Running a non-profit business according to a for-profit model ensre that she makes the most of the financial prospects available to her.

Articles andblogs about Gen Y suggest that recent college graduates are not content with simply sitting behind a desk, running numbers without a view of what their efforts are producing. The members of this new generation of talents want to be creative, see tangible results, and do something that exhilarates them. The social entrepreneur model is highly exciting for just that reason - it allows individuals to leave their mark on history.

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Bornstein (Author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas) notes that traditional career paths may not cut it anymore, claiming, "If you're living in this cutthroat Machiavellian world of just connecting with people and building things for profit maximization as a pure motive, you're not going to actually have a really rich life".