Powering Social Enterprise with Profit and Purpose: The Tandem Hybrid

Social entrepreneurs are creating businesses with a primary mission of social change. Scott Boyer is one such example, leaving a six-figure salary to start OWP Pharmaceuticals and the ROW Foundation, a tandem hybrid social enterprise. This model combines a multimillion-dollar business with a foundation to become the largest funder of projects serving people with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Social entrepreneurs are taking on the world's most pressing problems that government, business, or charity have failed to solve. They are creating businesses with a primary mission of social change. Scott Boyer is one such social entrepreneur. This 28-year veteran of Big Pharma left a six-figure salary to start OWP Pharmaceuticals and the ROW Foundation. This commercial business and non-profit organization exist in a symbiotic relationship known as a tandem hybrid social enterprise. This model combines a multimillion-dollar business with a foundation that is on track to become the largest funder of projects serving people with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders in the world.

The tandem hybrid incorporates the principles learned by Scott and others for building a truly unique social enterprise from the ground up; one that is:

Driven by a compelling social mission
Financed by commercial success
Structured to retain control
Scalable and sustainable for the long haul

Powering Social Enterprises With Profit And Purpose offers a detailed blueprint that has proven commercially and philanthropically successful and that can be replicated in most business sectors.

Weight: 318g
Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032352374