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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Updated: 2 months ago
Muhammad Yunus was born in 28th June, 1940 in the village of Bathua, in
Hathazari, Chittagong, the business centre of what was then Eastern
Bengal. He was the third of 14 children of whom five ...
Areas: Poverty Alleviation, Microfinance, Microcredit, Social Entrepreneurship
Type: Other - Author: Muhammad Yunus
Type: Other - Author: Muhammad Yunus
Updated: 3 months ago
The Better World Handbookis the definitive
guide for the average person wanting to make a positive difference in
th...
Areas: Fair Trade, Gender Equality, Arms Trading, Rights and Equality of LGBT, Globalization Impacts, Socially Responsible Investment, Worker Rights, Living Wages, Peace and Peace Building, Petroleum in the Environment ...
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Updated: 4 months ago
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century
is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas
and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable,
prosperou...
Areas: Responsible Business Practices, Biodiversity Conservation, Indigenous Peoples and Cultures, Climate Change, Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education, Economic Development, Natural Capitalism ...
Type: Book - Author: Alex Steffen, Al Gore
Type: Book - Author: Alex Steffen, Al Gore
Updated: 4 months ago
This is to be a place to list funding sources from this discussion: Sources of Social Venture Funding
Feel free t...
Updated: 4 months ago
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Updated: 4 months ago
Social Innovation Conversations is podcast channel focused on multidisciplinary learning for social change.
From the pandemic of AIDS, to challenges posed by climate change, to substance abuse and...
Updated: 4 months ago
For more than 50 years, the World Bank, donor nations, various aid agencies, national governments, and lately, civil society organizations have all fought the good fight but have not eradicated pov...
Type: Book - Author: C. K. Prahalad
Updated: 4 months ago
A brand new book from the board chair of Yes! magazine. The full title of
the book is Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real
Wealth. Korten's goal is to change the stories we tell o...
Areas: Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Finance Policies and Institutions, Fiscal Policies, Institutions and Taxation, Green Banking and Insurance, Microcredit, Microfinance, Natural Capitalism, Socially Responsible Investment, Social Entrepreneurship ...
Type: Book - Author: David Korten
Type: Book - Author: David Korten
Updated: 5 months ago
From Publishers WeeklyWhat does it mean to be a socially responsible company? As Arena (Cause for Success) points out, the matter is up for debate, with some environmentalists criticizing corporate...
Updated: 5 months ago
(A rising threat as the high tide of privatisation ebbs: linking water to microcredit. Below, an excerpt from a paper I did that's very critical of Yunus ultraneoliberal philosophy.)Yunus unveils B...
Country: Bangladesh
Areas: Water Quality and Health, Environmental Justice, Green Banking and Insurance, Microfinance, Microcredit, Sustainable Agriculture, Poverty Alleviation, Urban Communications, International Debt, Climate Justice ...Type: White Paper - Author: Patrick Bond