Will The Emerging 4th Sector Accelerate Social Change?

In a recently published paper supported by the Aspen Institute’s Program on Social Innovation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and written by Heerad Sabeti, co-founder of the Fourth Sector Network, the author examines the emergence of practices and new types of organizations that blend social and environmental missions with business practices. The paper also suggests that the creation of a new class of "For-Benefit" organizations could accelerate social change.

What do you think? Will the emerging 4th sector accelerate social change?

Read the executive summary here.

Contributed by Laura Deaton.