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Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation calls upon Lex Mundi's unique global network of 160 top tier business law firms to provide legal assistance to 'social entrepreneurs' on a pro bono basis. By providing social entrepreneurs with access to critically needed legal assistance, the Foundation joins the...
Grameen Danone Foods form a social entrepreneurship
Grameen Danone launched a social business enterprise in Bangladesh, in partnership with the Grameen Foundation and GAIN – an NGO dedicated to fighting malnutrition around the world. Designed to provide children with many of the key nutrients typically missing from their diet at a very low price,...
Barka Foundation for Mutual Help (Fundacja Barka)
Barka Foundation is a non-governmental organisation based in Poland. Barka supports the social development of excluded groups and builds conditions to enable the people within such groups to rebuild their lives. Barka has created Schools of Social Animation, self-help programmes, which encourage...
Nara Training Centre
Nara Training Centre offers business training services to empower the under privileged and foster economic development in Namibia. Training services include an introduction to small business and entrepreneurship, marketing, basic finance administration, business plan development and presentation...
Universal Giving
UniversalGiving is a social entrepreneurship non-profit dedicated to making giving and volunteering a natural part of everyday life. It's web-based service connects donors and volunteers with exceptional organisations. Service is free to individuals and NGOs - 100% of all donations given via site...
Role of business in development
Role of business in development, an article featured in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Report 2005, mentions that a series of fortuitous politics and events has placed an unprecedented focus on the fight against global poverty and the progress being made towards achieving the UN...
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, a report to the UN Secretary-General, addresses how the potential of the private sector and entrepreneurship can be unleashed in developing countries, and how the existing private sector can be engaged in meeting this challenge. The...
Stimulating Youth Entrepreneurship - Barriers and incentives to enterprise start-ups by young people
The world’s population is growing at a time when traditional, stable labour markets are shrinking. More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 24 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. The ILO estimates that 47 per cent of all unemployed...
Trade, Aid or Traid? Getting it right with the private sector - May, 2008
We are regularly being asked to broaden Global Hand's services. While retaining our traditional 'matching' activity, many have enquired if Global Hand can support the wider engagement between for-profit and non-profit entities in today's landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and...
Research Academy for Rural Enrichment(RARE)
Research Academy for Rural Enrichment(RARE)'s aim is the socio-economic empowerment of the people within rural areas with the objective to enrich the quality of the rural citizen through research, action, reorganisation and reorientation of their social system. RARE focuses upon women&child...