Social Enterprise News

Neal: Sharing a new way to do business
Asheville Citizen-Times
“Legal Strategies for Social Enterprise & Sustainable Economies: A workshop for communities, leaders, and practitioners” will be held 1:30-4:30 pm Wednesday in the Haynes Conference Center on the Enka campus of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community ...

The Express Tribune
Stress laid on social entrepreneurship to help poor
The Express Tribune
By Kazim Alam AFP is a global non-profit venture capital fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to address problems of water, healthcare, housing, agriculture, energy and education by raising philanthropic capital and investing in social enterprises ...
Encouragement of social entrepreneurship stressedBusiness Recorder (blog)

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SGentrepreneurs (press release)
Singapore's Teamie wins Startup Arena competition, and a US$10000 check
SGentrepreneurs (press release)
Coming in third is Start Now, a social enterprise that has launched a free-to-use platform that makes it easier for NGOs to find volunteers and vice-versa. What I like about Start Now is the comprehensiveness of their platform — NGOs have tools to ...

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Salesforce.com Makes U-Turn on Analytics Pricing
Enterprise Apps Today
"As a social enterprise, it's essential we listen to our customers and what they expect around continuous innovation and enhancements on their existing products," Hu said. "We welcome your feedback." Bucketing. This feature will let users group data ...

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National Field: The Data Driven Social Enterprise
InformationWeek
Take a tour through the latest iteration of the enterprise social platform the Obama campaign used to track, share data on its outreach efforts. By Fritz Nelson InformationWeek The Obama campaign used National Field in 2008 to bring together and share ...

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Social entrepreneurship for global education issues
Microfinance Focus
Within the last decade however, an emerging group of social entrepreneurs has begun to advance innovative solutions to these problems by using business acumen to address market and government limitations. How Social Entrepreneurship is Helping to ...

National Field: The Data Driven Social Enterprise
InformationWeek
Take a tour through the latest iteration of the enterprise social platform the Obama campaign used to track, share data on its outreach efforts. The Obama campaign used National Field in 2008 to bring together and share all of the data around its ...

Helping social enterprise accelerate
The Guardian (blog)
Ernst & Young have invited the Brilliant Club to join its new Accelerate programme, which supports young business leaders and social entrepreneurs. Founded by Jonny Sobczyk and Simon Coyle, Brilliant Club's vision is to create an education system in ...

McGraw-Hill Research Foundation Policy Paper Shows How Social Entrepreneurship ...
Sacramento Bee
2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the last decade, social entrepreneurship has been touted as one of the most promising ways to solve some of the world's problematic issues. How Social Entrepreneurship is Helping to Improve Education Worldwide, a McGraw-Hill ...

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McGraw-Hill Research Foundation Policy Paper Shows How Social Entrepreneurship ...
MarketWatch (press release)
2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In the last decade, social entrepreneurship has been touted as one of the most promising ways to solve some of the world's problematic issues. How Social Entrepreneurship is Helping to Improve Education Worldwide, ...

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Harvard's Julie Battilana Takes the Pulse of the Social Entrepreneurship Movement
Dowser
A duo of researchers at the Harvard Business School recently set out to investigate movers in the field of social entrepreneurship beyond the big names who attract the most attention. Their study uses six years' worth of applicants for an Echoing Green ...

£3m fund helps social enterprises
Bourne Local
Social enterprises supporting environmental and economic improvements in Kent are getting access to millions of pounds in funding. The Big Society Fund from Kent County Council in partnership with the charity Kent Community Foundation has made £3 ...

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The Social Enterprise: Your Path To Job Security
InformationWeek
For the third year in a row, collaboration initiatives and social networking technologies will receive an increased percentage of IT budgets, according to Enterprise Strategy Group research. While that finding in and of itself isn't all that surprising ...

Social Media Week And The Social Enterprise Hub At SAP
Business 2 Community
Topics that will be covered include Topical Influencers, Reaching Developers, Testing Your Way Into Social, Enterprise & Startups, Trading & Investment, Developer Relations, Regulation & Legal, Business Systems, Business Information Design, ...

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Social Enterprise Marks 10 Years of Creating Jobs in Developing Countries
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A pioneering social enterprise, DDD creates jobs for talented youth in Cambodia, Laos and Kenya by delivering business process outsourcing services to clients worldwide. At the same time, DDD's data management operators (DMOs) are able to obtain a ...

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Blears to push Hurd on definition for social enterprise
Civil Society Media
Labour MP Hazel Blears plans to write to minister for civil society Nick Hurd urging him to consider a statutory definition for social enterprise, after he recently confirmed that the government had no plans to introduce one. In response, Hurd admitted ...

Brum wins £600K from 'Transforming Local Infrastructure' fund
Social Enterprise Live (blog)
Well, this morning I heard the best news in ages — the bid submitted by Birmingham's TLI partnership has been successful, securing just under £600k for the transformation of how third sector and social enterprise support in Birmingham is delivered.

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New enterprise training for local groups
Dumfries and Galloway Standard
Dumfries and Galloway Social Enterprise Network (DGSEN) have teamed up with the Social Enterprise Academy to offer free business training to local groups who may want to chance their arm. The programme, called Developing Your Social Enterprise, ...

Capita's National Conference on Commissioning Social Enterprise - Friday 27th ...
PR.com (press release)
The launch of the Open Public Services White Paper last year and the introduction of the Public Services (Social Value) Bill in Parliament has meant that the role of Social Enterprise in public service delivery is becoming ever greater.

Award winning enterprise "the people's supermarket" looks for first store in Wales
Farming UK
The UK's most famous and successful member-owned and run social enterprise, The People's Supermarket (TPS), has today announced that it is currently reviewing plans to support the opening of an upcoming store in Cardiff. Plans for 'Siop y Bobl', ...

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