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Business Fights Poverty Global Entrepreneurship Week launches today!

Today sees the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week, a wonderful initiative to “inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity”. Entrepreneurship will be the engine of economic recovery, of poverty reduction and of a more environmentally sustainable future. Last year, over three million people around the world participated in events. To get involved this year,… Continue

Added by Business Fights Poverty on November 16, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Ida Horner Global Giving UK

Have you heard about Global Giving UK, a charity of charities? This is how the charity describes itself. GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to donate to well-vetted charity projects in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to tangibly see the impact of your giving. Projects on GlobalGiving.co.uk are screened to ensure they meet a genuine charitable purpose, in areas such as education, health, economic development and the envir… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on November 6, 2009 at 9:49am — No Comments

Ida Horner Global Giving UK

Have you heard about Global Giving UK, a charity of charities? This is how the charity describes itself. GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to donate to well-vetted charity projects in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to tangibly see the impact of your giving. Projects on GlobalGiving.co.uk are screened to ensure they meet a genuine charitable purpose, in areas such as education, health, economic development and the envir… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on November 6, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

Lars Stork Turning Challenges Into Opportunities - Part Two

Transformation Crisis management requires well thought through transformation and a fundamental re-thinking on how operators, local governments and vendors work together. Turning the effects of the global financial crisis into a positive might seem far fetched however if businesses take the actions required fast with a very structured approach and not treating the current crisis as yet another firefighting project or business as usual, ending up with fixes normally just scratching the surface.… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on July 31, 2009 at 5:43am — No Comments

Lars Stork Turning Challenges Into Opportunities - Part One

Financial crisis Telecoms operators and vendors doing business across Africa are entering unchartered terrain with this conjuncture of profound crises - the fallout from the financial crisis will be severe. People are being faced with a deep sense of insecurity; misery and hardship will increase for many poorer people everywhere. The movements will grow further as recession starts to bite and economies start sinking into depression. We need principles of transformation, perhaps more than at an… Continue

Added by Lars Stork on July 28, 2009 at 11:43pm — No Comments

Jim Thompson U.S. Secretary of State on Public Private Partnerships

On April 22, 2009 the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, gave the keynote speech at the Global Philanthropy Forum where she told the assembled crowd that the State Department's doors are open to a new generation of public private partnerships. The speech has people buzzing in Washington and around the world on partnerships at the Department of State. The Department is engaged in many differnt lines of work through our PPPs. We are building partnerships that promote democracy, huma… Continue

Added by Jim Thompson on April 29, 2009 at 3:10am — 1 Comment

Chris Jarvis Did Corporate Social Responsibility Cause the Financial Crisis?

Peter Foster, a columnist for a Canadian newspaper, the National Post, caught… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on January 30, 2009 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Chris Jarvis Corporate Social Responsibility Reports Now Required By Law

Should… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on January 9, 2009 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Business Fights Poverty Global Entrepreneurship Week: Unleashing Entrepreneurship

This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Lord Peter Mandelson have been advocating it vigorously in public. Here's a reflection from Business Fights Poverty member, Peter Heslam, entitled 'Unleashing Entrepreneurship', which was released at the start of the week to a large radio and online audience. Peter is also co-organizing… Continue

Added by Business Fights Poverty on November 20, 2008 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Final Call for applications for the GAIN Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition

GAIN Business Award Geneva, London (GAIN/IBLF) – As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the rising concern about food security and nutrition, we have extended the deadline for the GAIN Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition to give as many companies as possible the opportunity to participate. The new deadline for application has now been extended to 31 October 2008. The GAIN Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition, launched this year by the G… Continue

Added by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on September 22, 2008 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Business Fights Poverty 630 Companies Delisted from UN Global Compact

PRESS RELEASE: UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT (New York, 25 June 2008) – The United Nations Global Compact Office has announced that a total of 630 companies have been removed from its list of participants for failure to communicate progress. The delisting of companies is part of ongoing efforts by the UNGC Office to enhance the accountability and credibility of the initiative. The Integrity Measures were introduced in 2004 following a comprehensive review of the governance of the UN Global Com… Continue

Added by Business Fights Poverty on June 28, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Kristina How do we create good businesses in Africa? Inspire young entrepreneurs.

Africa's youth are the ones who will create the business that have strong civic ties. These youth entrepreneurs will not only create businesses which will fund projects aimed at eliminating poverty, they will create businesses that attack the challenge of poverty directly. Organizations like Top30Under30 are bringing African entrepreneurs to the fore and helping them connect with valuable business networks across the continent and beyond. Another great way of getting youth excited about entrepr… Continue

Added by Kristina on April 21, 2008 at 5:01pm — 2 Comments

Henk Campher Solving the changing African climate - Catch 22?

Yes, this whole week I was stuck in conferences telling me the world is going to burn in the next 50 to 100 years. And the rising oceans will act as a temporary cool-down - but then we will drown as they rise a bit too much. Bye-bye Manhattan. Bye-bye Cape Town. Bye-bye London. Depressing. Not really. As you all know I am a natural optimist. I know that we will find a solution. We’ll just first go through all the other bad options before we do the right thing. But I am still stuck on what we can… Continue

Added by Henk Campher on March 5, 2008 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

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