Archive for Hong Kong

ASVA Countdown: Lay Ho Hong Kong

Now that you know a little bit more about our ASVA host city, Hong Kong, we have a few other surprising facts to share with you.

ASVA Countdown: Hong Kong 101

This week’s Countdown to ASVA blog will focus on the beautiful metropolis of Hong Kong. We’re proud to claim Hong Kong as this year’s host of the Asia Social Venture Academy. From the rowdy bubble tea stalls of Kowloon to the laid-back seaside markets of Stanley, from the boisterous happy hours of Lan Kwai Fong [...]

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 [...]

Fellowships for professionals in social Enterprises

If you are a young professional thinking about changing a career towards a job in a social enterprise or you just want to use your skills to help a mission-driven organization, check out these 3 fellowships who will place you in social enterprises in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Cambodia, India & Pakistan). 1. LGT Venture Philanthropy’s [...]

Business Week’s selection of Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs

Business Week has release their finalist list for the annual Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur award. The list includes 25 young entrepreneurs mainly from Indonesia, but also from Japan, Singapore and Korea. I found it astonishing to find no indian finalist in the list and their heavy reliance on winners from previous other entrepreneurship competition. Nevertheless [...]

Call for Social Enterprise Business Proposals from Hong Kong

Hong Kong Social Investment Forum – November 14, 2009 At this year’s SE Summit, there will be a special session known as the Social Investment Forum to provide a number of funders/investors who are keen to invest in social enterprises a platform to share their criteria for selecting investees. At the same Forum, max 3 [...]

Social enterprises revitalise Hong Kong’s historic buildings

Social Enterprise recently reported that Hong Kong’s commissioner for heritage is offering not-for-profit organizations substantial grants to establish social enterprises in government-owned historic buildings Jack Chan is inviting proposals from non-profit organisations to transform five government-owned buildings into ‘cultural landmarks’. Launching the scheme on 28 August, Chan said: ‘We hope that eligible non-profit organizations will [...]

Application deadline Asia Pacific Future 100!

7 days to go! Just a quick reminder that the application deadline for the Asia Pacific Future 100 program is approaching! 31st August 2009 Apply now and join the most outstanding community of young entrepreneurs and social Changemakers in Asia ! For info and applications: future100@fyse.org www.fyse.org

Join Social Innovation Salon in Hong Kong

Ventures in Development (www.venturesindev.org ) has launched a new initiative called the Social Innovation Salon . At each salon , we hope to create innovative ideas that address particular social issues. At each event, we will throw out 2 real world social issues. Participants are encouraged to form cross-disciplinary groups and brainstorm an innovative solution [...]

Still discussing… not moving forward a bit – The impact of the financial crisis on Youth in Asia 2

I recently blogged about the impact of the financial crisis in Youth. One of the key statistics was that Youth are also likely to be disproportionately affected by the crisis: already in 2008, youth in Asia were more than three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. In South-East Asia, the youth unemployment rate [...]