Entries For: 2006
- November (7)
- December (6)
- January (3)
- February (5)
- March (8)
- April (4)
- May (11)
- June (7)
- July (8)
- August (7)
- September (6)
- October (13)
2006-12-24
Intelligent Giving
A new UK-based charity transparency rating website aimed at the general public (ie written in plain English) is available here:
• 1300 charities listed and categorised
• 580 charities profiled and rated on transparency
• 110 editorial pages guiding people how to give to charity
• Humour used throughout, to make digestible
• 1300 charities listed and categorised
• 580 charities profiled and rated on transparency
• 110 editorial pages guiding people how to give to charity
• Humour used throughout, to make digestible
2006-12-22
The Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge
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The John S. and James Knight Foundation has just announed a reward challenge, seeking new ideas, pilot projects, commercial products, and leadership initiatives that will improve the flow of information and news in the public interest. The Foundation will be granting individuals and organizations a total of $5 million for their innovative ideas about the future of news and information dissemination.
Here is the overview of the project:
"In a democracy that is organized by geography, the fate of every village, town, suburb and metropolis depends on citizens being able to get the news they need to run their lives and their governments. The Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge hopes to recognize transformative ideas, pilot projects, leadership initiatives and investment opportunities that will help improve the flow of journalism, information and news in the public interest."
The winning ideas will be announced in Spring 2007.
The deadline to submit a letter of inquiry was recently extended to December 31, 2006.
Here is the overview of the project:
"In a democracy that is organized by geography, the fate of every village, town, suburb and metropolis depends on citizens being able to get the news they need to run their lives and their governments. The Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge hopes to recognize transformative ideas, pilot projects, leadership initiatives and investment opportunities that will help improve the flow of journalism, information and news in the public interest."
The winning ideas will be announced in Spring 2007.
The deadline to submit a letter of inquiry was recently extended to December 31, 2006.
2006-12-19
Help Unitus fight global poverty!
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Unitus is a non-profit organization based in Redmond, WA with a focus on microfinance (tiny but life-changing loans for those in poverty who may not have any other way of building a business or accessing important capital to help themselves and their family).
Its mission is to alleviate global poverty by increasing access to microfinance, and it does this by investing in and consulting with microfinance institutions (MFIs = small banks and other organizations that provide microloans to the working poor); helping them to increase their capacity and reach. In short, Unitus is an organization that believes microfinance is a powerful tool for empowering the poor, and its goal is to ensure millions of people have access to much-needed loans and financial services. Unitus already helps serve over 1 million of the world’s working poor and it has very ambitious goals to do even more in 2007.
As you think about your plans for the holiday season, you may want to consider a donation. You can also help Unitus when you buy your holiday gifts at Amazon.com!
Its mission is to alleviate global poverty by increasing access to microfinance, and it does this by investing in and consulting with microfinance institutions (MFIs = small banks and other organizations that provide microloans to the working poor); helping them to increase their capacity and reach. In short, Unitus is an organization that believes microfinance is a powerful tool for empowering the poor, and its goal is to ensure millions of people have access to much-needed loans and financial services. Unitus already helps serve over 1 million of the world’s working poor and it has very ambitious goals to do even more in 2007.
As you think about your plans for the holiday season, you may want to consider a donation. You can also help Unitus when you buy your holiday gifts at Amazon.com!
2006-12-12
OneWorld’s “Person of 2006”
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Who should be OneWorld’s “Person of 2006”?
Maybe it’s someone who is working at the grassroots to bring change to their community or their country. Maybe someone lobbying to improve governments’ policies towards marginalized people. Or someone who raising issues that others are neglecting.
It could be an NGO worker or a journalist, activist, or elected official. Someone you know, or someone we all know. It could even be a corporation, an organization, or a whole village.
Post your nominations to the OneWorld blog by Monday, December 18— and be sure to tell us why!
The top ten finalists will be announced in early January.
Maybe it’s someone who is working at the grassroots to bring change to their community or their country. Maybe someone lobbying to improve governments’ policies towards marginalized people. Or someone who raising issues that others are neglecting.
It could be an NGO worker or a journalist, activist, or elected official. Someone you know, or someone we all know. It could even be a corporation, an organization, or a whole village.
Post your nominations to the OneWorld blog by Monday, December 18— and be sure to tell us why!
The top ten finalists will be announced in early January.
2006-12-05
Job opportunities: Games for Change
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Games for Change is expanding its work with Parsons the New School for Design and the MacArthur Foundation, in addition to grants received over the past six months from Surdna, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Games for Change is recruiting for three positions, all based in New York:
• Executive Director
Seeking a social change innovator and experienced program manager to lead a team of five people as the organization expands to a solid yet flexible institution at the forefront of a new form of media in the public interest.
• Online Social Network Manager-Designer
Oversee the development and operation of an innovative online Knowledge Network leveraging Web2.0 to build a new practitioner/academic field.
• National Event Planner (as staff or consultant)
Oversee planning for all events over an intense eight-month period, including Games for Change's annual Festival, with the opportunity to help grow new events for future years.
Games for Change is recruiting for three positions, all based in New York:
• Executive Director
Seeking a social change innovator and experienced program manager to lead a team of five people as the organization expands to a solid yet flexible institution at the forefront of a new form of media in the public interest.
• Online Social Network Manager-Designer
Oversee the development and operation of an innovative online Knowledge Network leveraging Web2.0 to build a new practitioner/academic field.
• National Event Planner (as staff or consultant)
Oversee planning for all events over an intense eight-month period, including Games for Change's annual Festival, with the opportunity to help grow new events for future years.
Social Entrepreneurship Competition
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The 2007 National Idea-to-Product (I2P) Competition for EPICS and Social Entrepreneurship is currently seeking three social entrepreneurship projects to be showcased at their March 24, 2007 Competition. This is the second year for the I2P “on the road” competition which will be hosted by Princeton University.
An Idea-to-Product competition is a product feasibility competition, not a business plan competition. The showcase teams will be allotted ten minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for questions and answers. The team must have a product, prototype or well defined concept to be eligible. In the event a product is too large to transport to Princeton N.J., a poster and/or video presentation may be substituted for a live product demo.
To help support further success of the project, each showcase team will receive a participation award of $1,000.
Provide information on your program, mission and product by December 31, 2006. The I2P Team will review the information and choose 3 projects.
An Idea-to-Product competition is a product feasibility competition, not a business plan competition. The showcase teams will be allotted ten minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for questions and answers. The team must have a product, prototype or well defined concept to be eligible. In the event a product is too large to transport to Princeton N.J., a poster and/or video presentation may be substituted for a live product demo.
To help support further success of the project, each showcase team will receive a participation award of $1,000.
Provide information on your program, mission and product by December 31, 2006. The I2P Team will review the information and choose 3 projects.
2006-11-29
The Climate of Capital Change
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Co-hosted by Social Fusion, Tendris and the following groups at Stanford University: BASES, FUSION, GSB Social Venture Club, Center for Social Innovation & the Program on Urban Studies
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 12:00PM – 1:30PM
At Stanford University, Graduate School of Business – Room S-180
Leadership and the future of global business and investment
What do the leaders behind a multi-billion $ private equity fund, the recipient of the globe’s most prestigious social entrepreneurial leadership award, and a dot.com millionaire-turned-carbon cowbo have in common? They are on the leading edge of unleashing the positive power of business and capital to build a better world.
During a unique event at Stanford University on Tuesday, December 5th, they will share their personal stories, and challenge each other, and all of us, to create a future better than we had imagined possible.
Join us for an engaged ‘CrossFire’ style session, with Paul Fletcher, Sr. MD of Actis, a leading private equity fund investing over 3.4billion under management in the world’s poorest countries; Nic Frances, a Schwab Foundation recognized Social Entrepreneur and Founder & Chairman of Easy Being Green, a global leader in individual and family carbon aggregation; Dan Whaley, Founder & CEO of Climos, a Silicon Valley based company that aims to leverage the power of the ocean through a revolutionary new technique to address global warming. We will also be joined by Divesh Makan, VP, Goldman Sachs; Robert Rubenstein, Founder & CEO of the Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference; and Toni E. Symonds, Senior Policy Advisor to the California State Legislature, and a former representative to the CalPERS and CalSTERS Board, with a combined estimated asset value of more than $300 billion.
Click here to register.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 12:00PM – 1:30PM
At Stanford University, Graduate School of Business – Room S-180
Leadership and the future of global business and investment
What do the leaders behind a multi-billion $ private equity fund, the recipient of the globe’s most prestigious social entrepreneurial leadership award, and a dot.com millionaire-turned-carbon cowbo have in common? They are on the leading edge of unleashing the positive power of business and capital to build a better world.
During a unique event at Stanford University on Tuesday, December 5th, they will share their personal stories, and challenge each other, and all of us, to create a future better than we had imagined possible.
Join us for an engaged ‘CrossFire’ style session, with Paul Fletcher, Sr. MD of Actis, a leading private equity fund investing over 3.4billion under management in the world’s poorest countries; Nic Frances, a Schwab Foundation recognized Social Entrepreneur and Founder & Chairman of Easy Being Green, a global leader in individual and family carbon aggregation; Dan Whaley, Founder & CEO of Climos, a Silicon Valley based company that aims to leverage the power of the ocean through a revolutionary new technique to address global warming. We will also be joined by Divesh Makan, VP, Goldman Sachs; Robert Rubenstein, Founder & CEO of the Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference; and Toni E. Symonds, Senior Policy Advisor to the California State Legislature, and a former representative to the CalPERS and CalSTERS Board, with a combined estimated asset value of more than $300 billion.
Click here to register.
2006-11-28
2007 Global Social Venture Competition
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The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is seeking promising social
entrepreneurs to enter its 2007 Competition.
You are encouraged to apply if you are an entrepreneur (or budding entrepreneur) with a financially sustainable venture that addresses a social or environmental problem.
Winning plans in the past have ranged from global health to microfinance, from cleantech to education, from fair trade to community development, from business concepts to operating companies, and have included for-profit and non-profit models.
Executive Summaries are due January 17, 2007
Full Business Plans are due March 2007
GSVC is the largest and oldest student-led business plan competition providing mentoring, exposure, and prizes for social ventures from around the world. GSVC's mission is to catalyze the creation of social ventures, educate future leaders, and build awareness for social
enterprises. The competition supports the creation of real businesses that bring about positive social change.
GSVC is organized by the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in partnership with the Columbia Business School, London Business School, Indian School of Business, Yale School of Management, International University in Geneva, and a consortium of business schools in Korea.
Every year, teams compete for more than $45,000 in cash and travel prizes, while gaining valuable feedback on their ventures.
entrepreneurs to enter its 2007 Competition.
You are encouraged to apply if you are an entrepreneur (or budding entrepreneur) with a financially sustainable venture that addresses a social or environmental problem.
Winning plans in the past have ranged from global health to microfinance, from cleantech to education, from fair trade to community development, from business concepts to operating companies, and have included for-profit and non-profit models.
Executive Summaries are due January 17, 2007
Full Business Plans are due March 2007
GSVC is the largest and oldest student-led business plan competition providing mentoring, exposure, and prizes for social ventures from around the world. GSVC's mission is to catalyze the creation of social ventures, educate future leaders, and build awareness for social
enterprises. The competition supports the creation of real businesses that bring about positive social change.
GSVC is organized by the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in partnership with the Columbia Business School, London Business School, Indian School of Business, Yale School of Management, International University in Geneva, and a consortium of business schools in Korea.
Every year, teams compete for more than $45,000 in cash and travel prizes, while gaining valuable feedback on their ventures.
2006-11-21
GSVC Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship
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The 2006 GSVC Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, hosted by London Business School, will take place on December 2nd, 2006. The symposium is part of the Global Social Venture Competition, an international social business plan competition.
The theme of the symposium this year is 'Social Enterprises: Evolution and Revolution'. The symposium will explore the different approaches to social entrepreneurship: both 'evolutionary' and 'revolutionary'. The discussion will focus on the implications that these two different approaches have on social enterprise business models, viability and impact.
The symposium offers a great opportunity to network and hear from leading social entrepreneurs, social investors and leading subject-matter experts on creating sustainable businesses with social value. There will be two panel sessions on 'Investing in Social Enterprises' and 'Developing your Social Enterprise' and there will also be a session on calculating 'Social Return on Investment'.
Sign up is now open at: http://forms.london.edu/form.asp?id=5965
For further information, please feel free to contact Suruchi at ssaxena.mba2008@london.edu
The theme of the symposium this year is 'Social Enterprises: Evolution and Revolution'. The symposium will explore the different approaches to social entrepreneurship: both 'evolutionary' and 'revolutionary'. The discussion will focus on the implications that these two different approaches have on social enterprise business models, viability and impact.
The symposium offers a great opportunity to network and hear from leading social entrepreneurs, social investors and leading subject-matter experts on creating sustainable businesses with social value. There will be two panel sessions on 'Investing in Social Enterprises' and 'Developing your Social Enterprise' and there will also be a session on calculating 'Social Return on Investment'.
Sign up is now open at: http://forms.london.edu/form.asp?id=5965
For further information, please feel free to contact Suruchi at ssaxena.mba2008@london.edu
2006-11-17
OneWorld.Net Gift Guide
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Our friend at OneWorld writes:
Your neighbor Tim doesn’t need another fruit cake. Your co-worker Michelle doesn’t need another Starbucks card and Little Scotty surely doesn’t need another video game…
So why not donate a water buffalo in Tim’s name to a family in India, surprise Michelle with a bag of fair-trade coffee, and give Little Scotty a teddy bear from Sri Lanka?
With OneWorld’s Gift Guide the possibilities are endless!
You can find hundreds of gift ideas from nonprofits across the nation.
Save time AND make a difference!
Your neighbor Tim doesn’t need another fruit cake. Your co-worker Michelle doesn’t need another Starbucks card and Little Scotty surely doesn’t need another video game…
So why not donate a water buffalo in Tim’s name to a family in India, surprise Michelle with a bag of fair-trade coffee, and give Little Scotty a teddy bear from Sri Lanka?
With OneWorld’s Gift Guide the possibilities are endless!
You can find hundreds of gift ideas from nonprofits across the nation.
Save time AND make a difference!
2006-11-08
NetAid Global Action Award
NetAid Global Action Award
Have you led a poverty-fighting project? Has it had an impact on people in developing countries? Or raised awareness about global poverty in your own community?
Apply today for a NetAid Global Action Award and you could win US $5000 for college or a charitable cause of your choice.
More about the jury here.
Deadline: November 30, 2006
NetAid Global Action Award
Have you led a poverty-fighting project? Has it had an impact on people in developing countries? Or raised awareness about global poverty in your own community?
Apply today for a NetAid Global Action Award and you could win US $5000 for college or a charitable cause of your choice.
More about the jury here.
Deadline: November 30, 2006
Apply today for a NetAid Global Action Award and you could win US $5000 for college or a charitable cause of your choice.
More about the jury here.
Deadline: November 30, 2006
2006-11-07
The Berkeley Digital Media Conference
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
>play will bring together creative professionals, industry leaders, and students to discuss the emergence and implications of the digital lifestyle. Participants will be exposed to new ideas and have the opportunity to connect with key thinkers in digital media.
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
>play will bring together creative professionals, industry leaders, and students to discuss the emergence and implications of the digital lifestyle. Participants will be exposed to new ideas and have the opportunity to connect with key thinkers in digital media.
2006-10-31
Attracting Resources
Standing Out in a Crowded Field
Attracting Resources to Meet the Ambitions of Today’s Social Entrepreneurs
Boston Harbor Hotel, The North Atlantic Room
November 16, 2006 - 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Bob Turner of the Boston Globe will moderate a discussion among local and national investors and successful entrepreneurs sharing their insights and strategies for identifying and promoting social investment opportunities in the 21st Century.
This is the seventh in the SM& Presents series of discussions among experts addressing the topical issues in the news today as well as some of the most challenging aspects of branding for emerging businesses, established companies and mission-focused organizations.
RSVP: rsvp@solomonmccown.com or 617-933-5279
Attracting Resources to Meet the Ambitions of Today’s Social Entrepreneurs
Boston Harbor Hotel, The North Atlantic Room
November 16, 2006 - 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Bob Turner of the Boston Globe will moderate a discussion among local and national investors and successful entrepreneurs sharing their insights and strategies for identifying and promoting social investment opportunities in the 21st Century.
- Bob Turner, Deputy Managing Editor/Editorial Page, The Boston Globe
- Milton Little, CEO, United Way of Massachusetts Bay
- Charles Roussel, Director, Disadvantaged Children & Youth Program, Atlantic Philanthropies
- Helene Solomon, CEO, Solomon McCown & Company
- Andrew Wolk, President & Founder, Root Cause Institute & MIT Senior Lecturer, Social Entrepreneurship
This is the seventh in the SM& Presents series of discussions among experts addressing the topical issues in the news today as well as some of the most challenging aspects of branding for emerging businesses, established companies and mission-focused organizations.
RSVP: rsvp@solomonmccown.com or 617-933-5279
2006-10-30
Investors' Circle
The Investors' Circle Fall Conference & Venture Fair
November 5-7, 2006
The Boston Harbor Hotel
Boston, MA
Last Chance: Advance registration closes this Wednesday, November 1st
Click here to register now.
November 5-7, 2006
The Boston Harbor Hotel
Boston, MA
Last Chance: Advance registration closes this Wednesday, November 1st
Click here to register now.
2006-10-27
Kiva on U.S. TV - October 31
FRONTLINE/World and Public Radio International reporter Clark Boyd traveled to Uganda to see firsthand how San Francisco-based Kiva was revolutionizing the world of micro-credit.
The concept of Kiva is simple. With just a credit card, a lender in the U.S. can make a loan as small as $25 to a small business in the developing world. What’s different about Kiva is that – through the web – a more direct connection is forged between lender and borrower.
Matt and Jessica Flannery, the young social entrepreneurs who started Kiva, told FRONTLINE/World that so far individuals have given more than $400,000 and the repayment rate was 100%. And what started in one village in Uganda has spread to eleven other countries in just over a year.
Check the schedule here. And read Matt's blog on Social Edge, the Kiva Chronicles.
The concept of Kiva is simple. With just a credit card, a lender in the U.S. can make a loan as small as $25 to a small business in the developing world. What’s different about Kiva is that – through the web – a more direct connection is forged between lender and borrower.
Matt and Jessica Flannery, the young social entrepreneurs who started Kiva, told FRONTLINE/World that so far individuals have given more than $400,000 and the repayment rate was 100%. And what started in one village in Uganda has spread to eleven other countries in just over a year.
Check the schedule here. And read Matt's blog on Social Edge, the Kiva Chronicles.
Elie Wiesel and Reverend Tutu
Elie Wiesel and Reverend Tutu among panel to select outstanding young poverty-fighters
NetAid recently announced the prestigious judging panel for the 2006-2007 NetAid Global Action Awards. Ten globally minded individuals will team up to select four high school students in the U.S. who have taken exemplary actions to fight global poverty.
The judges for the 2006-2007 NetAid Global Action Awards are:
• Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
• William Easterly, Professor of Economics (Joint with Africa House), New York University
• Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard University
• Vanita Gupta, Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union
• James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor, Foreign Affairs
• Claire Kevitt, Youth President, Youth for Human Rights International
• Kathleen Newland, Director and Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
• Reverend Mpho Tutu, The Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage
• Elie Wiesel, Noble Peace Laureate; Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University
• Ethan Zohn, Co-Founder, Grassroot Soccer; Director, KickAIDS
The judges share a commitment to raising awareness about global poverty and hail from a range of backgrounds including religion, the media, and academia. Together, they will choose four teen honorees selected from hundreds of applicants from across the U.S. Selection criteria include innovation, leadership, and impact of projects in areas such as preventing HIV/AIDS, alleviating hunger, and increasing access to education.
In its third year, the Global Action Awards honor high school students in the U.S. who have organized and led a project that has had a positive impact on people living in poverty or raised awareness in their own communities about global poverty. The Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of these young leaders and are meant to inspire other students to follow in their footsteps. Honorees receive a $5,000 award which recipients have the choice of using to further their own education or contributing to the poverty-fighting project of their choice.
NetAid recently announced the prestigious judging panel for the 2006-2007 NetAid Global Action Awards. Ten globally minded individuals will team up to select four high school students in the U.S. who have taken exemplary actions to fight global poverty.
The judges for the 2006-2007 NetAid Global Action Awards are:
• Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
• William Easterly, Professor of Economics (Joint with Africa House), New York University
• Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard University
• Vanita Gupta, Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union
• James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor, Foreign Affairs
• Claire Kevitt, Youth President, Youth for Human Rights International
• Kathleen Newland, Director and Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
• Reverend Mpho Tutu, The Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage
• Elie Wiesel, Noble Peace Laureate; Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University
• Ethan Zohn, Co-Founder, Grassroot Soccer; Director, KickAIDS
The judges share a commitment to raising awareness about global poverty and hail from a range of backgrounds including religion, the media, and academia. Together, they will choose four teen honorees selected from hundreds of applicants from across the U.S. Selection criteria include innovation, leadership, and impact of projects in areas such as preventing HIV/AIDS, alleviating hunger, and increasing access to education.
In its third year, the Global Action Awards honor high school students in the U.S. who have organized and led a project that has had a positive impact on people living in poverty or raised awareness in their own communities about global poverty. The Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of these young leaders and are meant to inspire other students to follow in their footsteps. Honorees receive a $5,000 award which recipients have the choice of using to further their own education or contributing to the poverty-fighting project of their choice.
2006-10-24
Five $100,000 Prizes
Inventing New Ways to Solve Societal Challenges
Civic Ventures announces the opening of nominations for the 2007 Purpose Prize, a major initiative that invests in Americans over 60 who are leading a new age of social innovation.
The Purpose Prize provides five awards of $100,000 and ten awards of $10,000 to people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges. It’s for those with the passion and creativity to discover new opportunities, the experience to come up with practical solutions, and the determination to make lasting change.
Winners in 2006 addressed problems such as intolerance, racial disparities in preventable deaths, job opportunities for the disabled, housing needs of the elderly poor, and the disrupted lives of children with a parent in jail.
Who will take the Prize in 2007?
Make your nomination now. Nominations will close on February 1.
Civic Ventures announces the opening of nominations for the 2007 Purpose Prize, a major initiative that invests in Americans over 60 who are leading a new age of social innovation.
The Purpose Prize provides five awards of $100,000 and ten awards of $10,000 to people over 60 who are taking on society’s biggest challenges. It’s for those with the passion and creativity to discover new opportunities, the experience to come up with practical solutions, and the determination to make lasting change.
Winners in 2006 addressed problems such as intolerance, racial disparities in preventable deaths, job opportunities for the disabled, housing needs of the elderly poor, and the disrupted lives of children with a parent in jail.
Who will take the Prize in 2007?
Make your nomination now. Nominations will close on February 1.
2006-10-22
Make Poverty Reduction your Business!
The Business in Development (BiD) Challenge aims to boost Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and fight poverty in developing Countries. SME development not only creates jobs and income, it is a ‘drive’ for innovation, income distribution, knowledge and expertise.
The cultivation of tropical mushrooms on agricultural waste in Surinam, trendy bags made out of plastic waste in India, candy that is enriched with vitamins in South East Asia: these are only three examples of the 800 plans which participated in the BiD Challenge 2005. This first Challenge is proof that all over the world people have innovative and profitable ideas which support the fight against poverty.
The Second edition of the BiD Challenge challenges anyone anywhere to write a business plan for a SME in a developing country. The best plans win up to 25.000 Euro start-up capital. Individuals and employees of Dutch companies, banks and NGO’s, including amongst others the Rabobank, ING, TNT, KPMG, ICCO, Plan Nederland and WNF, can put their experiences and expertise in service of the submitted plans from al over the world as screeners or coaches.
If you want to "Make Poverty Reduction your Business" too, you should submit your business plan online before March 20th 2006.
The cultivation of tropical mushrooms on agricultural waste in Surinam, trendy bags made out of plastic waste in India, candy that is enriched with vitamins in South East Asia: these are only three examples of the 800 plans which participated in the BiD Challenge 2005. This first Challenge is proof that all over the world people have innovative and profitable ideas which support the fight against poverty.
The Second edition of the BiD Challenge challenges anyone anywhere to write a business plan for a SME in a developing country. The best plans win up to 25.000 Euro start-up capital. Individuals and employees of Dutch companies, banks and NGO’s, including amongst others the Rabobank, ING, TNT, KPMG, ICCO, Plan Nederland and WNF, can put their experiences and expertise in service of the submitted plans from al over the world as screeners or coaches.
If you want to "Make Poverty Reduction your Business" too, you should submit your business plan online before March 20th 2006.
2006-10-17
Visionaries Wanted
Do you have an incredible idea that could change your community, country, or world?
If so, apply for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You could receive up to $100,000 in seed funding and support to launch a new organization that turns your idea into action.
Follow in the footsteps of the founders of Teach For America, City Year, and over 400 other social change leaders, and visit Echoing Green.
If so, apply for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You could receive up to $100,000 in seed funding and support to launch a new organization that turns your idea into action.
Follow in the footsteps of the founders of Teach For America, City Year, and over 400 other social change leaders, and visit Echoing Green.
