Mike Hamel

Trail-blazing social entrepreneurs are tackling 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 we call a "tandem hybrid social enterprise." This model combines a multimillion dollar business with a foundation that’s 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 haulPowering 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.

Trail-blazing social entrepreneurs are tackling 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 we call a "tandem hybrid social enterprise." This model combines a multimillion dollar business with a foundation that’s 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 haulPowering 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.

A social enterprise applies commercial strategies to improve financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. Social Enterprise 2.0 as used in this book features a for-profit company and a charitable foundation whose hybrid partnership takes the concept to the next level. "Our strategic focus is to support physicians and patients in the U.S. with beneficial products," says Scott Boyer, OWP founder, "and to use a large portion of the profits to provide resources for those living in under-resourced areas of the world. I hope what we're doing will inspire entrepreneurs in other sectors to build companies that promote the wellbeing of humanity." We envision a world where all people receive the best level of medical and pharmaceutical care regardless of who they are or where they live. - Scott Boyer

"One World One Standard" is the mission of the ROW Foundation, which exists to improve the lives of millions of people with epilepsy in under-resourced regions of the world. Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhuman." The ROW Foundation believes this injustice can be remedied if enough good people decide to make it so.

28,000,000 People Have Cancer - Including Me.I've had three bouts of cancer and the subsequent treatment has included 36 rounds of chemo, 33 rounds of radiation, eight surgeries and a bone marrow transplant. This book follows my journey toward the valley of the shadow of death. It's written for all those who find themselves in the borderland between life and death.