With less than 50 days until Election Day, the presidential candidates are working hard to point out their differences.  By the tenor of this election, you’d never know there are issues on which the candidates actually agree!  But there are, and policies that support the work of social entrepreneurs are among them.
 
For example, Senators McCain and Obama recently co-sponsored The Serve America Act of 2008, new legislation that recognizes the work of social entrepreneurs and includes several policy ideas that would foster and support social entrepreneurship.

The America Forward coalition is honored to partner with Root Cause and Public Innovators to present new ideas for ways social entrepreneurs and government can work together to solve our nation’s most pressing domestic challenges.  Together, we share the belief that matching social entrepreneurs’ innovative solutions with the policy and political reach of government has the potential to make a profound and lasting positive impact on communities across the nation.  
 

As we enter the general election season, social entrepreneurs have a unique opportunity to help shape and influence the next president’s approach to the non-profit sector. The next president will take office with ambitious goals to tackle our nation’s most serious social challenges, from health care reform to improving the quality of our nation’s schools. At the same time, he will be operating in a climate with limited tolerance for new government spending or government-only solutions. Given this, social entrepreneurs can offer the new president and his administration new, tested solutions to these challenges.