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Travel the world and change lives Ever dreamt of seeing the world – expenses paid? Well here’s your chance. If you see yourself as an enterprising individual who would like to travel the world and help out in local communities, Your Big Year, could be just what you’re looking for. Your Big Year is a free competition to...

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From Kolkata, India. Terra Indica is a social business selling design products, especially wooden sculptures and furniture. It is a « social business » according to Yunus definition, as all the profit is reinvested in the company in order to increase its social impact. The aim ? Insertion by work of youngsters from the streets of Kolkata. Arman is famous...

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Muhammad Yunus, Building Social Business, 2010 After his best-sellers Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus brings a new contribution to the social business concept with his latest book Building Social Business. Professor of Economics, founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Yunus is regarded as the Founding...

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1. RangDe RangDe is a peer-to-peer web based portal where you can lend (not donate) money to the needy, starting Rs. 100! A brilliant concept. Join over 2000 fans here! 2.Eko Aspire Foundation works on the fundamental premise of giving everyone a bank account.They reach the deepest strands of the society via mobile technology....

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ATMs – Automatic Teller Machines turned the conventional procedural banking, upside down after their advent nearly a decade ago in India. Queues disappeared and so did the haggling one had to incur in getting cash after office hours. The added security of not carrying cash now provided seamless access to cash; 24×7x365. While the phenomenon...

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Here comes the first post of Socialter series on entrepreneurship in India. Publishing every friday from now on, I will give my thoughts on why is it so different to be an entrepreneur in India. This thoughts will come from my meetings with Indian and foreign entrepreneurs in India, my ...

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From São Paulo. March 2010. Read the article in French, Spanish, Portuguese. The idea? A small-scaled market. The idea is to recreate a closed local economy to reintegrate people in need. How does it work? This « market » is based on barter: Every member comes with an object (old clothes, CDs …) and exchanges it for a few coins of alternative...

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