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What lies ahead for the Social Economy in Northern Ireland in 2012? | businessfirstonline
asks Jonathan McAlpin, Director of Operations, Ulster Community Investment Trust (UCIT) The global economic crisis is hitting Northern Ireland with growing unemployment, cuts to wages and pensions, increasing energy prices and stress in many of the business sectors across the region. However, this is a time of opportunity for the social economy. The social economy flourishes where there is market failure, bringing employment to those most marginalised in society and creating solutions to some of our most pressing social problems. Ultimately, the social economy is founded on a passion to create positive social change. The big question is how can this be achieved?It was a dusky evening of November, 2010 when I met Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in his Grameen tower office. The date and time were fixed before I left Guwahati (a northeast Indian city) for Dhaka and it was my fourth meeting with the revolutionary banker to the poor. So our interaction started with no such preface and we went into the content straight. It was Ramadan (Ramjan) month and Prof Yunus was fasting. He offered me a cup of tea and some biscuits. I carried a traditional Assamese towel (Gamocha), which is recognized as the highest honour and love from an Assamese, for him.
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On December 13, 2011, two students of Entrepreneurship at SolBridge International School of Business, JuSeung Yi (Daniel) and MinJae Kim (MJ), visited the world renowned Yunus Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Yunus Centre, ( http://www.muhammadyunus.org/ and also on Facebook: http://www.muhammadyunus.org/ ) is an organization that is dedicated to promoting and spreading the philosophy of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus is a Bangladesh economist and founder of the Grameen Bank that provides micro-credit and invented the concept of micro-credit and social business. One of the unique aspects of the business model for the Grameen Bank is it is owned by the poor people of Bangladesh, with the majority of the ownership being held by women.
Visit to the Yunus Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh by two SolBridge students
By Laurence Saquer, reblogged from Danone.Communities: On Monday, one of the biggest information website in India has published an article about Naandi Community Water Services. Why is it important?...
Naandi Community Water Services
In the developed world, brewing giant SABMiller , whose global brands include Miller, Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell, competes with the even bigger brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev , which owns Budweiser, Beck's, Stella Artois and Michelob. They're the Pepsi and Coke of beer, which, by the way, is the world's third most popular drink , after water and tea. But in Africa, SABMiller's biggest competitor is the guy (or gal) who makes beer at home.
How SABMiller is Making Green Beer at the Bottom of the Pyramid | GreenBiz.com
‘Partnering for sustainability’ to achieve global food security | Farming First
In October, the U.N Committee on World Food Security (CFS) opened its new session in Rome. CFS serves as a forum in the United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies concerning world food security, including food production and physical and economic access to food. To coincide with CFS, Farming First organised a side-event on “Partnering for Sustainability”, in partnership with the International Agri Food Network . Guest speakers at the event gave presentations on public-private and private-private partnerships and the important role they play in building a more sustainable and stable food system. Franklin Moore, USAID began the event with his opening remarks before Thomas Lyall, from Dow AgroSciences spoke about how sustainable beef production in Brazil is being achieved through multi-stakeholder collaboration.Danone Communities a été créé en novembre 2005 par Franck Riboud, Président Directeur Général de Danone, et Muhammad Yunus, initiateur du microcrédit et Prix Nobel de la Paix en 2006. Cette création est le fruit de deux partenariats celui du groupe Danone et du Crédit Agricole S.A . La mission de Danone communities est de financer et d’ impulser des projets sociaux pour combattre la pauvreté et la malnutrition dans les pays en voie de développement. Danone communities est comme une SICAV mais à vocation solidaire, les particuliers ou institutions peuvent investir afin de soutenir un projet. Pour ce faire, Danone Communities a décidé d’utiliser la communication digitale du Web et des réseaux sociaux afin de sensibiliser un maximum de personnes au projet. Un site internet est au cœur de la mission : danonecommunities.com et permet d’informer les personnes sur les différentes actions de l’organisation.
Danone communities engagements relationnelles | Web's Success Stories
Le réseau au coeur de danone communities - Benoît Jullien
Revue des marques : numéro 75 - juillet 2011 Dès son origine, danone.communities a adopté les codes de la communication digitale. Mais c'est le fond de son action qui a motivé un choix qui ne prétend pas remplacer les échanges réels entre de "vraies" personnes. Par Benoît Jullien Novembre 2005 : Franck Riboud, patron de Danone, rencontre Muhammad Yunus, inspirateur du microcrédit.
Social business youngsters – The BookWorm Revolution | Get Online Votes
Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.The Blog » Paris HotSpot – GangSta Blabla / Opportunity Playlist for #socent projects / Opportunités pour Padawan #socent
Yoho Pirates ! Here are some anouncements gathered by the Gang in Paris that could #boost your projects. The competition in french have a description in French. Salut les pirates !
Added Value – Source » Danone’s Recipe for Sustainable Innovation
Sustainable Innovation Director, Leslie Pascaud, writes for GreenBiz.com : Despite economic turbulence, political abdication and consumer apathy, the corporate sustainable agenda is still alive & kicking. According to a recent McKinsey survey on “The Business of Sustainability”: “More companies are managing sustainability to improve processes, pursue growth, and add value to their companies rather than focusing on reputation alone.” Clearly, some companies are doing a better job than others.Excès de pessimisme. Pessimisme qui nourrit notre presse quotidienne et la fait vivre. La crise ! La crise…Il me semble que, depuis que je sais lire, les gros titres (les gros mots ?) ne me parlent que de crise.
Ces idées qui changent le monde | Un Autre Regard
Compte-rendu du 2e Rendez-vous des entrepreneurs sociaux
J'ai eu l'occasion de participer à cette deuxième édition du Rendez-vous des entrepreneurs sociaux organisé par l' INM . Il y aurait eu un peu plus de 160 personnes lors de cette journée de conférence. La formule était plus traditionnelle avec un seul lieu pour toute la journée, soit la salle de l'Olympia.On Thursday April 28, 2011, you were 2000 at the Carrousel du Louvre, to follow the good progress of social business and danone.communities. Online, you were almost 1 300 to attend and comment the GCM from 20 different countries. We are very pleased to have attracted so much attention and as positive as inspirational messages. To go further in the discussion, here is a list of sources with which you can deepen the projects and the thematic around them.