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WANTED: The World’s Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs

Convinced you have the entrepreneurial mettle to improve the lives of millions of people around the world? Accelerate your venture with mentorship from 50 seasoned entrepreneurs and practitioners, ranging from a Time Magazine Hero of the Planet, to the CTO of HP, to an entrepreneur who’s lifted over 19 million farmers out of poverty. In [...]

Database of social entrepreneurs impacting China’s education sector

The National Outline for Education Reform stipulates an increase of the federal education budget to 4% of China’s GDP by 2012. Vice Minister of Finance Ding Xuedong calls this “challenging because other sectors such as agriculture, science and technology, health care and social security need investment, too”. Most Chinese will bank on both central and [...]

Pitch in Hong Kong Social Investment Forum

The Social Investment Forum in “International Symposium of Social Enterprise Summit 2009” last year was a great success. Feedbacks from participants and organizers were highly encouraging. This year, the Social Investment Forum is scheduled for the afternoon of 20 November 2010, the second day of “International Symposium of Social Enterprise Summit 2010 (19 – 20 [...]

Eco-Entrepreneurship training project in China

The aim of the “Eco-Entrepreneurship Training Project” organized by GEI, a chinese environmental NGO, is to provide cutting-edge training for entrepreneurs to develop innovative and environmentally friendly businesses and to find common ground between environmental protection and economic development through the introduction of business opportunities in the environmental field. GEI hopes that these efforts will [...]

Distance Learning Diploma in Social Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India has launched a new 6-month distance course on social entrepreneurship. The main objective of this diploma is to create social enterprises which are essentially addressing the issues related to social development through distance learning and personal counseling.  This Diploma is mainly focused on various aspects of starting and managing [...]

ClearlySo: Social Business in Bangladesh

ClearlySo highlighted in an recent article that there is a great opportunity in Bangladesh to reduce poverty the income generating activities of more than 20,000 NGOs can be mobilized into successful social businesses. The have highlighted some common threads and problems; some clear reasons why those 20,000 NGOs are not migrating into social businesses: commercial [...]

Global Changemakers 4th Annual Global Summit

Are you active and engaged in your community? Are you a social entrepreneur? Are you between 16 and 19? Do you have a strong opinion on how to improve the state of the world and a passion for global economic, social and political affairs? The British Council is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for [...]

Barclays and Junior Achievement partner to empower Youth in India

Barclays Global Retail & Commercial Bank (GRCB) across its Emerging Market entities has partnered with US based Junior Achievement (JA) to implement 2 programs, B-INSPIRED for students in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kanchipuram and Junagadh and B-SMART for students in Mumbai and New Delhi, benefiting over 500 children across the country. Through the B – INSPIRED [...]