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This year's Global Communities' One Good Idea Award winner is the Entrepreneurship Development activity in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka's Entrepreneurship Development activity focuses on engaging youth in solving social issues through economic and business opportunities.
The Entrepreneurship Development is a six-month program proposed by Global Communties' subsidiary in Jordan, Partners for Good and will expand the concept of the competitive TV show 'Mosh Mostaheel' developed by Partners for Good and currently in its second season in Jordan.
The proposal supports a primary goal of the YouLead! project in Sri Lanka of increasing prospects for successful self-employment through the program’s entrepreneurship and access to finance activities in Sri Lanka. Read the Entire Article
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"To differentiate and compete, you really have to pay attention to technology," says Chat Reynders, CEO of Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management. "It was becoming clear to me that our tech wasn't...more
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Craig Lewis used to be a pro basketball player. Now he's a tech entrepreneur. Lewis founded Gig Wage, a company that helps workers earn extra money by using facial recognition technology, and...more
There's a huge market for solar power in India, and it's thanks in large part to government incentives, reports the Wall Street Journal. In fact, the country had just one megawatt-hour of solar...more
Treehugger's list of the world's top tree-huggers is out, and it includes a company that's "one of the world's biggest tree-huggers," per Business Insider. That would be British telecom company...more
Treehugger's list of the world's top tree-huggers is out, and it includes a company that's "one of the world's biggest tree-huggers," per Business Insider. That would be British telecom company...more
"If you want to have impact, then IT, healthcare, and industrials will be the core three elements." That's what Anna V ? n ? 'nen, head of listed impact equity at AXA Investment Managers, has to...more
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"The main threat is the long-standing lack of sufficient funding for healthcare systems," Ota Akhigbe writes at the Conversation. "This funding gap means millions cannot get basic health care,...more
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
Social Entrepreneurship
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Social Enterprise HandiConnect Wins Audacious Award in New Zealand
Social enterprise, HandiConnect, wins the Audacious-Business Idea competition’s Doing Good category. The company is spearheaded by University of Otago entrepreneurship master’s student Nguyen Cam Van.
