“Bill Strickland has turned a near bankrupt community training center in Pittsburgh into one of the most successful organizations in America. His work has brought him a MacArthur Genius grant, a Grammy award, an invitation to lecture at Harvard University, and a seat on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts. Now he is evangelizing a hybrid model of social entrepreneurship: ‘There’s a way to combine the very best of the not-for-profit, philanthropic world with the very best of the for-profit, enterprising world. This hybrid is the wave of the future for both profit and nonprofit companies.’ His take on the overlap between art and entrepreneurship is interesting…”

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