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There are many ordinary people doing extraordinary work to create social, environmental and economic value. Most of the time we know nothing about their great achievement wich deserves to be known. The SNASEA will be a three day event to showcase the ideas and products of social entrepreneurs. The award ceremony will be the culmination of activities around social entrepreneurship. All of them aim at recognizing and promoting those who create value for people, planet and profit and those who dare to become job creators instead of job seekers.
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What is social entrepreneurship ?
Social entrepreneurship is the contribution of an innovative idea designed to solve a society's social problem: human, environment, ethic .... Social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profit: to be “driven by the heart” is one of the major skills of a social entrepreneur. And unlike the majority of non-profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change. Built a sustainable company is a key directive for a social entrepreneur. As the private sector it has to be competitive but more "heart" than profite driven.
The last two decades have seen an explosion of entrepreneurship and a healthy competition in the social sector, which has discovered what the business sector learned from the railroad, the stock market and the digital revolution.
Unique, Stylish, Empowering | Statement Plant Leather Items... How can fashion serve the poor? 
Some months ago, we visited a village in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City lined with cute little Dutch houses painted in white and blue. It’s hard to picture the place as being one of the largest slum areas in the city during the past decades...
A new GK Europe Page is now available on Facebook. If you want to be a part of the community, please like it :) Thanks to share it and like it :) 
Ryan Emmons the CEO and Founder of Waiākea Hawaiian Volcanic Water, the first sustainable and charitable premium bottled water of its kind joins Enterprise Radio to discuss how the concept evolved into a reality. This is the 6th year of GK bayani Challenge @ Bantayan. 1700 Volunteers 90 teams 5 Countries 5 Days 1 Island Everyone dreamt about a human and social adventure? Have a look on Gawad Kalinga Bayani Challenge. You won't regret it. 
Antonio Meloto’s note, the founder of Gawad Kalinga. He attended this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum, the world’s foremost gathering of business and political leaders, from Jan. 22 to 29 in Davos, Switzerland. 
Fresh tips for starting a social enterprise from Erick Chrispin, a Tanzanian Social Entrepreneur, trainer! 
Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits, written by Heather Mansfield and published by McGraw-Hill, is a comprehensive 256-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 nonprofit communications and fundraising. From building your e-newsletter list to finding your “Twitter voice” to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns. 
Social entrepreneurs believe the best way to help people is to treat them as consumers. Christmas is coming fast that's why shamengo suggest to discover "Retoy centers". |
Find out how Facebook have made a difference to Organ Donation, why Silicon Valley needs more meaningful innovation and what your business can do. I believe that ending extreme poverty can have a greater positive impact on the environment than just about anything else we can do. Today, Chid advises "know thyself" -- the indispensable missing skill for new social entrepreneurs. If you know yourself, you can "really understand people" -- both the impoverished client and, of equal importance, the potential impact investor. Coke bottles light up Filipinos' lives. Amazing! 
The PEARLS Scholarship Program Project will help the children of Ulingan in getting a formal education. Human Nature is the Philippines' largest brand of genuinely natural personal care and cosmetics products. As a social enterprise, it lives by being PRO-PHILIPPINES, PRO-POOR and PRO-ENVIRONMENT. The store houses your favorite natural and organic personal care products, from Human Nature of course, as well as other Filipino Social Enterprise goodies such as: - Golden Eggs: salted eggs, a Filipino favorite, without the toxic food color 
Five Lessons For Becoming a Social Justice Entrepreneur. This post comes from Rupert Scofield, President and CEO of FINCA International and author of “The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook.” 
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture about microfinance, and got sucker-punched. Expecting to hear a litany of pros and cons about the business, and an exploration of good and bad models, I was instead greeted with a knockout punch: Microfinance doesn't work, at least not in the way we think it does. Social entrepreneurship has led to excellent work, but without an informed and empowered population we will never address the core issues we face. 
One Indian social entrepreneur has given women from low income groups in India dignity, by making it possible for them to afford to buy sanitary towels and provide them with an income at the same time
Mr Meloto on a speaking tour of 17 business, management, and development schools in England and France about hope in our bottom-of-the-pyramid initiative called Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its social business offspring, Human Nature. 
A 25-year old Ottawa social entrepreneur, Kanika Gupta, has launched an online platform called Social Journal for young social innovators around the world. The platform is currently in a public beta form. In its final avatar it will play the role of a middleman for 100,000 new and aspiring social innovators and entrepreneurs in their mid-teens to mid-thirties keen to launch socially enterprising ventures globally. Two month ago, I interviewed two passionate about social entrepreneurship who decided to start a project that would allow them to become real changemakers.
Their mission is to cross the world in order to help three social entrepreneurs who work on innovative concept to respond to a social need: problem of access to drinking water, health, electricity, education ... During three month, they will assist these entrepreneurs and their social enterprise and involve their energy, motivation and skills to establish a business plan and a business model to increase their social impact and helping change the scale by attracting new financing.
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