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Friday, May 17, 2013 — No Region Specified

How To Be A Social Intrapreneur: Persistence, Resilience, and Patience

Source: Co.Exist
In working to turn her Brazilian bank into a financial resource for micro-entrepreneurs, Aparecida Teixeira de Morais has learned valuable lessons about changing a company from the inside.
TAGS:business development, microenterprise, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 — No Region Specified

Video Contest Winner Colorado State University Shows Business Education Can Change the World

Source: GBSN Online
Business students from around the globe entered the Global Business School Network’s 3rd annual MBA+ Challenge Video Contest to show how they are making a difference in the developing world.
TAGS:entrepreneurship, impact investing, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

‘We believe strongly in the power of entrepreneurs to transform Africa’

Source: Business Day
As of March 2013, Omidyar Network has committed more than $611 million to for-profit and non-profit companies that foster economic advancement, including entrepreneurship.
TAGS:entrepreneurship, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 — Latin America

Looking for a Latin American Seed Fund? Try the Colombian Government

Source: The Atlantic
Grooveshark creator Andres Barreto is placing a bet on Colombia.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, April 08, 2013 — No Region Specified

In Mexico, A Dartmouth Grad Fights Poverty Through Capitalism

Source: Forbes
Fernando Orta had remarkable drive and ingenuity even when I first met him as a freshman at Dartmouth. It’s no surprise that five years after graduation, he is making things happen.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, April 08, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Mara Foundation, NFTE Partner For Global Entrepreneurship Education

Source: Ventures Africa
Mara Foundation and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) have launched a partnership aimed at educating emerging entrepreneurs across the globe.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, March 25, 2013 — Asia Pacific

Bankers ride boom in social enterprises

Source: South China Morning Post
Putting private capital to public service is booming in Asia, and some investment bankers are quitting their high-profile jobs to support "clean and green" enterprises.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Thursday, February 28, 2013 — No Region Specified

The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship in B-Schools in Three Charts

Source: Harvard Business Review
Twenty years ago, on two different business school campuses a continent away, the seeds of social entrepreneurship were planted.
TAGS:social business, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, February 25, 2013 — South Asia

164 social ventures take part in the first edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge

Source: India Education Diary
The Tata group in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), hosted the grand finale event of the first Tata Social Enterprise Challenge today, followed by a Social Entrepreneurship Conference at the institute’s auditorium where the winners were felicitated.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, February 18, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

How social entrepreneurs are inspiring change across Africa

Source: The Guardian
Leadership programmes are facilitating social enterprise projects that could be a viable alternative to aid
TAGS:entrepreneurship, social development, social entrepreneur
Thursday, February 14, 2013 — No Region Specified

Put the Social Before the Enterprise (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Would)

Source: Forbes
How do you identify the entrepreneurs who are going to create meaningful social impact? Look for the ones who, above all else, put their social missions first.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 — North Africa and Near East

Why the Arab awakening depends on social entrepreneurs

Source: The Guardian
For two years, I have resisted use of the term Arab Spring to describe the events that have been unfolding in Egypt and the Middle East and North Africa. It is an unrealistic label to use, its application verging on naïve, even lazy, in this situation. Spring is a time where something with strong roots, carefully nurtured, flourishes and grows. We are not there yet; I hope that we may be soon.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Monday, February 04, 2013 — No Region Specified

Olivia Mukam on Founding Cameroon’s First Social Entrepreneurship Program

Source: The Next Women Business Magazine
As President and Founder of Harambe-Cameroon, Olivia Mukam established Cameroon’s first Social Entrepreneurship Program: an opportunity zone for Cameroonian university students to translate their ideas into actions, as they propose business enterprises to solve local problems. The initiative Harambe-Cameroon is led by an alliance of young Cameroonians in the Diaspora, from the US, UK, France and Asia. Founded in 2009, Harambe Cameroon is an independent branch of the global alliance Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance, recognized and supported by the White House, the UK's Westminster, the Ghanaian Parliament, plus African and global leaders such as Mo Ibrahim and Aliko Dan Gote.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, Women
Friday, January 04, 2013 — No Region Specified

Maybe an accelerator at sea isn’t so ‘Unreasonable’ after all

Source: Digital Trends
11 entrepreneurs will set sail on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator with the goal to break into the global market to solve the world's most pressing problems with the backing of some of the best tech minds that the industry has to offer.
TAGS:incubators, social entrepreneur
Thursday, December 20, 2012 — No Region Specified

Skoll Foundation Announces 2013 Award Winners

Source: Skoll Foundation Blog
The Skoll Foundation today announced the winners of its 2013 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship (SASEs).
TAGS:events and competitions, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 — North Africa and Near East

The Latest Way to Solve Poverty in the Middle East

Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In the last two years, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has increasingly focused on supporting social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa region as a way of tackling the region’s socio-economic challenges that cause poverty.
TAGS:employment, entrepreneurship, MENA region, social entrepreneur
Friday, December 07, 2012 — No Region Specified

Introducing... social enterprise speed matching

Source: The Guardian
The Nominet Trust has not always got collaboration right, but a recent speed dating-style event helped connect social entrepreneurs to potential funders
TAGS:impact investing, social entrepreneur
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — South Asia

‘Rising Star’ Leila Janah on Fighting Poverty

Source: Wall Street Journal
Leila Janah is trying to find a way to connect women and young people living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet. Her company Samasource, which she founded in 2008, provides free, specialized technology training via 16 centers in nine countries, including India, Pakistan, Kenya, Haiti and Uganda.
TAGS:poverty alleviation, social entrepreneur
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — Europe & Eurasia

Three Things Governments Should Do For Social Entrepreneurship

Source: Forbes
Today, Europe’s leaders are discussing a $1,000 bn budget framework for the EU, and for the first time, there are budget lines for social entrepreneurship – although you may have to find them with a very large magnifying glass.
TAGS:governance, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 — No Region Specified

Meet the 2012 Young Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise

Source: National Geographic
Five young men and women who embody the spirit of enterprise, the ideas and will to make the world a better place, were named today the 2012 Young Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise.
TAGS:corporate engagement, events and competitions, social entrepreneur
Monday, November 19, 2012 — No Region Specified

Five Predictions For The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship

Source: Forbes
What’s the future of social entrepreneurship? On November 29th, Ashoka’s founder, Bill Drayton, is giving his predictions in an interview with David Bornstein from the New York Times. But what do you think? Give your say on Twitter using the hashtag #FutureSocEnt and your thoughts will feed into the event and a post-event summary.
TAGS:Ashoka, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Friday, November 09, 2012 — No Region Specified

Duke Receives Award for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator

Source: Duke Today
Durham, NC - Duke University will be able to draw on its expertise in social entrepreneurship and innovation to tackle global health challenges, thanks to a $10 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that was announced Thursday in Washington.
TAGS:health care, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Friday, November 09, 2012 — No Region Specified

OneLeap aims to bring social entrepreneurs and serious investors together

Source: Gizmag
The world is brimming with good ideas, but presenting them to the people who are in a position to make them happen presents a formidable challenge. OneLeap, launched earlier this year, is a web-based networking platform designed to fix this situation by bridging the gap between entrepreneurs, investors, influencers and top-tier executives, while raising money for charity in the process.
TAGS:impact investing, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Thursday, November 01, 2012 — Latin America

QMágico’s co-founder talks social entrepreneurship and education in Brazil

Source: The Next Web
Thiago Feijão was one of the panelists speaking at Entrepreneur Week Brazil, which took place for the first time in Rio de Janeiro last week. As the co-founder of edtech startup QMágico, he talked about social entrepreneurship and education opportunities in Brazil.
TAGS:education, social entrepreneur, technology
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 — No Region Specified

Help Us Find 30 Awesome Social Entrepreneurs Under 30

Source: Forbes
Last year, we launched our 30 Under 30 project, where we named 30 up-and-comers in 12 industries, including technology, food and wine, music, and finance. This year, we’re including a new category I’m very excited about: social entrepreneurs.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

‘The potential is big,’ says green energy entrepreneur

Source: How We Made it in Africa
Socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneur Mshinwa Edith Banzi is the founder of Illumination East Africa (iEA), a Tanzanian-based company that offers affordable solar chargeable LED lamps to predominantly low income earners. These lights have a battery life of between 18-24 months and batteries can be replaced thereafter.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, solar, sustainability
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Opportunity Africa: How One Social Venture Is Crowdsourcing the For-Profit Finance Model

Source: Forbes
The best social entrepreneurs are always tweaking the model. In microfinance, crowd-sourced ventures have aimed at connecting first world capital with developing world opportunity – and with some success. A few years ago, I met Mads Kjaer in Oxford and was fascinated by a model that added risk and reward to what had been more a form of philanthropy than investment.
TAGS:entrepreneurship, impact investing, social entrepreneur, venture capital
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 — Latin America

Jeff Skoll's Billion-Dollar Plan To Save The World

Source: Forbes
Four years ago Jeff Skoll arrived via small plane in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon region, just in time for the Waura people’s festival of the pique fruit, where he sipped from a bucket of its bitter, bright-yellow brew.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, sustainability
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 — No Region Specified

Calling All Social Entrepreneurs

Source: Forbes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Mashable, UNDP, 92Y and Ericsson are hosting the Social Good Summit in New York City this weekend. Even if you can’t go to New York, you can participate.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conferences, social entrepreneur, social impact
Monday, September 17, 2012 — South Asia

ISB competition for social entrepreneurship ideas

Source: The Hindu Business Line
Do you have an idea that has a potential to make a social impact? The Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced iDiya, a nationwide idea competition for working professionals who are interested in starting ventures with a potential to create a positive impact on society.
TAGS:events and competitions, social entrepreneur, social impact
Monday, September 10, 2012 — No Region Specified

The 2012 Social Entrepreneur Awardees

Source: World Economic Forum Blog
When Klaus Schwab and I created the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship back in 2000, no one knew what social entrepreneurs were. They were uncommon and unsung heroes in their respective countries and communities, working in relative obscurity to test out new approaches to tackle profound market failures. When they came to Davos, few participants attended the session ‘Meet the Social Entrepreneurs’. Their voices – and the voices of the bottom billion of humanity, the poor people they serve – were often not heard.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, conferences, poverty alleviation, social entrepreneur
Monday, September 10, 2012 — No Region Specified

Why Social Entrepreneurs Could Use a Little More Faith

Source: GOOD
As your average Fast Company subscribing, TED Talks-watching, New York Times reading, SXSW obsessed pop culture junkie, I know a few things about social innovation. Having followed the game-changing efforts of TOMs Shoes, Kiva, Kickstarter and Warby Parker, it's easy to think of social innovation and entrepreneurship as a secular thing. A recent Southern California Faith-Based Social Innovation Forum showed though that when it comes to collaboration with faith-based social entrepreneurs, there's plenty of room for growth.
TAGS:conferences, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Thursday, September 06, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

How door-to-door business can empower rather than repress women

Source: The Guardian
It's easy to criticise business for expanding into developing countries. But if it helps poor and isolated women, is it all bad?
TAGS:consumer products, corporate engagement, multinational corporation, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, September 04, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Social entrepreneur connects African women to global e-commerce

Source: How We Made It in Africa
Ella Peinovich is a MIT graduate and one of the three founders of Kenyan-based SasaAfrica, a women owned and operated social enterprise, which offers an innovative e-commerce platform for female artisans, vendors and entrepreneurs in Africa to create sustainable micro-enterprises using mobile phones.
TAGS:mobile phones, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 — Europe & Eurasia

Reverse innovation brings social solutions to developed countries

Source: The Guardian
Social entrepreneurship often focuses on finding solutions to problems in the developing world. But, as the European Union battles with the ongoing recession and the US experiences rising levels of poverty, social enterprise solutions are increasingly appropriate in advanced industrial countries as well.
TAGS:consumer products, poverty alleviation, social entrepreneur
Friday, August 24, 2012 — South Asia

TISS to fund, mentor entrepreneurship students

Source: The Indian Express
The social entrepreneurship students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), keen on starting their venture at a time when the economy is volatile, now have a back-up. The institute has introduced a scheme this year to fund and mentor students pursuing masters in social entrepreneurship for three years.
TAGS:impact investing, investment fund, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda: Tigo Unveils New Package for Social Entrepreneurs

Source: All Africa
Tigo and "Reach for Change", an international NGO, have launched a new campaign with an aim of supporting social entrepreneurs to enhance the lives of Rwandan youth.
TAGS:business development, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 — No Region Specified

Ditch The Hero Complex, And 3 Other Tips For Female Social Entrepreneurs

Source: Forbes
Ten years ago, social entrepreneurship was a pretty lonely field. There weren’t degree programs or associations; impact investing and microfinance were barely even recognized terms. Even organizations like Ashoka – which has a 25-year history of investing in entrepreneurs with high potential for solving social problems – would have struggled to promote their “Everyone a Changemaker” vision.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, August 13, 2012 — No Region Specified

Is Your Social Venture Really Worth Scaling?

Source: Harvard Business Review
Although scaling is the holy grail for most social entrepreneurs, not everyone should attempt it. In a previous post, I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces). Before a social entrepreneur gets to work building those capabilities, however, it makes sense to ask the question: Is this venture really ready to scale?
TAGS:scale, social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, August 08, 2012 — No Region Specified

Impact Engine Announces Inaugural Class of 2012

Source: The Impact Engine
CHICAGO, August 8, 2012 — Impact Engine, a new accelerator that supports for-profit businesses trying to make the world a better place, welcomes eight early stage companies into the program’s first-ever class. From empowering women in rural India to improving education in the United States to providing renewable energy to the people of Africa, the 2012 class includes a diverse group of entrepreneurs tackling both domestic and global challenges.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, social impact
Wednesday, August 08, 2012 — No Region Specified

4 Tips On Scaling From Open-Source Pioneers

Source: Forbes
How do you quickly scale an innovation? The industrial-age strategy is well-understood: A generation ago, when General Motors wanted to sell more cars, it scraped together a few billion dollars in capital; built factories; hired designers, engineers, assemblers and patent attorneys; and pumped new Buicks and Caddies through its captive dealer network.
TAGS:scale, social entrepreneur
Thursday, August 02, 2012 — No Region Specified

74 Million Served, and Counting: 10th Annual Class of Global Social Entrepreneurs Coming to Silicon Valley

Source: Market Watch
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Anuj Sharma's startup company, Sarvajal, has found a way to bring clean water to thousands of households in rural India, who would otherwise have to walk miles or drink disease-causing dirty water. Sarvajal dispenses water from solar-powered, ATM-like machines. Customers pay around $3 a month with their cell phones, and special mobile technology alerts the company if there are problems with any of its 157 franchised machines.
TAGS:business development, social entrepreneur, startup
Wednesday, August 01, 2012 — No Region Specified

University Impact Fund Receives $100,000 Grant from Sorenson Impact Foundation

Source: Market Watch
SALT LAKE CITY, Jul 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Sorenson Impact Foundation Founder James Lee Sorenson is a Champion of Social Entrepreneurship. The University Impact Fund (UIF) today announced the receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Sorenson Impact Foundation, which will go towards improving operations and strengthening the program.
TAGS:investment fund, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 — No Region Specified

Is Wall Street a Good Training Ground for Social Entrepreneurs?

Source: Forbes
Luanne Zurlo is the founder of Worldfund, an organization dedicated to improving education in Latin American countries. We recently featured one of her collaborations with the Rassias Center for language. Here we return to Luanne to learn more about her, and about her involvement in this organization that facilitates the education of so many Latin Americans.
TAGS:Microfinance, poverty alleviation, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 — No Region Specified

America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs: 2012 Winners

Source: Bloomberg Business Week
For our fourth annual roundup of promising social entrepreneurs, we asked readers to submit suggestions, narrowed them to 25 for-profit social enterprises, then asked readers to vote for their favorite. Over the past month, more than 7,500 readers cast their votes. Their top five picks follow:
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Friday, July 27, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian shoemaker takes great strides

Source: BBC
Eight years ago Ethiopia's Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu decided to sell cool colourful shoes made of recycled materials, including car tyres.
TAGS:entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, startup
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 — South Asia

Grassroots entrepreneurship helps alleviate poverty

Source: The Financial Express
Bangladesh has positioned itself in global community as a forward-looking nation, with firm footprint on path of steady, accelerating growth and development towards rapid poverty elimination and eventual prosperity. Bangladesh has achieved fairly steep decline in poverty over the past two decades from 57.0 per cent in the 1990s to 31.5 per cent in 2011. According to the latest projections of the Planning Commission, poverty will come down further to 26.4 per cent in FY 2012-13.
TAGS:poverty alleviation, social entrepreneur
Monday, July 16, 2012 — No Region Specified

Social Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation: Not the Same Thing

Source: CSRWire
At the UN Social Innovation Summit held at the end of May in New York City, a plenary panelist stated that social enterprises and social innovation are “really the same thing.” This conclusion was not questioned and appeared to be a point of view the conference leaders and speakers were eager to adopt.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Monday, July 09, 2012 — No Region Specified

Social Entrepreneur Wins SVN Hall of Fame Award

Source: Justmeans
Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, an organization promoting social entrepreneurship, has been recently named as one of the Social Venture Network's (SVN) Hall of Fame Impact Award Winners as a Visionary Social Entrepreneur. The award is a well-deserved recognition of her pioneering work in the field of social entrepreneurship.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — No Region Specified

From Hotel Uniforms To Life-Saving Water Filters: Evolving The Humanitarian Entrepreneurship Model

Source: Fast Company
In recent years, investments in global public health have created opportunities for private innovators, technology developers, and business investors to join the fight against infectious diseases affecting people in developing countries. Such private entities are focusing their innovative platforms on developing technological breakthroughs for the most vulnerable people, often in the most extreme situations. As a result, a new business model, "humanitarian entrepreneurship," is being shaped by innovators at all levels. Here, doing good is good for business.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, water
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 — No Region Specified

Village Capital seeks to help entrepreneurs with social purpose

Source: AJC.com
Entrepreneurial accelerator programs, where early-stage companies can get advice and sometimes funding, are not uncommon. When 15 startup businesses got together in Atlanta this spring for a 10-week program put on by the nonprofit organization Village Capital, however, it was something different.
TAGS:business development, investment fund, social entrepreneur
Monday, June 25, 2012 — No Region Specified

Making the market a force for good

Source: The Guardian
When women in Haiti added fruit flavouring to purified water and sold it to their peers, an impromptu community business was born. While the main aim was a health-related one – the women used purifying sachets distributed after the 2010 earthquake to clean the water – the unforeseen knock-on effect involved women educating their peers about not drinking contaminated water and running their own mini-enterprise.
TAGS:social entrepreneur, social impact
Monday, June 25, 2012 — Asia Pacific

The new sexy: Social entrepreneurship

Source: Rappler
MANILA, Philippines - “We want to make social entrepreneurship sexy,” says Karl Satinitigan, the 24-year-old director of Gawad Kalinga’s Center for Social Innovation or CSI, a program that trains aspiring social entrepreneurs.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Thursday, June 21, 2012 — No Region Specified

Job landscape changes spark new hybrid between corporate and non-profit worlds

Source: Washington Post
The for- and non-profit landscapes are merging to create a new class of organization leader. Generally called social entrepreneurs, these individuals leverage for-profit models to solve some of the world’s most in­trac­table problems — endeavors usually undertaken by traditional non-profits.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Friday, June 15, 2012 — South Asia

Kalpna Saroj: One of the Few Women Social Entrepreneurs in India

Source: Just Means
Kalpna Saroj is an Indian social entrepreneur whose rag to riches story reads like a Bollywood script. Born into the caste of an Indian 'Dalit,' where she was formerly an "untouchable" and bullied at school; forced into marriage at the age of 12, and then fought social pressures to leave her husband; finally, overcoming poverty and physical abuse, she becomes CEO of a multi-million dollar company: a true heroine!
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 — No Region Specified

Dell awards $50,000 to top student social innovator, Apl.de.ap rocks the Moody Theater

Source: Cuture Map Austin
Entrepreneurship is the answer to almost every single problem we have in the world today. So says Daniel Epstein, founder of the Unreasonable Institute, as he spoke in front of the crowd of 200-plus gathered at the Moody Theater Tuesday night for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge awards.
TAGS:multinational corporation, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya: Equity's Mwangi Tops the World Again

Source: All Africa
Nairobi, Kenya — Equity Bank's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director James Mwangi, has been voted the 2012 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year at a colorful ceremony held in Monte Carlo, Monaco over the weekend.
TAGS:financial inclusion, social entrepreneur
Friday, June 08, 2012 — No Region Specified

Financing social entrepreneurs

Source: The Guardian Blog
When social entrepreneur Luke Dowdney needed to raise funds two years ago to support Fight for Peace, the charity he founded that teaches boxing and martial arts to at-risk youth to reduce violence in gang-ridden communities, he didn't go the usual route of looking for donations. Instead he launched LUTA, a martial arts-based sportswear company featuring street wear created by young designers from the tough Brazilian neighbourhoods where Fight for Peace began.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Friday, June 01, 2012 — No Region Specified

Some entrepreneurs change the world, and make money doing it

Source: USA Today
Entrepreneurs change the world. Some develop new products or services that meet real needs or delight customers. Some create new jobs. Increasingly, entrepreneurs and small-business owners want a more direct, positive effect on our planet and its people. They want to use their entrepreneurial skills and attitudes to tackle some of the globe's most pressing issues.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 — Europe & Eurasia

What Exactly Is Social Entrepreneurship?

Source: Forbes
We’re talking about success and social value. Today many people lump this in a special category: social entrepreneurship. We’re not sure exactly what that is, so we’re interested in learning more. As it turns out, so were two Tuck class of 2013 students, Christopher Halstedt and Brad Callow. This past spring they did an independent study Senior Associate Dean Bob Hansen and Gregg on exactly this topic. They set out to see if they could understand what exactly is social entrepreneurship and how it creates social value. Here are some excerpts from what they found:
TAGS:social entrepreneur, social impact
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 — Asia Pacific

The ‘Grandfather’ of Social Enterprise, Steve Lawrence Dies

Source: Pro Bono Australia
The man described as the the grandfather of social enterprise in Australia, Steve Lawrence has died after a long battle with cancer aged 60.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Thursday, May 17, 2012 — Europe & Eurasia

Social Edge to Merge with Skoll World Forum

Source: Skoll Foundation/Press Release
The Skoll Foundation today announced the merging of Social Edge and Skoll World Forum into a new year-round platform, Skoll World Forum Online:
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Monday, May 14, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Social Innovators in Africa Awarded

Source: Justmeans
Five African social innovators have been included in the World Economic Forum's list of Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2012. The awards were announced at the Ethiopian summit of the WEF by Klaus Schwab, founder and Executive Chairman of WEF.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Tuesday, May 08, 2012 — Asia Pacific

5 Clever Hacks for Becoming a Social Entrepreneur

Source: Forbes
Social entrepreneurs create innovative solutions for tackling the world’s most vexing social problems. Whether they’re solving hunger, improving the environment, or fighting for political freedom, these entrepreneurs place social missions at the center of their business activities — aiming to maximize social value instead of profits, though both are important for maintaining a sustainable organization.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Thursday, May 03, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

This Man Can't Stop Innovating

Source: Inc.
Nothing beats the economics and ingenuity of a great dual-use product. On a scorching February day, Moses Kizza Musaazi stands behind the latrines at Mpigi UMEA Primary School, describing the features of his portable incinerator. The mud at his feet is red. So are the uniforms of the children who surge and subside in waves as he delivers his tutorial.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Tony Elumelu Foundation, Co-Creation Hub in Partnership to Give Social Technology Entrepreneurs Boost

Source: WorldStage
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an institution dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa, is partnering with Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHub), Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space dedicated to catalysing creative social technology ventures, in an effort to encourage innovative ideas that could help transform the social technology space in Nigeria.
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur, technology
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 — No Region Specified

Impact Investing: How One Foundation Empowers Social Entrepreneurs

Source: Mashable
Name: Echoing Green | Big Idea: Echoing Green offers grants to social entrepreneurs and changemakers — it’s referred to as “impact investing.” | Why It’s Working: By investing in people rather than ideas or business plans, Echoing Green has empowered more than 500 innovative individuals to turn their visions into a reality, ameliorating social ills in the process.
TAGS:impact investing, social capital, social entrepreneur
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 — South Asia

'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' India 2012 Awards is Open for Entries

Source: afaqs!
Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship are pleased to announce the 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' Award for 2012 for India. Applicants are invited to participate and share their innovation. The deadline for receiving first round applications is May 31, 2012. Finalists will then be selected following an intensive search and selection process, including expert reviews and site visits. The winner will be announced at a ceremony coinciding with the India Economic Summit in November 2012 in New Delhi.
TAGS:social entrepreneur
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 — No Region Specified

Avoiding the “Hope Bubble”

Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
We must invest in the financial literacy of social entrepreneurs and in the social literacy of investors.
TAGS:financial inclusion, impact investing, social entrepreneur
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 — No Region Specified

Ashoka, Bamboo Finance, Canopus Fdn. Launch Solar Energy Fund

Source: Press Release
Press Release: Three of the world's leading organisations supporting social enterprise for development today announced that they are forming a partnership to launch the 'Oasis Energy - Solar for All Fund', which will invest in companies bringing affordable solar power to markets that are without access to electricity. Ashoka , the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs, and the Canopus Foundation , whi...
TAGS:social enterprise, social entrepreneur
Monday, January 01, 1900 — Asia Pacific

The new sexy: Social entrepreneurship

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