The Business Fights Poverty Magazine: Issue 6

13 Jan 2021

Enjoy Our 2020 Thank You Playlist

The Music of our Rebuild Better Series

28 Dec 2020

Building Forward Better - Closer sector collaboration to build a more resilient future

NEW REPORT: Building Forward Better - Mining as a Partner in Supporting More Inclusive and Resilient Societies

03 Sep 2020

Financing impact start-ups: two solutions, two challenges

By Jerry Marshall, Chairman, Transcend Support Ltd; Development Consultant, Transformational Business Network.

11 Jul 2020

The post-COVID-19 world presents an opportunity for better business, but will it happen?

By Christian Jahn, Executive Director, and Susann Tischendorf, Director, Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN)

23 Jun 2020

Covid-19 and the Voluntary Sector

By Jonathan Roberts, Teaching Director and Senior Lecturer in Practice at LSE’s Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

24 Apr 2020

How Can International Donors Help Businesses Scale their Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals?

Live Written Discussion: Thursday 7 November 3pm-4pm GMT (10am-11am EST)

23 Oct 2019

Registration Open: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2019, 23 September

Join us on 23 September for our annual event during UN General Assembly week.

18 Jul 2019

Joyeux Noel: In The Midst of War

By Timothy L. Fort PhD, JD, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Business Law & Ethics, Kelley School of Business and Indiana University​

16 Jul 2019

Surviving Sustainability - Working In CSR Without Burning Out

By Solitaire Townsend Co-founder, Futuerra

27 Jul 2018

Building Resilience Among Micro Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

16 Dec 2016

Investing in Human Capital

By Linda Ann Reddington, Emerging Market Social Business Consultant

12 Sep 2016

A Global View of Financial Linkages

Register now for this webinar with SEEP Network exploring the linkages between informal savings groups and formal financial service providers, 9am Eastern / 2pm GMT, 17 February.

10 Feb 2016

Happy New Year and Introducing New Strategy for 2016

By Zahid Torres-Rahman, Business Fights Poverty

07 Jan 2016

Purposeful Leadership: Human Centered Design to Fight UK Poverty

Register now for this workshop on 15 December organised by London+Acumen, in partnership with Business Fights Poverty.

20 Nov 2015

Business Practitioner Workshop: Embedding the Global Goals into Business

Are you a business practitioner? Register now for this workshop on 1 December in London, on embedding the Global Goals into business. The workshop is hosted by Business Fights Poverty, the UN Global Compact, BITC, Fairtrade Foundation and The Partnering Initiative, and supported by DFID and Anglo American.

20 Nov 2015

Building Stronger Programmes: Insights from the Impact Benchmark Study of Immersive In-Market Learning Programmes

Click here to register for this webinar on using in-market learning programmes to drive business results, hosted by Emerging World on 19 November 3.30-4.30 GMT.

12 Nov 2015

Your Advice Needed! Please Share Your Thoughts on How We Can Improve

We would appreciate 5 or so minutes of our time to tell us about your priorities and how we can build a new and improved Business Fights Poverty that brings value to your work.

06 Nov 2015

Leadership Development that Lasts: Using Immersive In-Market Learning Programmes to Drive Business Results

Click here to register for this webinar on using in-market learning programmes to drive business results, hosted by Emerging World on 12 November 3.30-4.30 GMT.

06 Nov 2015

Business and the United Nations

Register now for launch event of a new report by Business Fights Poverty and Harvard Kennedy School's CSR Initiative, hosted by the UN SDG Fund on 10 November in New York.

30 Oct 2015

Responsible Business Forum

Register now for the 4th Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development, taking place from 2-4 November in Singapore, to share innovations and practical solutions for climate action and delivering the sustainable development goals.

30 Oct 2015

Scaling Social Business in East Africa

Register now for this regional symposium that will take place from 18 - 20 November 2015 in Kampala, Uganda, and is hosted by ICS and Ka Tutandike Uganda in partnership with Ashoka East Africa, Kulika Uganda, Royal African Society, AGRICS Ltd. and Yunus Social Business Foundation.

30 Oct 2015

Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Success at Scale, 27 October, London

Click here to apply for a place at this panel discussion in London on 27 October (5.30 - 7pm), marking the launch of a new report by Business Fights Poverty and Harvard Kennedy School's CSR Initiative. Speakers include DFID, Diageo, ODI, Oxfam and Pearson.

15 Oct 2015

Harnessing Domestic Inclusive Business for Social Impact, 24 September, New York

Click here to register for this breakfast event in New York, coinciding with the UN General Assembly. Panellists include leaders from Creditfamilia (Colombia), Onergy (India), Lal Teer Seed (Bangladesh) and Diageo (UK).

16 Sep 2015

Business Call to Action Annual Forum 2015, 24 September, New York

Click here to register for this half-day event in New York, coinciding with the UN General Assembly. Join leaders of prominent inclusive businesses as well as senior representatives from government, bilateral donors, civil society and the United Nations.

16 Sep 2015

Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Success at Scale, 25 September, New York

Click here to apply for a place at this high-level breakfast event in New York, part of the SGF Forum and coinciding with the UN General Assembly. Speakers include the UK Secretary of State for International Development and the head of the UN Global Compact, along with senior representatives from Citi, GSK, Pearson and World Vision.

16 Sep 2015

Intrapreneur Lab 2015

Register now for the Intrapreneur Lab, 19-21 October, Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK. The Intrapreneur Lab is 3-day + 3-month accelerator programme for individuals inside companies to develop profitable innovations that create social impact - and become intrapreneurs in the process.

08 Aug 2015

A Dialogue on Business Leadership for an Inclusive Economy

Click here to join BSR for a morning dialogue (8:45 am-1:30 pm GMT) in London to explore how the private sector can help build a more inclusive economy through good jobs, access to essential goods and services, and investments for prosperous communities.

01 Jun 2015

Closing Africa's Energy Gap

Join our lunchtime panel discussion with Standard Chartered Bank, ContourGlobal and the UK Department for International Development from 12.30 to 1.30 on 2 June in Cape Town, to coincide with the World Economic Forum on Africa Summit and the IGD Frontier 100 Forum. Apply for a place now!

26 May 2015

Closing Africa's Energy Gap

Join our lunchtime panel discussion with Standard Chartered Bank, ContourGlobal and the UK Department for International Development from 12.30 to 1.30 on 2 June in Cape Town, to coincide with the World Economic Forum on Africa Summit and the IGD Frontier 100 Forum. Apply for a place now!

26 May 2015

How Can NGOs Successfully Scale Business Ideas?

Join Erik Simanis, Head of the Frontier Markets Initiative at Cornell University, and Anna Gerrard, Technical Advisor: market-based and private sector programmes at Sightsavers, to discuss the lessons from Sightsavers' experience in scaling their impact by implementing business ideas.

26 May 2015

Linking savings groups to banks - What works, what doesn’t, what’s next?

Click here to join the webinar with Care International UK

14 Apr 2015

Shared Value Leadership Summit

Register now for the 2015 Shared Value Leadership Summit, 12-13 May, New York. The Summit will gather the world's leading thinkers and doers of shared value to deliver the "how-to" of building a shared value strategy that truly showcases business at its best.

30 Mar 2015

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Follow us on Twitter via @FightPoverty

17 Mar 2015

Inclusion, Inc.

Click here to register for Inclusion, Inc. hosted by the Institute for Business in the Global Context at Tufts University's Fletcher School, April 9-10, Boston

16 Mar 2015

Responsible Business Summit Asia

Click here to register for Responsible Business Summit Asia, 6-7 May 2015, in Singapore, and find out where business leaders and innovators in the region are headed around their sustainability and CSR strategy.

16 Feb 2015