Unitus
Unitus is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing innovative, market-based solutions to global poverty.
We work to create pathways out of poverty by increasing access to life-changing microfinance services—small [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 30th 2008 |
Tags: microfinance institutions
Posted in MFI, Microcredit, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, nonprofit
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to support the business license to [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 30th 2008 |
Tags: Add new tag, global issues, Microfinance, Sustainable Development
Posted in Microfinance, Sustainable Development, global issues
Global Agents for Change is a fellow traveler with their GFAC fund The group’s vision is to create the world’s largest youth built, youth led microcredit fund and connecting [...] Continue Reading…
DCatzel, April 28th 2008 |
Tags: Biking for social change, business development tools, GFAC, GFAC Fund, microcredit awareness, youth microcredit, youth-led organization
Posted in Changing the World, Kids in America, Microcredit, Microfinance, anti-poverty strategy, eradicating poverty, lasting social change, nonprofit, social entrepreneurs, young people, young social entrepreneurs, youth-focused organizations, youth-led organization
As a parent, I am concerned that our children are growing up in an era of profound social, technological, political and economic change, with shifts in power and influence [...] Continue Reading…
DCatzel, April 27th 2008 |
Tags: American Youth, Changing the World, Kids in America, Microfinance, MicroLoans, US Teens
Posted in Changing the World, Kids in America, US Teens, Uncategorized
“Microcredit is about giving hope. When you’re talking about making loans to women whose income is less than $1 a day, you can easily make the leap to see [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: FINCA, FINCA International Ambassador of Hope, Microcredit, Natalie Portman
Posted in Uncategorized
Changemakers
Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social innovation. It provides solutions and resources needed to help everyone [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: Ashoka, collaborative competitions, social change, successful social innovation
Posted in Ashoka, collaborative competitions, social change, successful social innovation
Social Fusion
Social Fusion is an incubator for entrepreneurs to grow for-profit and nonprofit businesses that produce sustainable social and environmental impact.
Social Fusion’s strength lies in focusing on three pillars [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: for-profit, incubator for entrepreneurs, nonprofit, Social Fusion, sustainable philanthropy
Posted in for-profit, incubator for entrepreneurs, nonprofit, social entrepreneurs, social marketing, sustainable philanthropy
Center for Social Innovation
As an institution, the Stanford Graduate School of Business believes that business schools have a responsibility to teach students to be innovative, principled, and insightful leaders [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: Center for Social Innovation, environmental value, leadership education, social value, Stanford
Posted in Center for Social Innovation, Stanford, environmental value, leadership education, social value
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs is a for-profit consulting company founded in 1999 by Jerr Boschee, who served for the previous eight years as President [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: for-profit, Jerr Boschee, social entrepreneurs
Posted in for-profit, social entrepreneurs
Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, we have elected [...] Continue Reading…
admin, April 23rd 2008 |
Tags: Ashoka, leading social entrepreneurs, powerful changemakers
Posted in Ashoka, leading social entrepreneurs, social benefit sector, social entrepreneurs