresh, honest take on the work of social entrepreneurship is an extraordinary exploration of the field and the reasons we do what we do. It is a refreshingly blunt examination of a field that can at its worse can be full of of self-satisfaction, misdirection and complacency, and at its best a world of human connection, joy, and creativity leading to real change and social impact. Read this to find, or rekindle, inspiration-- or just to learn about the road of one very smart, honest and funny social entrepreneur.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017
    This is a must read for all social entrepreneurs. Insightful, excellent reminders of the role we play and how we can have greater impact. I found the format and response essays a wonderful complement. The chapter on LISTENERSHIP, and WHITE were especially provocative and helpful. My hard copy is already dog-eared and my e-book wildly highlighted. This should be required reading not only for social entrepreneurs but also for those who are funders of any social impact endeavor. Thanks Jonathan Lewis!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017
    Jonathan Lewis provides a memoir/fieldguide for anyone who is ready to be a changemaker. The book is packed with stories that anyone in the field could relate to and quotable pearls of wisdom like "converting our righteous anger into a career strategy" and "Why do mentors mentor? Because mentorship is another way to effectuate social change. For the experience social entrepreneur, his strategies will add to your toolkit for change. For newcomers, the personal stories of success (and failure!) are entirely relatable.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2017
    If you have any interest in impact investing, if you are or if you want to be a social entrepreneur, or if you just care about making the world a better place, you simply must read Jonathan Lewis' new book: The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur. It is brilliant, funny, personal and practical. And incredibly moving and inspirational.

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  • Liz
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book with practical examples and highlights
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2017
    I bought this over the weekend. A great book with practical examples and highlights. An amazing piece that every social entrepreneur should read. Careful though; coz it is not business as usual to those who read it...... and my mind is upside down :-)...