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9th May 2009

One man injects safety into health centers

[Article Source : Business Standard]> Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K...

8th Apr 2009

Indian participants in the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator

India is represented strong in the list of participants from the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator, which is a program led by SocialEdge and Santa Clara University that “assists social benefit entr...

Think Change India

7th Jan 2009

Hybrid Business Models

The hybrid business model (nonprofit with a profit-earning arm) is a central figure as a certain type of social enterprise, and is a topic of discussion by SocialEdge and books such as “The Power of U...

8th Aug 2008

Measuring Impact — The billion person question

A post on Nextbilliion.net today announced that the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) just launched a new framework to measure social impact of a business or organization. Whi...

7th May 2008

Maximizing efficiency in Microfinance: Interview with Equitas founder

The Hindu just published a great interview with Mr P.N. Vasudevan of Equitas Micro Finance, a start-up MFI based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Vasudevan is an interesting entrepreneur, having spent 20 years...

2nd Apr 2008

Remote Blogging: Skoll World Forum 2008 — Review of Panel on Corporate Partnerships

The Strategic Partnerships Between Multinational Corporations and Social Entrepreneurs used the metaphor “dancing with elephants” as the overarching theme for discussion. SustainAbility’ s Maggie Bren...

1st Apr 2008

Remote Blogging: Skoll Forum 2008 - Measuring Impact

Impact assessment, performance metrics, social impact – these terms are gaining increasing traction in the social entrepreneurship sector, specifically in the context of sustainability and effectivene...

1st Apr 2008

Remote Blogging: Skoll World Forum 2008 - Replication and Scale

At the recent Skoll World Forum, the Berkeley Bottom Line bloggers covered Dr. Paul Farmer‘s speech following the Replication and Scale session. Diverging from discussions of business models and finan...

1st Apr 2008

Remote Blogging: Skoll World Forum 2008 — What is the role of government?

In the Innovation and Change in Government Culture workshop, one of the major themes was which problems or issues should government address and which should they ignore or stay away from. This is a ve...

29th Mar 2008

Remote Blogging: Skoll World Forum 2008 — Points of Interest from Opening Plenary

Phil Hope, the Minister of the Third Sector in the UK spoke about the creating of a social stock exchange and its ability to promote transparency in the global social entrepreneurship field.Karen Tse,...

27th Mar 2008

Joe Madiath, Founder of Gram Vikas speaks on Human Dignity and Development

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchLdAwuxqQ]The Social Edge Blog interviews ED Joe Madiath of Gram Vikas, about his vision for 2017. He speaks of creating a world rooted in human dignity....

26th Mar 2008

2008 Skoll World Forum Starts Today

This looks like to be a very exciting event, and while it is too late to attend in person, Skoll has hired the help of livebloggers for the entirety of the conference. Go here for live updates. ThinkC...