one young world http://www.oneyoungworld.com/ conducts a growing youth summit-pittsburgh 2012 joburg 2013 after prior yeaars in eurocapitals - its claims a social bsuienss acelerator offering loans- to whom? help us bookmark
20K loan awards Muhammad Yunus Special Session- announcement of loans and grants from One Young World Social Business Fund friday 19 october 2012
1 start up SAUGHT www.saught.com.sg serves cambodia founded by Pamela Yeo of Sinagpore: metals from abandoned land mines in Cambodia and turns it into jewelry, raising money from sales made in jewelry stores in cities like singapore for organizations that help land mine victims. http://entrepid.sg/pamela-yeo-swords-into-plowshares/
2 start up Bookbridge www.bookbridge.org/ : learning centres in Cambodia and Mongolia founded by Carsten Rubsaamen of Germany provide free reading lessons for children and English lessons for adults often paid for by the companies they work for, with many of the materials furnished with book donations from Germany. While Bookbridge funds the centers at the front end, they're designed to turn over control to local people. -one world claims to make literacy a commitment area- Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable, and journalist and activist, Fatima Bhutto, discussed the role of education and the importance of working to increase literacy levels around the world. The delegates challenged each other to get out in their own communities and take action.
3 Villageboom www.villageboom.com/ founder thomas ricke in germany serves Africa starting in Ghana , one of those selected, creates employment opportunities for rural villages in developing countries, and is introducing a microbusiness model based on a solar light to replace kerosene lamps, which local people are encouraged to adopt.
Yunus announces from pittsburg oct 2012 http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/one-yo...
Among the recipients were 23-year-old Pamela Yeo of Singapore, whose company Saught takes metals from abandoned land mines in Cambodia and turns it into jewelry, raising money for organizations that help land mine victims.
Kit Needham is senior business adviser at Project Olympus, a business incubator at Carnegie Mellon University. She said she's seeing more and more students with social business proposals, a trend that buoys her hope that more students are interested in applying their business acumen to making the world a better place."They want to solve world problems with a business process," she said. The benefit over traditional nonprofits is "it alleviates the need to fundraise."The challenge is finding a successful model, she said, but when entrepreneurs do, they can often contribute to solving several problems simultaneously.
For Ms. Yeo, creating a workable model meant weaving together the work of several NGOs. The company relies on two groups that collect abandoned land mines in Cambodia to provide them with the materials they use to make the jewelry. An Italian NGO, Fileo Development, trains Cambodian street youth to make the jewelry. And two groups that help land mine victims get the proceeds.
Saught, Ms. Yeo's organization, will also receive a 20,000 Euro loan that will help the business expand its product beyond stores in Singapore.
What makes a social enterprise "so compelling is the idea that it's able to self-sustain," she said.
Carsten Rubsaamen of Germany, whose organization Bookbridge was awarded a social business fund no-interest 20,000 Euro loan on Friday, said the social business model has a leg up over traditional nonprofits in some contexts.
His organization builds learning centers in Cambodia and Mongolia that provide free reading lessons for children and English lessons for adults often paid for by the companies they work for, with many of the materials furnished with book donations from Germany. While Bookbridge funds the centers at the front end, they're designed to turn over control to local people.
A 31-year-old with a degree in business, he had never heard of the term social business when he started Bookbridge, which now pays his salary. The learning centers require local buy-in and investment of time, money and resources. That's one of the benefits of many social business models: it's not charity.
"I don't want the people in Cambodia to depend on my fundraising," he said. "It creates a lot of freedom and also, dignity."
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! Grameen Solar
2 Grameen Mobile Nursing nets and college
3 Portfolio of investments linkedin by Japan
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5 Investments in Grameen as collaboration brand linked in out of paris- the origin of global social business partnership funds
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