Ashoka Switzerland Ashoka Switzerland started with work in 2007, at the beginning with the Venture program (Fellowship) and selection of the most prominent social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). During ten years in Switzerland, Ashoka was supporting not only the Fellows but also the other social entrepreneurs in the country through different projects (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). For now, Ashoka Switzerland has elected thirteen Fellows in Switzerland, and ten of them are still active (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). Human rights, education, health and work rights are some of the topics supported by the Swiss fellows. In addition to Fellows elected in Switzerland, the organization supports fifteen more Fellows who expanded …show more content…
Close to twenty persons support Ashoka in Switzerland in that manner and they take care about the development and the strategy of the organization in Switzerland (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017c). Ashoka Switzerland leads several projects since the beginning of the work in Switzerland. In 2012, Ashoka started the Impact program that was helping the development of the social entrepreneurs in Switzerland (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). In 2015 this was continued with Swiss Changemakers created to help more leading social entrepreneurs that have been ready to scale up their ideas (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). Then, in 2016 together with UBS, Ashoka launched the project UBS Social Innovators that selected and supported social enterprises in Switzerland (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). Ashoka Switzerland is a part of Making More Health program started in 2010, Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim global project with the aim to support social entrepreneurs to improve access to healthcare (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). This project supported for now 80 Ashoka Fellows (Ashoka Switzerland, …show more content…
For now, 52 entrepreneurs have been supported by this program (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). Since 2014, Ashoka Switzerland cooperates with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and organizations Hystra and New Ventures in order to identify, promote and support social entrepreneurs in Central and Latin America from access to finance to support in scaling up and replication of their ideas (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). This program included 72 social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). The plan of the organization is to replicate this project in Africa. Since 2016 Ashoka and J.P. Morgan, with the support of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation started the implementation of “Experiencing Social Entrepreneurship” online mentoring program where J.P. Morgan employees share their skills and insights with social entrepreneurs from the Ashoka network to solve specific challenges within their social enterprise (Ashoka Switzerland, 2017). During the same year the organization started partnership with HEG Fribourg on the Co-creation project to contribute to the development of co-creation between the business sector and social entrepreneurs in Switzerland (Ashoka Switzerland,
Corporate responsibility of Kathmandu would be to understand all the aspects of learning organisation and apply it to into their own. Its undoubtedly good brand in NZ, Australia and UK market but it has to work more to produce new products to mark their presence for long in near future. It should set an example for other business as a
In the book, Half The Sky, author’s Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to light the oppression of women in the developing world. Anecdotal stories, filled with sadness, anger and hope, collected after years of reporting, depict just a few examples of this global struggle for women. At the end of their book organizations are listed, in alphabetical order, in hopes of creating a starting point for people to further support women in developing countries. With so many organization doing great work to empower women it becomes difficult to decide where money should be distributed. As a grant manager it is important to take a closer look at each of the organizations and their work to better assess where the money should go. However, the
This group was founded by a young 22 years old Nepali undergraduate who came to the United States for his graduation. But just in a matter of time, he was able to unite some other people of his origin and his group gained massive recognition throughout the country. Today its network has expanded to the whole United States and is able to connect people of same cultural background together and help each other through their struggle in a foreign country.
So far the foundation has given over £3.5m to a series of charities in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The aim of the foundation to help people get access to the healthcare, education, micro-finance and agricultural support with the intention to help people grow themselves and their families out of poverty.
In the present market economy, social innovation should not replace Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but should enhance it. Some scholars have shown that whereas innovation has been an integral part of a company’s survival it was not part of CSR (Carroll and Shabana, 2010). In the past, CSR was applied in areas of citizenship duties and operation licences; however, this is not sufficient in the modern complex business environment (Googins, 2013).
Case 4 refers to a small Brazilian startup company which focus its activities in research and development of new processes and products based on green and renewable materials. The company has four main acting lines: 1) development of new third generation ethanol production processes; 2) development of herbal drugs and cosmetics; 3) technical analyses and reports about heavy metals contamination; 4) biochemical analysis in general. One special aspect of the company's vision is the social view. The owners are committed to drive the projects in direction of sharing and offering technology to poor communities as a form to improve the life condition of them. This social driven strategy is known as directed
This paper reveals the strategies that have been used by SIA, with backgrounds on their sustainability and sources of advantage, the way these strategies changed over the years and how to continue.
According to different scholars we can also define social enterprises as the idea of “seeking business solutions to social problems” (Thompson and Doherty 2006a, p. 362) or as the “use of business acumen to address social goals” (Crofts et al. 2003).
Another figure in the social business movement is MD. Tarifur Rahman Khan. He states that many countries suffer from various social problems and that a social business model is more effective for solving various social problems. The social business model mainly works for solving existing problems of the society under the business structure (Khan, 2014).
...es for more than 40 millions people in the poorest areas in India. They reflect the company’s value and raise the voice of the company in India.
Two entrepreneurial approaches I will reflect upon are profit-oriented and social-oriented entrepreneurs. I will describe these approaches through two entrepreneurs, Victor Kiam and Anita Roddick. Victor Kiam was what one would call a profit entrepreneur. This is “a person who seeks a profitable opportunity and takes the necessary risks to set up and operate a business (Boone, Kurtz, 2011, pg.182). Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, was a social-oriented entrepreneur. These types of entrepreneurs are “pioneers of innovations that benefit humanity” (Boone, Kurtz, 2011, pg.185). Social entrepreneurs not only want to profit from their business but also have an interest in helping society.
My experience at the Center for Social Innovation(CSI) or Fordham Foundry was underwhelming due to the lack of experienced people who were able to assist me. Being that I was unable to speak with the professor, I spoke with Anthony Parente and Enzo Obeso, two up and coming entrepreneurs who made their best efforts to inform me on what takes place at the Fordham Foundry.
The author of this book, David Bornstein is a journalist and a writer whose numerous works and specialties have revolved around the theme of social innovation. In his book, “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New”,, Bornstein address two major social themes or hypothesis one of them being the notion that social entrepreneurs profoundly impact the society in their role or services of corrective function. Secondly, Bornstein argues that the presence of social entrepreneurs in the world today is on the rise, and so is their impact on society. He talks about how one single person can change the world.
The business orientation of a social entrepreneur is that it seeks to change the world’s big
Through Sankalp, we provided employees a platform with multiple volunteering opportunities on various social issues. Many of these are in the cities easily accessible. We also encouraged employees to involve their families and thus started the self actualization process.”