Social Entrepreneurship conferences
Ever wished you could go to an amazing, inspiring, really interesting conference just to find out that it is either to expensive, to far away or simple that the conference happened 2 weeks before you first heard of it? The great news is that most conferences now use social media to dissimilate their message to [...]
Challenges for young social entrepreneurs in Asia
Link: http://changehack.com/?p=13 Notes on young social entrepreneurs in Asia region: 1. Challenges facing young social entrepreneurs in Asia. Capital, there is a funding gap as they can’t really go to bank (these guys are not maximizing profit!) or traditional donors (whoops these guys make money!) Local scale-up funding is even more difficult although there are [...]
Asia’s Social Action Hero’s: Lily Wang
China’s first AIDS case was reported in Beijing in 1985 and in 2003, it was estimated that there were 840,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in China. In 2005, there were an estimated 70,000 new HIV infections (range: 60,000 to 80,000), and there were an estimated 25,000 AIDS deaths (range: 20,000 to 30,000). The epidemic is [...]
Social Entrepreneurs in China
I found a publication from 2006 entitled “Social Enterprise and UK and China perspective”. The book by Ding Kaijie from the China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics provides an insight into the state of Social Enterprises in China. He highlights: Since the 1990s, social enterprise, a new international development, has emerged within the third [...]
South Asia Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship
The Centre for Training and Research in Responsible Business & Social Entrepreneurship is organizing a 2-day workshop on “Social Entrepreneurship: An Introductory Workshop for Non Profits” on April 16-17, 2009 at Accountability House, A-5, Sector 26, Noida (India). The workshop is designed for CSR personnel in corporate houses, Social Entrepreneurs, NGOs, and students and will [...]
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