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Global Entrepreneurship Week in November saw the championing of enterprise by the government and the private sector. The week also featured Social Enterprise Day, to celebrate the 70,000-strong businesses in the UK that call themselves social enterprises. Startups in this sector are thriving in the UK, realising that integral to the success of the business is profit.
The Crunch, a social enterprise accelerator program in Australia, has announced 15 startups that will join The Crunch Round 4 beginning February 2014. Operated by Social Traders, a Melbourne-based nonprofit founded in 2008 to help establish commercially viable social enterprises throughout Australia, the program has received over 80 applications - up 100 percent from the previous round.
Rather than tightly controlled industrial scale projects, in the developing world at least, some of the more interesting, impactful healthcare innovations are coming from lone innovators working at the "long tail" of problems. Not only are few multinationals present in these developing markets, many just don't understand them - or even worse they don't understand why they need to be in them.
Social innovation, in the Chinese context, reflects in three areas: government innovation, party innovation, and social innovation. The first two are the main battle fields but they will need a certain amount of time. Social innovation is currently in good development timing with philanthropy and charity field as the best breakthrough point.
With regular algorithm updates and new factors influencing search all the time, search engine optimization is a bit of a moving target these days. Add in the level of nuance that tends to surround search rank and you've created a perfect storm for misunderstanding and misattribution.
In celebration of UN-recognized International Human Rights Day on December 10 th, nonprofit organizations Tostan and Venice Arts, together with the Sundance Institute and The Skoll Foundation, premiere a series of participant-produced films from community members in Senegal.
What do a first date, a job interview, a home showing, and your website all have in common? It's not a trick question, nor is it tricky. If you think for a few seconds, the term "first impressions" will come to mind, I'm sure. I see the light bulb turning on right now.
Since we teach social entrepreneurship and nonprofit tech, we naturally try and spread the word on our Twitter account @giipucsc by sharing lots of articles. We tweet about a dozen links each day to hashtags like #SocialEnterprise #SocEnt #Nonprofit # NPtech and #SM4SG.
Imagine this: You run a small- to mid-sized nonprofit, and you're about to close out your year. It's well into the middle of the month of December, and things have gone really well. You're in the midst of your most successful campaign ever, and this year you've grown your constituency by twofold.
Global Entrepreneurship Week in November saw the championing of enterprise by the government and the private sector. The week also featured Social Enterprise Day, to celebrate the 70,000-strong businesses in the UK that call themselves social enterprises. Startups in this sector are thriving in the UK, realising that integral to the success of the business is profit.
News & Articles > Jackpot: Stuttering Foundation Receives 200 Mega Millions Tickets Zach Halper - December 13, 2013 How would you react if you had 200 chances to win $425 million? The chances are it would be quite similar to what the employees at the Stuttering Foundation of America (SFA) are feeling: Excitement and anxiety.
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