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2012년 4월 23일  Updated

Nation's Leading Social Enterprises Launch National Association of Social ...
India PRwire (press release)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, April 20, 2012 /India PRwire/ -- India's leading for-profit social enterprises have joined hands to launch an industry body, National Association of Social Enterprises, India (NASE India). Conceived by a core set of members, ...
Can Couponing Save Schools and Other Nonprofits? CommonKindness.com Says Yes
Beaumont Enterprise
CommonKindness, a new social enterprise, has developed a new coupon website that gives 20% of its revenues to nonprofit organizations every time one of its coupons is redeemed. “Everyone is really excited about this new model, from the brand managers ...
One-Stop Incubators Hatching Social Enterprise Startups
Forbes
But unlike other startups, social enterprises also have to wrestle with all sorts of other pesky issues–determining how to measure the success of their non-financial goals, say, or what type of investors might want to take a chance on them.

2012년 4월 20일  Updated

Social enterprises sector regains as investors shed cautious outlook
Economic Times
The social enterprise sector in India is on the path of recovery as investors continue to shed their cautious outlook on missiondriven businesses, after a lean period following the microfinance crisis of 2010. Social enterprises cater to the base of ...
Are Social Entrepreneurs Too Idealistic?
Dowser
Social entrepreneurs often strive toward achieving a 'triple bottom line.' But are they side-stepping questions of politics? Are social entrepreneurs too idealistic? David Brooks thinks so. In his recent Times column, he wrote that “young idealists” ...
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Social enterprise companies in East London get Santander cash awards
East London Advertiser
Two social enterprises in East London have landed £45000 between them to help grow their businesses. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include the name and email address you gave us when ...
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The 'Five W's' of a successful social enterprise | SocialEarth
By JC
What is a social enterprise? What does it do? What is it for? Why is it necessary? What can it achieve? Journalism has five W's (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

2012년 4월 16일  Updated

Social entrepreneurship fastest growing sector of economy
Dynamic Business
Social entrepreneurship has grown 37 percent in the past five years, making it one of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian economy, new research has revealed. The research by Opportunity International Australia (OIA), which was undertaken to ...

Social Enterprise Means Reaching Our Highest Potential
Huffington Post (blog)
While the impact or "social enterprise" sector may still be small, it's likely to grow as more people express interest in finding meaningful work. As one of the founders of Rework, Nathaniel Koloc, told me,"For many people, work becomes meaningful when ...

Social Enterprise Supporting Microfinance in India
Justmeans
Intellecap is a unique social enterprise in India working with a small profit motive combined with a serious social mandate to cater to the masses at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Intellecap operates as an advisory enterprise in the area of ...

Solving the 'Last Mile' Challenges of Social Enterprise
Knowledge@Wharton
On Friday, iDE and fellow finalists Komaza, a social enterprise that works with rural dry land farmers in Kenya to grow trees as a cash crop, and MedShare, which collects surplus medical supplies and equipment in the US and ships them to in-need areas ...

The Social Enterprise Needs to Start with the Individual
IT Business Edge (blog)
Given that reality, Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski says that for all the talk about the social enterprise these days, increasing productivity needs to begin and end with the individual. As such, the social enterprise needs to first and foremost be ...

Big thumbs up for social enterprises
Edinburgh Evening News
THE national body set up to represent social enterprises is urging councils in Scotland to recognise the benefits of businesses with social goals. Social Enterprise Scotland said that at a time when local authorities were making cutbacks, ...

Social Enterprise ROI: Measuring the Immeasurable
CMSWire
In reality we have very little to prove the worth of the Social Enterprise. We have some academic studies, we have some anecdotal evidence, a few (very few) published use cases where metrics are involved, and we have a whole lot of “it makes sense, ...

2012년 4월 13일  Update

 

Promoting Social Enterprise in Ghana
Justmeans
Playing for Changing foundation in Africa and its senior partner Tigo have chosen two social entrepreneurs to provide them support and networking to expand the scope of their work. Towards the end of 2011, Tigo and Playing for Changing had invited ...

Social enterprise may offer an answer to the Occupy movement
The Corsair
Boxed Water is an example of a social enterprise, a for-profit company whose business model seeks to positively impact the planet or society, and who operates business in a way that is both sustainable and socially conscious.

Helping Social Entrepreneurs Succeed: Lessons From 10 Years of the GSBI
Huffington Post
We have just selected and will soon announce the 10th Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) cohort. The GSBI helps field-based social entrepreneurs build sustainable and scalable ventures that deliver essential goods and services to poor communities ...

Estate leads the way in social enterprise
Chester Standard
VITAl servicees involving youth health, crime, environment and more will be put under the spotlight as part of a groundbreaking social enterprise programme for Blacon. Blacon Asset Management Company (BAMCO), jointly owned by Cheshire West and Chester ...

Social Enterprise Boss Delivers Master Class
Cumnock Chronicle
Would be social entrepreneurs in Cumnock were given a master class on starting community based enterprises by Peter Holbrook, the Chief Executive of the Social Enterprise UK. Peter gave the keynote speech at a Social Enterprise workshop in Netherthird ...

Big Society Capital 'will help social enterprise'
BBC News
Patrick Shine is executive director at FranchisingWorks, a social enterprise that helps unemployed people to set up their own businesses. He told the BBC "social enterprise is all about being business-like". Patrick Shine.

SK Group's Chey tells forum about importance of social enterprises
The Korea Herald
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday proposed sharing knowhow on social enterprises with Chinese partners on the sidelines of an international economic forum held in China's province of Hainan. Chey spoke about SK's experiences in supporting social ...

A workscape perspective | Social Enterprise Today
There are few best practices for the network era workplace, but definitely many next practices to ...

Senscot launches voluntary code of conduct for Scottish social enterprises
Third Sector
By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 28 March 2012 A voluntary code of conduct for the Scottish social enterprise sector that rules out the payment of profits to shareholders was launched yesterday by the social entrepreneurs body Senscot.

Can social entrepreneurs and big business be happily married?
TrustLaw (blog)
For social entrepreneurs, getting into bed with a big corporation is more than just a financial lifeline. They try to drive transformative change for a more equitable society, which is what sets them apart from large profit-driven businesses.

Google's Remarkable Plan to Dominate the Social Enterprise
Forbes
Despite serious competition from Enterprise collaboration heavy weights, IBM and Microsoft, I'm pleased Google is climbing into the ring. Because what we need is another Social Business fighter. But not just any fighter, one that understands that the ...

Cape Town's Women Take the Lead in Farm-Focused Social ...
By Michael Levenston
Despite daily hurdles, Small and his staff are successfully running a hybrid social enterprise that provides training, financial support, and food security to small farmers. The roughly 15000 people Abalimi reaches—3000 farmers, with an ...

A Perfect Storm for Social Enterprises?
By Ignacio Mas
Interest in the social enterprise sector will continue to grow because it lies at the confluence of several powerful trends. There are three inter-linked themes: the search for new approaches to the challenges of development, the spirit of ...


New Study: 'Socially Engaged' Companies See 4X Greater Business Impact
MarketWatch (press release)
The research identifies six types of socially engaged enterprises and provides insights for organizations that want both to measure themselves against peers and find the right strategy for improving business and economic impact from their investments ...

Social enterprises need a 'business brain'
Cambridge First
Social enterprises from across the east of England are being given the chance to become more business-minded at a free event at Anglia Ruskin University. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below.

How big can social enterprise be?
Social Enterprise Live
Karen Lynch, Belu CEO, will be speaking in the 'How can social enterprise grow?' plenary at the Social Enterprise Exchange Ask not how you can work with big business, but how big your business can be, argues Karen Lynch, CEO of ethical bottled water ...

Manchester University students' Uni & Co Clothing wins Business Champions award
Manchester Evening News
The contest gives undergraduates the chance to turn a business idea into a profitable enterprise, with all proceeds going to the School for Social Entrepreneurs charity. The quartet's Uni & Co Clothing idea triumphed after their business plan, ...

Getting Social, but Missing the Tools
Information Management
March 23, 2012 – Although more enterprises are using hashtags and wall posts than ever before, most are lacking the enterprise tools and internal governance policies to fully harness social media data, according to a new survey from CompTIA.


Reflections on a year in the Spotlight and the Social Entrepreneurs ...
By Sarah Tucker
The latest event from the Social Entrepreneurs Network (on Wednesday 7th March) drew to a close the first and pilot year of Social Enterprise Spotlight. Hopefully you've heard about the network and the Spotlight initiative but if not here's a ...

Mumbai Social Enterprise Journey: Meet and Learn from India's ...
By Vallabh Rao
An opportunity to meet and learn from Mumbai's most inspiring social entrepreneurs as part of Sankalp Forum.


Top tips for establishing a healthcare social enterprise ...
By lcreighton
Since it was introduced in 2008, the Department of Health's right to request scheme has enabled 25000 people to spin-out of the NHS and become social enterprises. 45 social enterprises were established through the scheme and collectively ...

Entrepreneur says social enterprise best model for the future
The Online Zamboanga Times
CEBU CITY — An entrepreneur has said that social enterprise, aside from helping the less fortunate, is the best business model for the future. Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) general membership meeting, Microventures Inc. president ...

The Outlier
Manila Bulletin
But not Ponce Ernest P. Samaniego who at 21 is already running his own social enterprise, has represented the Philippines in various youth summits abroad, and has been cited as one of the Young Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum.

New Turkish constitution could promote socially responsible entrepreneurs
Sunday's Zaman
A truly civilian-inspired constitution cannot be drafted without seeking the opinions of citizens, including, of course, those of Turkish entrepreneurs. Issues at stake are not only absolutely justified demands like the freedom to open up private ...


Enterprise sets up service centres for livestock farmers
Business Daily Africa
By DAVID HERBLING (email the author) A social enterprise has opened 16 livestock service centres to help farmers improve production through better extension services. Sidai Africa, owned by Farm Africa, has stepped in to fill a void left in the early ...

Top 5 business benefits of social enterprise tools
ITworld.com
By Chris Nerney Add a new comment March 19, 2012, 4:06 PM — Despite the glut of social media and networking tools available, really, for several years now, enterprises are only beginning to leverage social applications, new research from CompTIA ...

 

Social Enterprise: Two Big Global Brands Join Forces to Promote the Importance ...
Justmeans
MGM Resorts International (MGM) and Cirque du Soleil®, two big global brands, are showing their commitment to social enterprise as they join forces to support ONE DROP, an international charity that promotes the importance of water, one of the planet's ...
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Social Enterprise: Two Big Global Brands Join Forces to Promote the Importance ...
Justmeans
MGM Resorts International (MGM) and Cirque du Soleil®, two big global brands, are showing their commitment to social enterprise as they join forces to support ONE DROP, an international charity that promotes the importance of water, one of the planet's ...

Case Study: Investors for a social enterprise
Financial Times
Initially, the only backers interested in providing capital to Movirtu were “impact investors”, who expected the return on their money to include a measurable social good. But as Movirtu began to establish its reputation, more traditional venture ...

Social enterprise aims to create training opportunities for Neets
The Northern Echo
A NEW social enterprise aiming to increase training opportunities for unemployed youngsters across the North-East, is set to be rolled out in the Tees Valley next month. The Darlington based Community Impact Enterprise's (CIE) first project was ...

Social Enterprise and Impact Investment Management Fellowship ...
By Christina
Scouts assist Village Capital in either managing / setting-up existing social enterprise accelerator programs, or searching for new potential accelerator opportunities around the globe. A scout's primary responsibility is working to connect social ...

Expanding Social Presence Can Have Positive Impact on Business Operations, New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
For businesses the social space can be divided into two categories: public social media sites and social enterprise tools that bring social capabilities into an organization's business processes. "Social enterprise tools incorporate the characteristics ...

Enterprises that benefit community
This is Plymouth
A SCHEME to train young people as bicycle mechanics, another that teaches car valetting to disabled people and a photographic archive will vie for the Social Enterprise category at The Herald Business Awards. This honour will go to a business, ...

Runa Amazon Guayusa Tea: An Insider's Advice on Creating a Social Enterprise ...
CSRwire.com (press release)
Starting a green business or social enterprise from scratch requires a certain amount of determination and patience. Building on his research background, and after working tirelessly to get his Runa Tea idea off the ground, Tyler wasn't afraid to make ...

Students put winning business plan into action
Inquirer.net
University of Cebu-Banilad students win the “I am a Changemaker” Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition. Contributed photo CEBU CITY—They only wanted to win a business plan competition and bring home the top prize of P100,000.

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