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The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2019: Open for Applications Until 30 June

The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards, delivered by Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, support and celebrate inspirational young people from all over the world who have initiatives, products or services tackling some of the planet’s biggest sustainability challenges. ​
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VIDEO: Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Event – Cross-Sector Collaboration for Sustainable Supply Chains

On 9 April, we co-hosted a Skoll World Forum Ecosystem Event with Acumen, focused on Cross-Sector Collaboration for Sustainable Supply Chains. The event brought together over 100 participants representing leading global corporations, innovative social enterprises, experts and intermediaries. Watch the videos of the plenary sessions.
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Can Global Partners Collaborate with Local Entrepreneurs and Find Solutions to Urgent Urban Water Challenges in Bangalore?

A recent report predicted that Bangalore might be the next major city to face water shortages. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) expects Bangalore to run out of groundwater within just two years – this is in addition to the challenges that the booming city already faces in terms of water sanitation.
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Doing Business with Integrity is Good for Business and Society​

Over the last six months Business Fights Poverty has been working with the UK Government’s Business Integrity Initiative, supported by DFID, FCO and DIT, which aims to help SMEs to anticipate and avoid bribery, corruption and human rights risks when doing business in frontier markets.
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‘Total Stakeholder Value’: Is This a New Purpose that Can Drive Necessary, Systemic Change?

Business and societal failures have arisen from flawed economic and financial theories, and a skewed, systemic, perspective of purpose and value. A new book argues that we can create a socio-economic system in which all organisations are encouraged and incentivised to generate lasting value for all human stakeholders​
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How to Mobilise Finance for Corporate Social Impact? Involve your CFO!

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and JPMorgan Chase & Co., have brought together the CFOs and senior finance and investor relations professionals to understand how they mobilize, support and scale finance for social impact in their organisations.
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Predicting Displacement: Using Predictive Analytics to Build a Better Future for Displaced Children

What more can be done to tackle the global migration crisis? Save the Children are stepping up using predictive analytics. “With better data on how a displacement will impact children and families over time, aid workers and policymakers can make more informed decisions about whether to focus on short-term humanitarian aid or plan for long-term investments”
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Beyond Certification: The Systemic Impacts of Sustainability Standards

Voluntary sustainability standards have the potential to deliver impacts that go beyond individual certified operations and effect wider systemic changes, according to new research published by WWF and ISEAL. These ‘systemic impacts’ help to create an enabling environment for production and consumption practices that benefit people and the planet, and contribute toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Are you a Small Business Working in Frontier Markets? An Opportunity to Showcase your Approach and Influence How You Get Support

We invite you to share your experiences of barriers and drivers of doing business in frontier markets and to help shape how small and medium-sized enterprises are better supported by the UK Government and other organisations in doing their international business.
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Towards Solving the SDG’s Funding Gap: UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative

The UN Environment Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) Global Roundtable took place in Paris recently, an event dedicated to mobilising the financial sector to deliver a sustainable financial system. UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative, “Rethinking Impact to finance the SDGs”, was launched, and explores avenues to closing the SDGs funding gap. ​
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How Can Business Collaborate to Enhance Education for Sustainable Development? A Round-Up of the Latest Business Fights Poverty Online Discussion

Thought-leaders from Pearson, Arizona State University, PRME, BSR, Oikos International, and other organisations took part in an online discussion following the launch of our report on “The Role of Business in Education and Training for Sustainable Development​”. Read the round-up of the conversation.
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Personal Actions that Everyone Can Take to Support the SDGs

New ‘Good Life Goals’ embrace individual action in a fun, easily-understood, and accessible way and offer organisations a charming way of engaging staff, partners and customers in the 17 SDGs.
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VIDEOS: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018

Watch the videos of Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018. The event brought together 200 professionals from business and the development community during UN General Assembly Week to explore the theme of rethinking collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was supported by Barclays and GSK.
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NEW REPORTS: Intrapreneurship, Partnerships, Refugees and Education

Business Fights Poverty has just released a series of reports that mark the culmination of co-creation processes with a range of partners and network members. Topics include Social Intrapreneurship, Transformational Partnerships, Supporting Refugees and Education for Sustainable Development. Download them for free.
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The Role of Business in Education for Sustainable Development

Our new report demonstrates how business can help people gain the skills and knowledge to advance sustainable development, navigate the future of work and create a more prosperous society. The project was led by Business Fights Poverty, Pearson, Arizona State University and PRME, an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact.
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Equity of Learning in Lagos

A​ ​new report​ from DFID shows equity of learning in Bridge Nigeria schools. This marks an important milestone in the debate around Bridge’s role in helping poor families access quality education, not least because it contradicts decades of global education research trends that says family background matters more than the school a child attends.
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Building Transformational Partnerships the Case of Cargill and CARE

Cargill and CARE’s 50-year partnership offers insights and lessons for anyone looking to build an effective and long-term partnership. In this Briefing Paper, we set out success factors across five pillars that others wishing to create or sustain their corporate-NGO partnerships can adapt.
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The Intrapreneurship Ecosystem: Creating the Conditions for Social Intrapreneurs to Thrive

We are delighted to share a new guide that provides a framework for understanding the Intrapreneurship Ecosystem. Our intention with the guide is to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about incubating, scaling and replicating successful inclusive business models and social innovation.
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17 Business Models to Build Refugee Resilience

Our new report,“Resilience through Refugee-Inclusive Business”, aims to help mobilise more business to support this commitment. This includes a taxonomy of 17 practical business models and a series of in-depth briefs on what it will take to mobilise more business and scale solutions that help refugees thrive, not just survive.
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Why Going All in for Sustainability Makes It More Likely a Business Will Encourage Its Intrapreneurs

In their new book “All In – The Future of Business Leadership,” David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee argue that businesses can no longer afford to be hesitant or half-hearted about sustainability. They have to be “All In!”
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