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Doing Business with the World: The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development
Doing Business with the World, a publication of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), describes how companies can contribute to global sustainable development through their core businesses in a way that is profitable for the companies and good for development.
Venture capital for low-income markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Investing in housing, healthcare, education, basic utilities and nutrition can not only fulfill a social mission, but can also be a profitable business venture.
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
A discussion paper on social intrapreneurship
This paper produced by the Doughty Centre at the Cranfield University examines the potential value of social intrapreneurship, and provisionally defines a social intrapreneur as "a person within a large corporation who takes direct initiative for innovation which addresses social or environmental...
Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments
Thousands of Salvadorans with no credit history can access loans now to make home improvements and expand their home businesses. El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing...
The Global Partnership Social Investment Fund seeks investments in Latin America
The NGO Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance and moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital. It aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by combining these loans with affordable social investments, such as health services, training and low-cost pensions and...
Vision Banco partners with Habitat to provide low-income housing in Paraguay
Thousands of low income Paraguayans will be able to make home improvements with credits provided by a Vision Banco-Habitat partnership.
FSG: Elevating job skills worldwide
The Foundation Strategy Group (FSG) is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation and research.
Starbucks join the Conservation movement
Conservation International has worked with Starbucks Coffee Company for more than 14 years to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes as embodied in the company’s...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
Tate & Lyle and Fairtrade sugar farming in Belize
This video shows a number of sugar farmers in Belize speaking about their problems following a recent hurricane and welcoming the announcement by Tate and Lyle that sugar production will, in future, be in accordance with Fair Trade standards.
Starbucks and Fair Trade NGOs partner
Starbucks, TransFair USA and Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International join in support of small-scale coffee farmers through a $20 million loan program.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers provides mentors on Big Brothers, Big Sisters programme
This video features a news item about a workplace volunteer mentoring programme in which PwC employees work with the Big Brothers Big Sisters NGO in New York City.
Starbucks Joins the Conservation International Movement
Since 1998, Starbucks has partnered with Conservation International (CI), a nonprofit organisation, to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes.
Chevron subsidiary partners with local charity to engage impoverished communities in Angola
Search for Common Ground, an organisation dedicated to conflict transformation, has been working in Angola's oil-rich enclave of Cabinda since October 2006. In a private-public partnership co-funded by USAID and Chevron's local oil subsidiary, SFCG has collaborated with nine impoverished fishing...
Coffee Kids partners with private sector to rebuild coffee farmers' community in Indonesia
In late April 2005, the Aceh Tsunami Relief Fund, established by the NGO Coffee Kids, in partnership with the corporation ForesTrade Inc., began a project to support the reconstruction of local community infrastructure in the coffee-growing Gayo Highland region in Central Aceh, Indonesia.
Sainsbury's assisted a charity gardening enterprise
Sainsbury’s was one of the few companies which supported Mow & Grow when it was a tiny voluntary group. Its funding in the early days ensured its survival of this social enterprise offering a gardening and horticultural service to those in need.
British Gas supports Save the Children improve the living conditions and lives of children in Britain
In 2004, Save the Children UK and British Gas partnered to launch the 'Help Yourselves' scheme, a funding project designed to make one million homes in Britain warmer, safer and more comfortable. Since then, over 180 grants of £1,000 or £3,000 have been given to groups of vulnerable children and...
Lex Mundi Legal Services Allows Social Entrepreneurs To Use Their Top-class Legal Expertise Pro Bono
The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation calls upon Lex Mundi's unique global network of 160 top tier business law firms to provide legal assistance to 'social entrepreneurs' on a pro bono basis. By providing social entrepreneurs with access to critically needed legal assistance, the foundation joins the...
Freshfields provides necessary assistance to Crossroads as they ship much-needed goods to aid marginalized populations
The Freshfields Hong Kong office holds volunteer days for Crossroads Foundation, a relief agency that ships goods donated by Hong Kong residents to marginalized populations in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. The office sends personnel to volunteer on a weekly basis to help the charity sort...