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A Social Entrepreneur Giving Women in India Dignity
Social Enterprise: One Indian social entrepreneur has given women from low income groups in India dignity, by making it possible for them to afford to buy sanitary towels and provide them with an income at the same time. Arunachalam Muruganantham is the person who changed things. From a poor background in the South of India, he created the world's first low-cost machine to produce sanitary towels. According to a report by market research group AC Nielsen, "Sanitary Protection: Every Woman's Health Right", 88% of women in India are driven to use ashes, newspapers, sand husks and dried leaves during their periods. As a result of these unhygienic practices...
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships from PresenTense
Social Enterprise: PresenTense, a volunteer-run group of Jewish social entrepreneurs and innovators has announced the launch of 13 social...
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Social Innovation: Solving the Society's Most Stubborn Problems
Social Enterprise: Social innovation essentially means developing innovative solutions to some of the most intractable problems facing the...
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Social Innovation: Mobile Phones Helping to Fight Stillbirths in Africa
Social Enterprise: Through social innovation, the text message is now a message of hope to women in Africa who suffer from fistula, one of...
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Trees For a More Sustainable, Happier World
Corporate Social Responsibility: Trees play a crucial role in urban landscaping. Besides the esthetic value of these majestic plants, they work as carbo...
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Super HeroRATs Provide Social Enterprise Solutions to Complex Global Problems
Social Enterprise: This is a wonderful story of social enterprise involving rats that belong to APOPO, a Belgian non-government-organisat...
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Straw Hat Pizza Pledges Greener Restaurants
Social Enterprise: Straw Hat Pizza has been a leader in providing food with socially responsible ingredients for decades, but they are exp...
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Hershey Allies With The Ferrero Group For Stronger CSR
Social Enterprise: Chocolate powerhouse, Hershey, is joining with The Ferrero Group for warehouse, transportation and distribution service...
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Arab Leader Seeks CSR Legislation
Social Enterprise: The leader of one of the Arab world's largest service firms is calling for legislation encouraging companies in the Mid...
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Social Entrepreneur Shows Solar Power is Cheap
Social Enterprise: The Indian social entrepreneur Harish Hande won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2011 for his path-breaking work i...
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Action Kivu Needs Help For Socially Responsible Project in the Congo
Corporate Social Responsibility: In the Eastern Congo, one quarter of the children who die before their fifth birthday die from a preventable disease su...
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India's Airport Gets a Social Innovation Makeover
Social Enterprise: Green building and social innovation techniques are becoming worldwide trends and India's new airports are no exception...
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Tweet the People: Twitter Fueled the Revolutionaries in Tahrir, Will It Do the Same for "Occupy Wall Street"?
Sustainable Finance: "As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us...
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Sustainable Power Company Helps Non-Profits Go Solar
Corporate Social Responsibility: Green Mountain Energy Company, a retail provider of clean energy, is seeking New York-area non-profit organizations int...
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Nuclear Reactions: Six Months After Fukushima, the World Readjusts
Energy & Emissions: "Nuclear power is safe and nuclear power is clean and nuclear power is renewable." -- President George W. Bush, Septemb...
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Awards for Social Entrepreneurs at Santa Clara University Conference
Social Enterprise: A conference at Santa Clara University on October 19 will feature 15 global socially responsible companies that will be...
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Social Innovation: Touchdown of the New Iconic Boeing 787
Social Enterprise: Ladies and Gentleman, fasten your seatbelts, we finally have touchdown. The U.K. airlines welcomed the arrival of the m...
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Our Land: How Private Landownwers Can Help Save America's Forests
Sustainable Finance: "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." -- John Muir (1838-1914), founder of Sierra Club[1...
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Governor Cuomo's Big Nano-Adventure: New York Wins $4.4-Billion Nanotech Investment, But Is It Sustainable?
Sustainable Finance: "This unprecedented private investment in New York's economy will create thousands of jobs." -- Governor Andrew M. Cuo...
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Brazil Launches Program To Help The Poor Engage in Sustainable Economy
Corporate Social Responsibility: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched on Wednesday (28) a new program called Bolsa Verde (Green Grant) to promote...
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Manpower Recognized For CSR Leadership
Social Enterprise: ManpowerGroup is known for putting people to work, and it's being recognized as a leader in corporate social responsibi...
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