Was founded in 1977 by Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish in order to bring about cultural renewal in Egypt on a sustainable basis. SEKEM’s goals are to “restore and maintain the vitality of the soil and food as well as the biodiversity of nature” through sustainable, organic agriculture and to support social and cultural development in Egypt.
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The Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Awards is an annual list of the top innovators driving global, regional and industry agendas to improve the state of the world. The 2014 list of 30 entrepreneurs includes two Endeavor Entrepreneurs from Mexico – Javier Lozano, co-founder of Clinicas del Azucar, and Patrick Struebi, founder of Fairtrasa. This honor demonstrates the impact of
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The company was co-founded by Gyanesh Pandey, Manoj Sinha, and Ratnesh Yadav, and the Chairman of the Board is Brad Mattson.. It provides power to thousands of rural Indians using proprietary technology that has been developed by the firm that cost-effectively generates electricity using a biomass gasifier that creates fuel from rice husks, a waste
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EASEN is The Home of Social Enterprises. We are member led network that aims to support, promote, develop and represent social enterprises and social entrepreneurs in East Africa. We aspire to achieve an environment where society profits and social enterprises excel at addressing and meeting community needs. We are your first point of contact to
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Claudia Cahalane looks at the role social enterprise is playing in Japan, and how the sector responded to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Social enterprises and civil society in Japan appear to have flourished in the wake of natural disasters. According to Nana Watanabe, founder of the Japanese arm of social entrepreneurship foundation Ashoka, it was The
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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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It was established in 1995 with head office in India. Its founder is Dr. Abraham M. George, a successful business entrepreneur in the United States who returned to India and embarked on a number of humanitarian projects. It has launched various programs to alleviate poverty in India. This include – Shanti Bhavan Boarding School, Agri-Business
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Wendy Kopp founded it in 1989 with a focus to eliminate educational inequality. Its mission was to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation’s most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. The organization aims to accomplish this by recruiting and selecting college graduates
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This week in Oxford the 2016 Skoll World Forum and Marmalade will bring together thousands of people from the public, private, charity and social enterprise sectors to discuss solutions to global social and environmental issues. In just a matter of days the 2016 Skoll awardees will be announced. Hear from one of last year’s winners and the founder of Blue Ventures Alasdair Harris in
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