Archive for Hong Kong
Echoing Green Fellow Finalists 2009
Echoing Green announced this years 22 Finalists for their 2 year fellowship program. Selected fellows will receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable social change organizations. This year only 2 finalists from Asia are represented, compared to 5 fellows last year, including Maria So and [...]
Back to School 2 – HKCSS course on social entrepreneurship
The Hong Kong Council on Social Service provides an certificate course on social entrepreneurship for senior to middle level personnel in existing SE projects or those planning to start social business in both NGO and private sector. However, their website hasnt been updated for a little while so for course information please contact Ms. Jessica [...]
Facebook for China’s Farmers
A recent article by Melinda Liu of Newsweek about wokai in China: Take a couple of tech-savvy American college grads, 200 million poverty-stricken Chinese, the internet, a digital camera, and a healthy dose of altruism. What have you got? Nick Mackie reports from rural Sichuan on an innovative scheme to lend money to poor farmers: [...]
Social Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong
While activities around social entrepreneurship are depending on individual initiatives and not yet organized through a network Hong Kong seems to move forward much faster in supporting social entrepreneurship. During the past year a number of organizations and initiatives came up to support social entrepreneurs, to educate the public about SEs and raise awareness of [...]
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