Peaceworks In Business Week: Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter

Here’s a article about Peaceworks, a “successful global business that promotes peace through commercial ventures among Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Turks, Indonesians, and Sri Lankans”. They are pioneering a different flavor of social entrepreneurship that is promoting peacemaking through business. “We are using market forces to achieve the goal of peace and coexistence,” says Lubetzky. Having… Continue reading Peaceworks In Business Week: Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter

Published
Categorized as General

Synergos Social Innovators Program

The Synergos Institute, based in New York City has launched a Social Innovators Program in the Middle East and North Africa and sends the following message: Are you making a difference in your community? We can help give you the tools and funding to do it better. Synergos Social Innovators Program We’re hoping to make… Continue reading Synergos Social Innovators Program

Published
Categorized as General

OLPC Makes It To India

It was a disappointment when India didn’t show any interest in the OLPC, but it looks like the non-profit has made considerable progress in the country with some local help: Two years later, Negroponte is back to open a new office in New Delhi and launch the OLPC program in India on Aug. 4. Despite… Continue reading OLPC Makes It To India

Socially Responsible Investment Firm Bought Shares In Defense, Tobacco, and Gambling Businesses

Forgot to link to this article last week from the WSJ: Pax World Management Corp., one of the best-known “socially responsible” investment firms, settled Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it violated its own rules against purchasing shares in companies involved in such businesses as defense, alcohol, tobacco and gambling. The settlement — in which… Continue reading Socially Responsible Investment Firm Bought Shares In Defense, Tobacco, and Gambling Businesses

Published
Categorized as General

The Problem Brewing In Microlending

There’s been a long running rift in the micropayments world, with Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winning founder of Grameen Bank, on one side and for-profit counterparts such as Compartamos on the other side. Yunus has accused these for-profit lenders of being nothing more than loan sharks. Compartamos defends themselves and say that they create… Continue reading The Problem Brewing In Microlending

Published
Categorized as General