Author David Bornstein, whose books have chronicled the expansion of social entrepreneurship, will be presented with the 2008 Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award on April 22 at Duke University.
The award, presented by the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, will be given at 7 p.m. in Fuqua's Geneen Auditorium. Bornstein will offer remarks after the award presentation. The public is invited to attend.
Bornstein's books have chronicled the worldwide growth of the anti-poverty strategy of "micro-credit," as well as the expansion of social entrepreneurship.
His "The Price of a Dream: The Story of Grameen Bank," drew on 10 months of research in villages in Bangladesh. The book won second prize in the Harry Chapin Media Awards, was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996.
His "How to Change the World" has become "a bible in the field" of social entrepreneurship, according to The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof.
Bornstein's articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and a variety of other publications. He co-wrote the two-hour PBS documentary series "To Our Credit," which focused on micro-credit programs in five countries.