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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Rob Anderson is leveraging the popularity of the Melbourne food scene to feed people going hungry, writes Ellie Cooper in this week’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise. HealthBreak is a lunch delivery service with a difference. Partnering with chefs and artisan food makers, as well as charity organisations, Rob Anderson wants to provide food lovers with a
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Youth Venture shares Ashoka vision of an Everyone A Changemaker™ world – a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to drive change. Youth Venture’s goals are: To provide opportunities for young people to develop critical life skills of team building, leadership,
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Envirofit was created to unite top-tier clean energy research with consumer driven product design to bring sustainable and scalable market-based solutions to emerging markets. Envirofit was formed in 2003 as a spinoff company out of Colorado State University’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory to develop well-engineered technology solutions to solve global energy and health challenges.
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Young social entrepreneurs from the team ‘Auxilium’ in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) won the 2015 ‘Best Social Enterprise Award’ based on their social enterprise concept. The team started running a canteen in the centre of Skopje, which provides warm meals for homeless individuals 12 hours a day. By receiving donations from local markets
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The society won the top prize for allowing its staff to take up to 31 hours of paid volunteering leave each year. The financial services provider the Yorkshire Building Society was named Business of the Year at last night’s Business Charity Awards, which recognise the outstanding contribution UK companies make to good causes. The building
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Cornwall has been designated a rural social enterprise zone. Unlike business enterprise zones which offer financial incentives to companies, the aim of rural social enterprise is to boost the local economy and care for the environment. Civil Society Minister Nick Hurd said it was about “businesses who wanted to use profit for social good”. Organisations
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The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is at work in over 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their
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NESsT develops sustainable social enterprises that solve critical social problems in emerging market economies. Our portfolio team is constantly seeking innovative social enterprises. We identify our pipeline of prospective portfolio members primarily through our national social enterprise competitions. We do not accept unsolicited proposals or business plans. Labor Inclusion Enterprises targeting groups excluded from the
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