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How social enterprises are combatting modern slavery
Rich McEachran explains how social enterprises are a sustainable solution to modern slavery worldwide
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Weekly Roundup: Honoring Greg Dees
Real innovators disassemble, tinker, and then reassemble the known parts of a thing - any thing - to create something new and lasting. That’s what J. Gregory Dees did in defining social entrepreneurship 16 years ago in his paper “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.” Dees passed away last month, leaving a legacy for the academic study of social entrepreneurship.
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China: State monopolies give way to social enterprise
As the state loosens its grip on public services in China, Beijing is sending strong signals that social innovation and investment will be driving forces of a refreshed public services system. Adam Pillsbury from the British Council explains the new dynamics of social enterprise in China.
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Rethinking Impact and Redefining Success: Highlights from Unite for Sight’s Social Entrepreneurship Institute
Unite For Sight recently hosted its inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Institute, a day-long event dedicated to social entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors, including health care. Speakers focused on several key best practices in social entrepreneurship, from beginning an organization to measuring impact and eventually scaling up.
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Spreading hope one box at a time
Over 20 artists share their works to aid victims of typhoon ‘Yolanda’
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A New Way to ‘Experience’ Favelas: A social enterprise bringing tourists and favela residents under one roof
Favela Experience offers authentic room and apartment rentals to travelers in Rio’s safe and vibrant favela communities. The social venture aims to generate sustainable income for favela host families while breaking negative stereotypes about favelas.
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Building an India-Africa Pipeline – Part One: Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference focuses on South-South social innovation transfer
How can an India-Africa innovation transfer be hastened? What are the risks? That will be the top agenda point of Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference, an industry gathering of more 350 funders, entrepreneurs, intermediaries and others on Feb 12-13 in Nairobi.
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Tata Social Enterprise conference – expect the unconventional
Leaders from across the sector gathered to offer their guidance and advice to aspiring social entrepreneurs
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