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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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Bosch Celebrates 125th Anniversary With New Foundation, Grant Money
Social Enterprise: Beginning in January, Bosch is offering up $3 million in grants each year as part of the Bosch Community Fund, a new fo...
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Social Innovation to Deliver Clean Drinking Water for the World's Poor
Social Enterprise: Paul Polak has been a social entrepreneur long before the term came into vogue. He designs socially innovative products...
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Social Entrepreneurship at Play in London Olympics
Social Enterprise: London Olympic Games 2012 will take place in one of the economically disadvantaged locations in the city. It was a soci...
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Orkney Islands: Living Social Innovation to the Full
Social Enterprise: The 70 islands that make-up the Orkneys, an archipelago in northern Scotland, is producing cutting edge social innovati...
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NGO Calls On UK Government To Promote Sustainable, Healthy Diet
Corporate Social Responsibility: Since the UN released a report in 2006 in which it said that livestock is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emission...
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World Bank Report Says -Investing in Women Makes Economic Sense and Increases Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise: The World Bank published its 'World Development Report 2012' this September, 2011. It insists that creating better oppo...
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Social Entrepreneur Bringing Quality Vision Care to India's Poor
Social Enterprise: Dr. R.V. Ramani, founder of the Sankara Eye Care in Coimbatore, India, has created a successful healthcare model to del...
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Sustainable Biofuel Project Gets DOE Loan Guarantee
Corporate Social Responsibility: POET, the largest ethanol producer in the world, announced it has received final approval for a $105 million loan guara...
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Social Innovation Needed for Starbucks 'Cup Summit'
Social Enterprise: Starbucks, the global coffee house is looking to social innovation to save the day and improve its unsustainable dispos...
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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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Indian Exceptionalism: Searching for the Big Idea in the World's Biggest Democracy
Social Enterprise: "Bold ideas are almost passe'." -- Neal Gabler, senior fellow, Annenberg Norman Lear Center, University of Southern Ca...
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Social Enterprise:Summit Says that the Geography of the World's Poverty Has Changed
Social Enterprise: It is clear that our changing world needs new approaches, flexible thinking and more social enterprise. Recent global f...
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Kellogg Improves Sustainability Score
Corporate Social Responsibility: Iconic food company Kellogg has been working to make its business more sustainable and its efforts are getting recognit...
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Public Believes CSR More Important Than Ever In Tough Economy
Social Enterprise: It has generally been believed that as an economy suffers, the general public would prefer companies put their money in...
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Pop-up Restaurants Raise Awareness and Funds
Social Enterprise: American Express and other corporations have devised a unique way to create corporate social responsibility and spread...
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Deep Impact: Driving Social Change Through Impact Investing and Impact Assessment
Sustainable Finance: "Individuals...are becoming increasingly aware of how they can connect their 'passions with their portfolios.'" -- Ro...
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We Need a Hero: Searching for Justice Among Financial Market Superpredators
Corporate Social Responsibility: "Our regulatory system has not kept pace with the markets and the needs of investors." -- SEC chief Mary L. Schapiro, J...
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Partnerships Brings Social Responsibility to Classrooms
Social Enterprise: A collaboration between a social responsibility organization and Syracuse University is giving students firsthand exper...
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Online Resource for Upcoming Social Enterprises in Arizona
Social Enterprise: A new web resource for budding social entrepreneurs and changemakers in the American Southwest has been launched on Sep...
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World Resources Forum Calls For Sustainability Through Efficiency
Corporate Social Responsibility: With human population expected to grow to a daunting nine billion people by 2050, creating a more sustainable type of e...
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