Social enterprises here typically offer jobs to disadvantaged groups as part of their social mission. But more are starting to hire corporate professionals at the management level too, to help grow their businesses. One of them is Western food chain Eighteen Chefs, which employs at-risk youth and former offenders. Its new group chief executive once
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GBF began as an initiative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which piloted grassroots business investments and field-tested capacity-building approaches. GBF split from IFC and became an independent non-profit which continued investing in – and providing advisory services to – high-impact businesses in Latin America, Asia and Africa. GBF further evolved its model by establishing a $49M for-profit private investment
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to
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FPD was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Republic of the Philippines on December 7, 1993 with registration number AN94-197. It is a voluntary consortium of non-government organizations working together for greater effectiveness and synergy towards genuine people development through savings mobilization, values formation, entrepreneurial development, and business networking. FPD takes
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Charities and social enterprises that have got through their initial start-up phase but need vital help to succeed on the next stage of their journey are to benefit from more than £450k of subsidised support. In a completely new take on the standard ‘accelerator’ programmes offered to voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs), CAN is
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SIRUM (Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine) is a non-profit social enterprise started by Stanford University students to decrease the amount of medicine going to waste in the U.S. Using an innovative technology platform, SIRUM saves lives, time, and money by allowing health facilities, manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies to easily donate unused medicine rather than
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Aiming to generate an idea in which private enterprises find an extraordinary and profitable promotional jeans, which can be easily remembered, that generated royalty from potential consumers, while making a commitment to education and culture sharing with popular sectors, Cinepop is born. Promotional means in which investors, experts in MOVIES, COMMERCE and ADVERTISING, join together in order to
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MAD is a unique social business focused on connecting high need community focused nonprofit organizations with those who want to help. Established in 2013, we started off as a small nonprofit (water and toilets) ourselves and have since grown into an award winning social business that has impacted over 10,000 lives. We partner local nonprofits around the world
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Trashy Bags is a social enterprise based in Accra, Ghana that makes recycled eco-friendly bags and gifts from plastic trash. We employ over forty local people to collect, clean and stitch plastic trash in the form of sachets that have been previously used to contain drinking water and other drinks, into fashionable and useful bags
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