University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst School of Public Policy Capstones School of Public Policy 2013 Social Enterprise In Latin America: Dimensions of collaboration among social entrepreneurs Kevin Moforte Madsen University of Massachusetts - Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cppa_capstones Part of the Public Policy Commons Madsen, Kevin Moforte, "Social Enterprise In Latin America: Dimensions of collaboration among social entrepreneurs" (2013). School of Public Policy Capstones. 23. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cppa_capstones/23 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Public Policy at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Public Policy Capstones by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Social Enterprise In Latin America: Dimensions of collaboration among social entrepreneurs Empresa Social en Latinoamérica: Dimensiones de colaboración entre emprendedores sociales Empreendimento e Inovação sociais em Latinamerica, Dimensões de colaboração entre empreendedores sociais Kevin Moforte Madsen Center for Public Policy and Administration University of Massachusetts - Amherst April/Abril 2013 Advisors: Charles Schweik, Martha Fuentes Bautista Many thanks to Diego Rafael Canabarro for his help with Portuguese translations Social Enterprise In Latin America: Dimensions of collaboration among social entrepreneurs Abstract (English ) In a time of unprecedented wealth, over 2.4 billion people in the world still live in poverty, with less than $2 per day. In Latin America, over 165 million men, women and children –almost 30% of the population – still live in these conditions. Exhausted approaches to development using market mechanisms have cracked under the weight of their evident failure to reach the poorest and neediest.