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Social Entreprenuership

America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs

by Microfinance Business on April 9, 2009

Social entrepreneurs—enterprising individuals who apply business practices to solving societal problems such as pollution, poor nutrition, and poverty—are now 30,000 strong and growing, according to B Lab, a nonprofit organization that certifies these purpose-driven companies. Together, they represent some $40 billion in revenue.

Not surprising, then, that they’ve caught the attention of venture capitalists such as [...]

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Social entrepreneurship in India

by Microfinance Business on February 19, 2009

When Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize awardee and founder of Grameen Bank, was contacted by the Nobel Foundation for the customary winner interview, he remarked,

…poverty is an artificial creation. It doesn’t belong to human civilisation, and we can change that, we can make people come out of poverty (sic). The only thing we have [...]

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