Archive for the 'Social Entrepreneurship' Category
Sreelatha Menon The world goes green with the world cup, as players take bottles to the field. This season the football extravaganza was not all about great football, but about a green revolution that has taken the world of sports by storm. Recycled plastic PET bottles collected from landfill sites in Taiwan and Japan have [...]
Making Ecopreneurs Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of ‘ecopreneurs’ – environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability.
Tata Motors is taking giant strides and making history for itself. First the Landrover-Jaguar deal, then the world’s cheapest car and now it is also set to introduce the car that runs on air, compressed air to be specific. More
Vastra Samman We believe that just by re-using our old clothes the problem of clothing for the poor can be solved to a very large extent Cloth for work Cloth is given as a motivation, with dignity, to people working on their own community issues. We turn age old charitable cloth into a resource for [...]
Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (Deadline: Ongoing) The Rufford Small Grants Foundation provides grants of up to £6,000 for small-scale or pilot nature conservation projects in less-developed countries around the world. Projects must have a nature/biodiversity conservation focus and be located outside the first world. The Foundation’s scope of interest includes conservation work focused [...]
Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship We know that it takes more than just early stage risk-capital to get a company off the ground – we enable most of what may be required by entrepreneurs through incubation, training and best practice research. Our activities therefore revolve around forging new ways of helping budding entrepreneurs in [...]
Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series 2010 We would like to kick-off the first of the “Karmayog CSR Dialogue Series“, that is a continuing set of of discussions on Corporate Social Responsibility in India. The discussions will be based on the learnings and results from the Karmayog CSR Study and Ratings of the 500 largest Indian companies, [...]
A blend of Social and Commercial Goals can make inclusive growth possible. Aavishkaar aims to harness the entrepreneurial spirit at the bottom of the pyramid to create inclusive economic development. They seek to empower disadvantaged and rural communities through infusion of commercial activities. Typically entrepreneurs who operate at the lower end of the economic spectrum [...]
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