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== VisionSpring ==

'''VisionSpring''', formerly Scojo Foundation, is a social enterprise founded by Jordan Kassalow and Scott Berrie in 2001, a year after Kassalow co-founded Scojo Vision LLC, a designer and distributor of high-end reading glasses.<ref>http://www.draperrichards.org/fellows/visionspring.html</ref>

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=== Impact and Success ===
VisionSpring has impacted 11 countries, benefitting both vision entrepreneurs and their customers. Customers were able to improve their productivity and effectiveness which in turn increase their income with improved vision. Vision entrepreneurs are empowered with a job that sustains a livelihood though the sales of the glasses. These caused an aggregate increment in the nations’ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product  GDP].
 Studies have shown that VisionSpring has increased the earnings of an average customer by $106 and generated $38million in economic growth.<ref>http://www.acumenfund.org/investment/visionspring.html</ref> By 2007, Scojo's "India programme has become the organization’s largest and fastest-growing, training more than 450 Vision Entrepreneurs and selling more than $100,000 worth of glasses." <ref>Dan L. (2007). "Microfranchising: using markets, community to cure illness, poverty" ''Mint''</ref> In 2010, research in India have shown that VisionSpring has generated $228 million in economic growth and increased the earning potential of an average customer by $381. <ref>http://www.visionspring.org/newscenter/news-detail.php?id=876</ref>

The success of VisionSpring’s capitalistic and philanthropic operation has been used as a learning example and role model for social enterprises. Stanford Social Innovation Review,<ref>http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/freeing_the_social_entrepreneur/</ref> Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship <ref>Fayolle, A(ed.), Matlay, H(ed.) (2011) ''Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship.'' Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, UK</ref> and Next Genera(contracted; show full)

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