Social Enterprises

Social Enterprises Leading the Fight Against Global Poverty

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Being a Climate Activist with Pushpanath Krishnamurthy

What does it take to be a climate activist? Social Impact Pioneer and climate activist Pushpanath Krishnamurthy talks about what motivates and drives him to give up an easy life and devote it to campaigning for climate justice.
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NGO Advocacy with Chelsea Hodgkins, Oxfam America

How can civil society hold businesses and governments to account? This podcast examines the role of NGO advocacy and activism in pushing for better social and environmental outcomes.
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Devi Thomas Social Impact Movements

Building Social Impact Movements with Devi Thomas, Microsoft

Meet Social Impact Pioneer Devi Thomas. During our conversation, Devi shares her wisdom and experience in successfully developing and delivering social movements and campaigns. Rarely does someone so generously gift their secret sauce as Devi does during this conversation. She takes us step by step through creating a movement.
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Making the Care Economy Everyone’s Business

Help us drive gender equity: Please take our survey to help us better understand business motivations for addressing the care economy and how entrepreneurs innovating in this space could support your business. 
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Disability Access with Ceri Davies

How can business better support people with disabilities and access issues? There are an estimated 1 billion people globally experiencing some form of disability. Though accessibility issues are inherently personal, with so many people face extra challenges to navigate our world – how can we all better support each other
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Accelerating Development Entrepreneurs, with Richenda Van Leeuwen

How do you unlock the social impact potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? And how can development entrepreneurs maximise their success? Meet social impact pioneer Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director of ANDE – The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs.
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Becoming a Social Entrepreneur, with Kevin Mutiso

How to become a social entrepreneur? Meet social impact pioneer Kevin Mutiso. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur, whose businesses repeatedly get selected as top start-ups across Africa.
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Ben Jeffreys, ATEC, clean and safe cooking

Ben Jeffreys is a social impact pioneer – he is dedicating his life to bring clean cooking to everyone around the world. Ben believes that this is one of, if not the world’s biggest social and environmental challenge … and he has the statistics to back it up.
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Eric Meade, Reframing Poverty

Meet Eric Meade, social impact pioneer and deep thinker about what poverty really means. During this conversation be prepared to rethink what poverty means to you and to others. Discover ways to better understand poverty, how others might be experiencing poverty. Apply this understanding to make better decisions and deliver deeper poverty-alleviating impacts.
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Six ways social entrepreneurs can step up to help refugees

Half of refugees in the UK struggle to get employed. What can those of us working in the social impact space do to help them find meaningful work? In the recent WISE Ways to Lead webinar, hosted by Pioneers Post in partnership with NatWest, we heard from social enterprises working with refugees to answer just that. Read on for highlights, and watch the full discussion video.
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NaTakallam – where language learning meets social impact for refugees

Today, there are over 100 million forcibly displaced people in the world. NaTakallam, a social enterprise, is disrupting the way we typically think of humanitarianism, language learning and international development. By being the bridge to the private sector, NaTakallam provides vital work opportunities for refugees and conflict-affected individuals, including in Ukraine.
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How to social impact partner with Clive Allison and Nivedha RM

How to find your perfect social impact partner, and why partnering with social entrepreneurs is vital explain Clive Allison, Unilever and social entrepreneur Nivedha RM
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Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez

Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez. Leading thinking to drive responsible and inclusive business deep into the core of companies.
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Chocolate supply chains with Shawn Askinosie

How to build resilience chocolate supply chains? Social enterprise founder, ethical chocolate CEO: Shawn Askinosie shares his insights.
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Rosa Wang, mobile technology frontiers

Rosa Wang, social impact pioneer, examines how mobile technology frontiers are providing financial access, connectivity, identity and empowerment for people across the world – from Kenya to India.
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Jiselle and Cesar, On Gender Transformative Approaches

Cesar and Jiselle share some of their 30 plus years of experience working on women’s empowerment. Together they have recently been working on ‘gender transformative approaches.’ Cesar and Jiselle deep dive into what this means and the practicalities of implementing gender transformative approaches – for businesses everywhere, across value chains.
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Ayan Said, Voicing Voices

Ayan provides practical tools and tips to help us all, and particularly business decision makers to create the spaces for better communication.
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Boda Boda, Economic Development and the Future of Work

The BodaBoda Safety Association of Kenya (B.A.K) currently has 1.4 million registered members. 1.2 million of these are between the ages of 18-35. As an association, our entire membership base is made up of small business owners. We are developing a framework to effectively upskill and reskill for the future of work.
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Are you a social innovator working to increase access to healthcare? Apply now!

Applications are open for the Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2022. This competition awards impact-driven, market-based organizations that contribute to building resilient societies. This year, the award targets enterprises that increase financial access to healthcare in low-income communities.
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Seeking entrepreneurs and SMEs that are innovating in the care economy

Business Fights Poverty is excited to be part of a new programme to transform the care economy and is seeking SMEs and entrepreneurs across our network to be matched with investors. Sign up by 10th December. Read on for more information!
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Social enterprises are leading the charge against global poverty through innovative business models and sustainable economic practices. Learn more...

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