APIPA issues colour-coded alerts to city residents on the risk of flooding and various agencies provide emergency shelter and rations to the displaced. APIPA is made up of approximately 300,000 members and has a network of over 5,000 doctors and healthcare facilities.
Titusville and other towns in the area boomed. One of those who heard about the discovery was John D. Rockefeller. Because of his entrepreneurial instincts and his genius for organizing companies, Rockefeller became a leading figure in the U.S. oil industry. In 1859, he and a partner operated a commission firm in Cleveland.
Itâs only 32 years old, yet the field of social entrepreneurship is gaining global momentum. When Bill Drayton founded Ashoka and coined the term âsocial entrepreneurâ in the 1980s, it was because he believed in the power of a person with a good idea tackling not just a social problem, but also the systemic forces that cause such problems.