Call For Applications for IISE 2012 Program

The International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (IISE) empowers people that have overcome significant life challenges ranging from vision impairment, disability, poverty, war, discrimination and exploitation in order to help them in setting up their own social project. It trains its participants in skills like management, public speaking, communication, leadership, fund raising, budgeting, bookkeeping, marketing and [...]

Twenty-Three Social Entrepreneurs Chosen for Global Social Benefit Incubator

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (Business Wire) Nearly two dozen social ventures with missions like providing biofuel to Tanzanian farmers, turning pine needles into cooking gas in India, and providing cell phones to Sub-Saharan Africans, have been chosen to join Santa Clara University’s eighth annual Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBITM). GSBI is a fully funded, 12-month [...]

view: How to encourage Social entrepreneurship in B-schools in India

Druvh Lakhra, founder of social enterprise Mirakle Courier, recently voiced his opinion how to facilitate social entrepreneurship among b-schools in India: He points out two issues on the subject of the wider space of social entrepreneurship and careers in the nonprofit sector. The first one is related to the branding and perception of the social [...]

Call for applications: Eco-entrepreneurship training in China

The Global Environmental Institute (GEI) announced its Call for Applications for its Eco Entrepreneurship Training – Year 2 Programme. The Training will be focused on helping entrepreneurs to develop innovative business that help to trigger China’s environmental and resources depletion problems. Courses will include environmental problem in-depth analysis, business oppotunity identification and on-going business model [...]

Opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs

Do you have the next big business idea and need some support to get it off the ground? Check out opportunities for training, mentoring and business planning: Sprout – e-course for social innovators and environmental entrepreneurs Sprout is an e-course for young people who want to grow their social or environmental project idea and learn [...]

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 [...]

Entrepreneurship education in Jakarta

The number of unemployed in Indonesia today is around 9 million based on figures from the Manpower Ministry. But other institutions put the figure far higher, at 25million. Several schools have introduced entrepreneurship as a full-fledged subject and have organized activities in which students can develop their entrepreneurial know-how. Nugrohodi, a chemistry teacher at Sugar [...]

Few university students start own businesses

Less than 2.9% of chinese university students have started their own businesses although more than 80% want to do so, according to a report issued Monday by education officials. Xue Mingyang, director of the Shanghai Education Commission, said that this contrast means entrepreneurship education needs to be improved. Only 26% of the city’s colleges have [...]

Suning supports entrepreneurial students in Beijing

Chinese electronics retailer Suning has signed an agreement with three universities in Beijing to be their designated entrepreneurial base to help university students find jobs and to improve their employment status. The three universities involved are Beijing Forestry University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Beijing Normal University. Under the agreement, Suning will [...]

INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program open for application

The INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program focuses on the business skills and frameworks that will help entrepreneurs grow their social ventures and improve their effectiveness and social impact. The discussion of case studies developed by ISEP’s faculty provides a platform to analyse the complex issues and challenges that social entrepreneurs face. In addition, ISEP creates a [...]