Bambike is a socio-ecological enterprise based in the Philippines that hand-makes bamboo bicycles with fair-trade labor and sustainable building practices. Our bamboo bike builders (aka Bambuilders) come from Gawad Kalinga, a Philippine based community development organization for the poor, working to bring an end to poverty. We have programs that include scholarships, sponsoring a preschool
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Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and
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BRAC Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) aims at achieving socio-political empowerment of the rural poor, particularly women, by enabling them to build, secure and use socio-political assets to improve their wellbeing, exercise their rights, take advantage of new opportunities and play a more active role in public life. We are directly reaching nearly one million rural
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Decades after South Korea’s stark economic past, its startups are developing solar, wind and hydro-powered products for developing world markets. For South Korean millennials born into bright lights, cheap energy and bustling modernisation, the country’s dimly lit, war torn past is a thing of the history books. This made Akas Kim’s trip to rural India, seeing
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For more than a decade, BroadReach Healthcare has partnered with governments, multinational health organisations, donors and life science companies to improve the health and wellbeing of underserved populations. Through our work with clients—spanning strategic planning and policy design to “last mile” operational support—it has become clear: leaders are constrained by fragmented and incomplete data and often
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Jim Cogan OBE founded it in 2004. Alive and Kicking is an African social enterprise that manufactures sports balls to provide balls for children, create jobs for adults and promote health education through sport. Our balls are hand-stitched in Kenya, Zambia and Ghana. Made from African leather, they are built to last in tough terrain.
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CharityVillage has become the Canadian nonprofit sector’s largest and most popular online resource for recruiting, news and how-to information. Merging the best of web design and social media, the new CharityVillage is a unique online community for the 21st century. It’s based on relationship-building, sharing, and collaboration – characteristics that underpin the nonprofit sector. Whether
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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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In The Business of Good, serial and social entrepreneur Jason Haber intertwines case studies and anecdotes that show how social entrepreneurship is creating jobs, growing the economy, and ultimately changing the world. In this edited excerpt, Haber profiles one social entrepreneur who’s doing good and making money. Every eight seconds, one person dies from illnesses borne
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