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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Give Keynote Address at Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

OXFORD, England, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Skoll World Forum is the leading international platform for accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues. The theme for the 2011 Forum is ’Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks and collaborative action.’ The programme covers a wide variety of complex global issues such as water, energy, food security, climate change, peace and security, social equity and eme...

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Sys-Con Media (link opens in a new window)

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Europe & Eurasia

Hart: Next-Gen BoP Requires a Green Leap

Anyone who has read his work or had the pleasure of speaking with Stuart Hart knows he has clear views on what is green and what it isn’t. Hart co-edited the book, Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid and contributed a chapter, "Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid." He explains what clean tech really means.

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Education

Sa?d Business School: US Marines Call on Social Entrepreneur in Afghanistan

When Connie Duckworth received a call from the office of Commanding General of the Marines First Expeditionary Force operating in Afghanistan, she was surprised to say the least. Ms Duckworth is a social entrepreneur working in poor rural communities in Afghanistan well beyond the theatre of war. The Marines, however, had heard about her approach to developing sustainable economic growth within these communities and wanted to learn more. Ms Duckworth’s social venture ARZU has been w...

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The Financial (link opens in a new window)

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Education

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North Africa & Near East

Friday Roundup – 3/18/11: Failure IS An Option, but Don’t Fail At Learning

Failure grown into meme that has built business guru empires and flooded the speaker/seminar circuit. Adam Richardson, a creative director at global innovation firm frog design, advises that we shouldn’t "fetishize" failure, but learn from it. What has our sector learned from our failures and how are we applying them to future projects?

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ViewChange Video of the Week: Profits from Plastic in Ghana

Plastic waste is an enormous problem in the West African country Ghana. Everywhere you look, the streets are littered with empty water bags and bottles. This video tells the story of how a Dutch-Ghanaian recycling company, Cyclus, has found a way to create a cleaner environment, while creating hundreds of jobs and generating profit from waste.

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Education

’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises

The business model for the Asian Social Enterprise Incubator (ASEI), a Manila-based organization, is based on the assumption that what many social enterprises require is not necessarily access to office space and back-office services. Rather, they need a market-oriented management to direct the strategy and run the organization like a business.

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Guest Post: Listening to the Voices of Experience

Acumen Fund created the Global Fellows Program because we wanted to build a core group of leaders from across the globe who not only had the intellect, passion and business skills, but also the experience of serving low-income consumers in some of the most challenging environments in the world. Last month I got a glimpse into that complexity.

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Education, Social Enterprise

Patagonia, Adidas, Walmart Join Sustainable Apparel Coalition

What happens when you put executives from Walmart and Patagonia in a room? This isn’t the start of a bad joke--it’s how the Sustainable Apparel Coalition was born. The seeds of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition were planted in 2009 when Patagonia and Walmart teamed up to help the latter company create a sustainability assessment tool for its supply chain (Patagonia was also working o...

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Fast Company (link opens in a new window)

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Education

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Latin America