The concept of social entrepreneurship has become more popular in the last few years as people have taken entrepreneurial principles and applied them to a social issue.  Rowan Claypool is one such character who started his social entrepreneurship quest over 10 years ago. Rowan has built two organizations, starting out as insurgent, grass roots groups and the growing one into an offical arm of Yale University.  I asked Rowan to talk about his ventures: Rowan, tell me about Bulldogs in the Bluegrass? Bulldogs in the Bluegrass was started to accomplish several missions: attract Yale undergrads to a city they would NEVER consider otherwise, give them their first real world job experience, provide our local nonprofits with extraordinary young interns, and put the city on the map. It worked, 10 years and 324 interns later, 32 have moved to town for at least a year after graduation from Yale. I now work for Yale replicating the model across the country. It is a complete novel ALUMNI driven model which now operates in nine cities and places over 140 interns annually. In addition to this group, you also founded Teach Kentucky? Teach Kentucky flows from the same general mission to attract bright young folks to the Commonwealth. This time it is multi-institutional and for the purpose of teaching in public schools. We enroll them in an alternative certification/Masters at UofL (University of Louisville) and provide them many connections through civic mentors to the community so they will stay. What type of success have you had? One hundred percent of those who survive the first Fall complete their 2 yr. commitment and 70% stay on teaching in Kentucky after the commitment. They are reaching high levels of leadership very quickly and will be great educators soon.   One of the reasons for the success of these first time teachers is the second year teachers have written a field guide, The Teachopedia, to help smooth the transition for those just entering the program.