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Microsoft, Accenture Join to Provide Tech Support to Social Enterprise Startups
Through the programme, Microsoft Research India and Accenture Labs will help social enterprise startups test and validate proof-of-concepts, conduct design thinking sessions to help them re-envision the impact of their solutions, and provide support in exploring and using Microsoft technologies.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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Microsoft, Accenture join to provide tech support to social enterprise startups
Intending to help deepen the reach of entrepreneurs and start-ups that are focused on social impact and sustainability, the joint initiative by Microsoft and Accenture aims to provide hands-on support and technologies to social enterprises, helping them build scalable solutions and business models that can lead to more tangible and lasting benefits.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- South Asia
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- startups
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My High-Profile Social Enterprise Shut Down, but It Wasn’t a Total Failure
Inspired by Broad Street Ministry‘s work on behalf of our fellow Philadelphians who are the most vulnerable, our local comfort food chain, Federal Donuts, set out to shine a light on the idea that hospitality is a fundamental human need.
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- Social Enterprise
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- North America
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- failure
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Kennedy School to Create New ‘Social Enterprise Incubator’
As it revisits major aspects of its curriculum in conjunction with its capital campaign, the Kennedy School of Government is in the early stages of creating a new “social enterprise incubator,” according to HKS spokesperson Doug Gavel.
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- Social Enterprise
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5 Ways To Avoid Failure, From Social Enterprises That Didn’t
We've all been to an endless procession of conferences where shiny, successful people share their triumphs and "best practices" to rounds of applause. There's plenty of such puffery in the private sector, but if anything, the pressure to please donors and stakeholders by making it seem like everything's going great is even higher in the social entrepreneurship space--even when it's not.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Why we must talk more about failure in social enterprise
Last year, in a live Q&A on planning for success and failure, some of the experts talked about using business failure as a valuable learning experience. One expert even said that in the US you're more likely to get finance if you have the knowledge of failure under your belt.
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- Social Enterprise
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Tackling food waste through a social enterprise model
The founder of social enterprise Rubies in the Rubble, proves that you can run a company with a business head and a charitable heart
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Social Business Corporations
Two weeks ago, there was a government assembly and the Prime Minister presented new projects for the government. As Kazakhstan Today reports, Social Business Corporations were on the list. ?Sara Arka? will be the first, to be established in Karaganda (because the akim there was on the ball, they say). By the end of the year, six more will be established in the regions. These corporations were first brought up in the President?s Annual Message to the People in February of 2006:
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- Social Enterprise
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- corporations
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