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Contributors Caroline Burns is the executive director of the Entrepreneurs School of Asia Foundation, the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship Education, in Quezon City, Philippines. Before this she was the executive director of the Assumption Lay Volunteer Programme, an international organization that sends volunteer workers to developing countries. Ms. Burns is a British national who has been working in the Philippines for the last three years. She has traveled and/or lived in many countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. She has a bsc (Hons) in international studies from the Open University/University of London and has attended the Asia Institute of Management in Manila. Mary Ann Capistrano is Dean of Instruction at the Entrepreneurs School of Asia in Quezon City, Philippines. She has a bs in management engineering from Ateneo de Manila University and an ms in Computer Methods Applied to Management from the University of Paris in France under a French government scholarship grant. For over fifteen years Capistrano taught at Ateneo de Manila University, where she was assistant professor, chair, and program director. In her over twenty years of tertiary-level teaching, she required applied projects with a social focus of helping less privileged members of the business sector, in particular, blue-collar workers. Her operations focus exposes her to laborers, while her computer training allows her to look into job designs that help lift the skills and improve productivity of human resources. Capistrano has also been a seminar leader for the Asian Development Bank and a systems consultant for d&l/ofi, Canon Marketing , and the Philippines Women’s University. Jacques Defourny is a Professor of Economics at hec-ulg, University of Liège (Belgium), where he is also director of the Centre for Social Economy (www.ces-ulg.be). Since 1996, he has been acting as the founding coordinator and then the president of the emes European Research Network, which gathers ten university research centers and individual scholars working on social enterprise across Europe xx contributors (www.emes.net). His work focuses on the emergence of social enterprise in various parts of the world and on conceptual and quantitative analyses of the third sector in developed and developing countries. Besides numerous articles in academic journals, he has authored or edited ten books, including The third sector: Co-operative, mutual and non-profit organizations (1992), Tackling social exclusion in Europe: The role of the social economy (2001), and The emergence of social enterprise (2001 and 2004). Kirsten Gagnaire is principal and founder of Social Enterprise Group, llc, a company in Seattle, Washington (United States), that specializes in assisting organizations and individuals with developing and sustaining ventures that meet social, environmental, and financial bottom lines. She has a broad background in developing and conducting strategy and business planning for clients in all sectors who are integrating both social mission and profitability. In partnership with Bainbridge Graduate Institute, she created the comprehensive social enterprise business planning methodology, Sustayne. In addition, Gagnaire is vice chair of the board of the Social Enterprise Alliance (a professional association for social enterprise practitioners) and is a member of the faculty at Bainbridge Graduate Institute.She was named one of the Puget Sound area’s Top 40 Under 40 businesspeople in 2003, and her company was also named as a finalist for the Stevie Awards Best Overall Service Business in 2004.She has worked at the Russian-owned world trade center in Moscow and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, in small enterprise development. Janelle A. Kerlin is an Assistant Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (United States). Kerlin’s areas of research include the study of domestic and comparative social enterprise and international nongovernmental organizations . Current research focuses on the influence of culture on innovation in social enterprise, trends in nonprofit commercial activity in the United States, and U.S.-based diaspora philanthropy. She is author of a number of book chapters and journal articles and the book Social service reform in the postcommunist state: Decentralization in Poland (2005). Kerlin holds an ms from Columbia University and a phd in political science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has also worked as a research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and [54.163.221.133] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:16 GMT) contributors xxi Philanthropy at the Urban Institute and as a visiting research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...