"Toronto is home to some of the most remarkable social entrepreneurs in the world: environmentalist Geoff Cape, who turned an abandoned brickyard in the Don Valley into a self-financing nature retreat with gardens, wilderness, an urban farm, organic food market and outdoor classrooms; Craig Keilburger, a 12-year-old student who founded Free the Children to end child labour and built a youth advocacy in 45 countries; Michael Labbé, a non-profit developer who proved he could build homes that low-income families in Toronto could afford; and George Roter, a 23-year-old engineering graduate who envisioned sending out young engineers to show rural Africans how to bring water to their villages, increase their crop yields, sell some of their produce and make a living. But most have made it on their own or with seed money from a far-sighted philanthropist. Governments, businesses and banks weren’t willing to take a risk."
Full article: Canada’s best undervalued asset: its social entrepreneurs.
