For-Purpose Business: Why do they do What they do?

06/02/2022

Food for Thought — an inclusive economy building:

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan
Department of Cottage and Small Industry - DCSI
Young Entrepreneurs Association of Bhutan
Royal Government of Bhutan

👍 Social Enterprise UK

Buy Social Europe, an initiative led by Social Enterprise UK, supports large companies – mainly multinationals – seeking to engage with social enterprises across Europe

01/02/2022

Paper-based pens to save the earth?

Jetstream series uses thinner-walled refills, eyes shift to paper

16/02/2020

Sustainable leather option for the world

A pair of young inventors from Mexico will unveil the very first organic leather made entirely from the nopal—or prickly-pear cactus this week—offering a sustainable, stylish, and eco-friendly alternative to leather. The two innovators, Adrian Lopez and Marte Cazarez, will be travelling from the...

26/08/2019

https://www.goodworkscowork.com/tips-for-women-entrepreneurs/

Coworking spaces conduct many networking events for the benefit of women entrepreneurs. As women, you can always leverage such incidents to your advantage.

29/10/2018

•Strategy
•Commercial and social goals
•Board composition

The three-legged steering of a social enterprise.

SVA’s incoming CEO, Suzie Riddell, asks Goodstart how, as a social enterprise, it balances its commercial and social goals; and what role influencing the system plays in achieving its purpose?

12/10/2018

Young People: more than half (52%) keen in the business (investment) that is socially conscious (impactful).

As more Millennials become investors, they may find a natural fit with impact investing

07/10/2018

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): a role it has in Social Entrepreneurship

Mountain Hazelnut Venture Limited (“Mountain Hazelnuts”) was founded with economic, social, and environmental objectives. It planned to distribute young hazelnut plants at no charge to a large number of subsistence farmers in Bhutan. The farmers would plant the trees in fallow or degraded land, ...

06/10/2018

‘The world has the MONEY, it’s the time how we unlock the very resource’ -UNGA 2018

“We must keep reinforcing multilateralism & advancing towards a life of dignity for all! Thanks to everyone from government leaders to global citizens who made this year’s possible. Here’s a peek behind the scenes at some of what we did together. https://t.co/ifVKJPv57v”

02/10/2018

Social Enterprises (a business that is built with the ambition to solve social problems) are on the rise in South Asia -nearly 2 million in India, and over 150,000 in Thailand and Bangladesh.

shares Somewhere between the invention of the microwave and the discovery of cheap labor, we lost our patience. We now have a burning need to cure a cold, today, and have dinner warmed in three minutes. Rather than allowing everything its organic time and process, we seek instant gratification. This...

26/09/2018

The world-leading British university is seeking to maximise the impact of its academic research on the world

25/09/2018

The recent 2018 Global Impact Report states-

“To drive individual and collective prosperity, Business needs a New Mindset for action.”

Deloitte is actively creating a new mindset for business, redefining what success looks like, challenging expectations, blurring boundaries and responsibilities, and setting an example for others to follow.