Totes Amaze The designers behind accessories brand Tathata (www.fb.com/tathatabrand) hooked up with the doctors at Nanh Hospital in Northern Thailand to transform used dialysis bags into fashionable totes, and all for a good cause. The Kiddee Project, which refers to the Thai word for “think positive,” aims to generate funds for the hospital’s kidney disease patients. The
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New York, NY – Acumen, the nonprofit global venture fund, announced today the launch of Acumen America, a portfolio of American social enterprises focused on tackling poverty within the United States. Since its founding in 2001, Acumen has invested $101 million to build nearly 100 innovative enterprises addressing the problems of poverty in Africa, South Asia and Latin
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The World Health Organization estimates 1 billion people across the world live with disabilities, and Google’s philanthropy division, Google.org, just pledged $20 million to help improve their situations. The money is spread across 29 programs working on disability technologies — the average amount they’ll each receive is $750,000, with six of the grant winners getting
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Re-Read, a Doncaster social enterprise, is rescuing books destined for landfill and distributing them to young readers. Its founder talks to Alison Flood Jim McLaughlin measures books in tons, not pages. It was the sight of a skip filled with 10 tons of books which set the self-described environmental bibliophile on a path which has now
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Globally, the births of more than 50 million children – representing 40 per cent of the total births worldwide – go unregistered each year. Without formal registration, children are unable to access vital services. They are also more vulnerable to exploitation, violence and abuse. The importance of legal identity has also been recognized in the
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Comedian turned activist opens social enterprise that will employ recovering drug addicts on east London housing estate that fought off evictions. East London is not short of coffee shops. But one unassuming cafe, next door to a printing shop and a barber, and opposite Hackney’s New Era housing estate, has no intention of becoming the next hot
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The theme dominating the National Housing Federation’s (NHF) Communications and Marketing Conference was how housing associations can better tell their stories to encourage public support. CEO of the NHF David Orr set out the agenda for the day: “The creation of the narrative and the telling of the story is as important as being confident about having
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While some may feel uncomfortable making money from the poor, social enterprise and emergency ambulance operator Ziqitza, estimates it has saved thousands of lives Set up in 2005, Ziqitza, an emergency ambulance operator, brings affordable healthcare to some of India’s poorest people. The social enterprise operates around 1,250 ambulances across 17 Indian states. By its own
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Empowering  youths  in  the  communities with more  career and  self-help  opportunities is     rucial to achieving a better future for all. This holds true for 23-year-old Miss Chinenye  Ogoko, president, Future Blueprints, a social enterprise based  in  Owerri, the Imo State capital. She is empowering youths by building their skills as problem solvers and to  succeed
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