Daughters of the declaration
Subtitle: how women social entrepreneurs built the American dream
By: Claire Gaudiani and David Graham Burnett
Contributors: Burnett, D. Graham
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781610390316; 9781610390323
Subjects: Women philanthropists; History; Endowments; Social change; Social entrepreneurship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: The American creed; title: The women of the new nation; title: Enterprise : commercial and social; title: Republican mothers in action; title: Social enterprise and the founding of American religious orders; title: A market-based social enterprise solution; title: The agonizing issue of slavery; title: Individualism and social profit in the post civil war era; title: Building of national organizations for social profit; title: Investors in social profit enterprise; title: Social science, social service, and social profit; title: Partnerships with the federal government; title: Conclusion : cooperative individualism.