Business

Business Innovations & Initiatives

Investing In The Energy Transition

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) bridges the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. It identifies promising clean energy projects at an early stage and provides no-cost coaching and investment facilitation. When in place, these measures make it easier for investors to understand a project’s potential, increasing the odds that they will make an investment.
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Bringing Business Back Home: Biomass Energy of Sri Lanka

Biomass Supplies, a Sri Lankan subsidiary of Biomass Group – the visionary renewable energy company – is developing Sri Lanka’s abundant sustainable energy resources through innovative partnerships with the country’s smallholder farmers.
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Entrepreneurs Are Changing The World

The CEMEX-Tec Award, in alliance with other organisations, annually recognises entrepreneurs and students who develop high-impact initiatives to foster sustainable development, innovation and entrepreneurship. This year its global call will receive projects until May 31st 2018.
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Sweet Dreams Coming True For Syrian Refugees

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Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.
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Gib Bulloch

Meet Gib Bulloch, Intrapreneur turned author, Intrapreneur-in-Residence at Business Fights Poverty, a Steward of The League of Intrapreneurs and a Visiting Fellow of Social Intrapreneurship at Cranfield School of Management.
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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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Making Payment Acceptance a Driver for Financial Inclusion

Mastercard believe that merchant acceptance is key to financial inclusion. Here they discuss advancing payment acceptance at the base of the pyramid and how new product solutions, business models and partnerships can advance both electronic payments and financial inclusion.
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Sustainability Standards Embrace GIS Technology

ISEAL Alliance, who represent the global movement of sustainability standards, share insights on the exponential growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainability and how this integrative technology is enabling standards to deliver a more tailored approach to compliance and capacity building, making certification more accessible to smallholders.
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How Can Companies Develop Systems That Drive Commercial Innovation With Social Impact?

We are delighted to launch our new Intrapreneurship Systems Challenge, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and CEMEX, and in partnership with The League of Intrapreneurs, to explore how we can create an enabling environment that will systemise social innovation and intrapreneurship.
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Missed our Skoll World Forum 2018 Ecosystem Event on Corporate Social Innovation?

Register to receive our Skoll World Forum 2018 Ecosystem event video. The event was held on 10 April in Oxford, UK. Learn about how social innovation can drive business and societal value. Explore real-life examples from leading companies of what social innovation looks like and how it is being enabled.
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How can we harness corporate social innovation to unlock opportunity in your organisation?

Click here to join the discussion with GSK, Barclays, the UK Department for International Development and The League of Intrapreneurs.
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Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.
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Success on Every Corner: How Mom-and-Pop Shops Can Drive Growth in Africa

The Mom and Pop Shops Project, a partnership between TechnoServe, the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative, the elea Foundation, and others, aims to address skills gaps for micro retailers around Nairobi and Abuja. Here Technoserve share their insights about how to help micro-retailers become engines for local growth.
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Corporate Social Innovation: Unlocking the opportunity in your organisation

Join our Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Event to learn how to unlock the potential of social innovation in your organisation. This interactive and practical event
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5 Ways Local Markets Help Refugees Rebuild Their Lives

In the westernmost corner of Uganda, something interesting is happening. This rural area of Uganda is challenging perceptions of how refugees can contribute to the local economy. West Nile in Uganda is home to hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees, and together with their Ugandan host communities, they are beginning to drive growth.
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Affordability – Beyond the Buzzword

Affordability is at the core of much of CDC’s work as impact investors – from affordable electricity to housing, food, healthcare, education and many more. Yet ask someone to define what it means, and you may be met with little more than a blank stare.
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Successful Businesswoman Inspires Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

With support from the UNIDO trade sector development programme in Tanzania, Fatma Riyami, Managing Director of NatureRipe Kilimanjaro and East African Businesswoman of the Year, grew her business rapidly, achieving an annual turnover of half a million US dollars and has gone on to inspire other women entrepreneurs in Tanzania
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Women Sea Salt Producers in Indonesia Cooperate to Seize New Economic Opportunities

MCC’s investments in Indonesia are helping to empower women salt producers to increase the quantity and quality of salt production to boost incomes. The women are benefiting from labor-reducing and energy-efficient technologies as well as training programs aimed at improving salt-making skills, financial management, marketing and more.
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