John Kelly

Share Proudly! Reports: A Social Entrepreneurship News Digest (1.4)

Posted on 05 July 2008 by John Kelly

1. Microsoft, ABAN Partner to Promote Middle Eastern Entrepreneurs In an effort to foster self-employment, job creation, social opportunity, economic diversification, and entrepreneurial and technological innovation in the Middle East and North Africa, global tech giant Microsoft partnered with the Arab Business Angels Network (ABAN) in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Microsoft, through its [...] Continue Reading

Share Proudly! Spotlights: Notable Social Entrepreneurs, Honorable Mentions

Posted on 05 July 2008 by John Kelly

Share Proudly! will soon be shining its spotlight on the winners of two awards to be announced later this year: In conjunction with the news organization Irish Independent and Enterprise Ireland, a government agency for indigenous business, Ireland’s Ulster Bank Corporate Markets is seeking nominations for its 15th annual Business Achievers Awards. Beginning with provincial rewards [...] Continue Reading

Fifth Annual Tremblant Forum to Discuss Strategic Philanthropy

Posted on 05 July 2008 by John Kelly

NATIONAL Public Relations, one of the world’s leading communications firms in corporate responsibility, is organizing the fifth annual Tremblant Forum on corporate responsibility and sustainability in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada on September 16 and 17, 2008. Heralding this year’s theme of “Looking Forward, Giving Back,” the forum will assemble over one hundred businesspersons and non-profit [...] Continue Reading

Share Proudly! Spotlights: Honorable Mentions, Notable Social Entrepreneurs

Posted on 17 June 2008 by John Kelly

The Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has awarded Filipina Ma. Cecilia Flores Oebanda for her devoted activism against human trafficking and child labor. Known as Nanay Day to the women and children she has helped, Oebanda is the first Asian to win the Skoll award, which also recognizes the Visayan Forum (VF), where she serves [...] Continue Reading

Everyday Heroes, Extraordinary Social Entrepreneurs

Posted on 17 June 2008 by John Kelly

Rags2Riches: Interweaving High-End Fashion, Justice, and Social Entrepreneurship A group of young professionals and alumni of the Philippines’ Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle University wove together the social enterprise Rags2Riches after they witnessed injustice in the Payatas region in the Philippines’ capital, Manila. Not only did the group discover Payatas mothers crafting beautiful [...] Continue Reading

Share Proudly! Reports

Posted on 17 June 2008 by John Kelly

Social Entrepreneurs Bemoan UK Financial Woes Research by the social networking site and foundation for social entrepreneurship, www.UnLtdWorld.com, has found that the credit crunch in the United Kingdom is hitting small business owners and social entrepreneurs hard. Out of 984 individuals who participated in the UK study, 40% reported they are experiencing cash flow problems, 21% [...] Continue Reading

Share Proudly! Reports: A Social Entrepreneurship News Digest (1.3)

Posted on 17 June 2008 by John Kelly

1. Intel and Grameen Trust Join Forces to Get World’s Poor Online Dr. Muhammad Yunus—2006 Nobel Prize winner, founder of the Grameen Trust, and progenitor of microcredit—will join forces with Intel Chairman Craig Barrett in a venture to provide information and communications technology (ICT) and microcredit services to the world’s poor. With Intel contributing its technological [...] Continue Reading

Share Proudly! Spotlights: Notable Social Entrepreneurs, Honorable Mentions

Posted on 17 June 2008 by John Kelly

1. Major Retailers Haloed with Awards The Cause Marketing Forum issues the Halo Awards each year to the best campaigns and communications between for-profit businesses and the non-profit social causes they support. A majority of 2008’s 16 Halo Awards recognized major US retailers. Target garnered the Best Campaign Print Creative award for its “Gifts for [...] Continue Reading

Social Entrepreneurship for the Next Generation

Posted on 25 May 2008 by John Kelly

Founder of the non-profit Africa Global Partnership, Inc., and lifelong activist for a better Africa, Paul Rudatsikira is hosting “Social Entrepreneurship for the Next Generation,” a conference in Rwanda that will bring together 100 Rwandan college and high school students for five days and 12 workshops to equip the young adults with the abilities to [...] Continue Reading

The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada holds a Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camp

Posted on 25 May 2008 by John Kelly

The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada mustered troops for a social entrepreneurship “boot camp” from May 12-14 at the university’s Laurel Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Limited to 30 participants, the boot camp drilled students and community-group members in business planning, marketing and branding, legal concerns, finding sponsors, and working with granting organizations—all in the [...] Continue Reading

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