Social Entrepreneurship

By alixcraft09

  • Robert Owen

    Improved working conditions in factors, founded infant childcare in Great Britain, and laid the foundation of corporate movement.

  • Henry Durant

    Lobbied for national voluntary relief organizations wounded soldiers during war, for development of international treaties for protection of medicos and those wounded on the battlefield, led to the creation of the International Red Cross.

  • Florence Nightingale

    Founded the world’s first nursing school and developed modern nursing practices

  • William Booth

    Established the East London Christian Mission in 1865 to perform evangelical, social, and charitable work and to bring the Christian message to the poor, destitute, and hungry. Eventually reorganized and renamed the Salvation Army.

  • John Muir

    Established the Sierra Club and worked with President Roosevelt to establish the U.S. national park system

  • Frederick Law Olmstead

    Started “City Beautiful” movement to turn open spaces in cities into parks, which changed cities into nice places to live and work.

  • Dr. Maria Montessori

    Established “Casa dei Bambini" (Children's House) in Rome for idea of education based on the idea that children teach themselves, unassisted by adults, methods evolved into the famous Montessori method of early childhood education.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Established the Tennessee Valley Authority to overcome the effects of the Great Depression.