As we’ve previously reported about in the enorm blog, every year Echoing Green provides funding for social entrepreneurs with the goal to launch groundbreaking organizations across the globe. In an attempt to research trends in the social entrepreneurship field, for the last for years Echoing Green has carried out a survey of the three hundred [...]

Some people have too many computers – others have none. This was the basis for Oso Martin’s idea to create FreeGeek, an organization in Portland, Oregon which repairs and recycles old computers. The worker’s collective, which relies almost exclusively on self-generated funds, has two goals: providing computers for those in their community who cannot afford [...]

Echoing Green are hardly newcomers on the social business scene. Founded more than twenty years ago, their mission is to fund and support social entrepreneurs with some of the world’s boldest ideas for social change. Echoing Green believe that social entrepreneurs are the catalysts for societal change,

The Social Business Tour 2010 is underway. This joint initiative of ERSTE Foundation , Erste Group , good.bee , The Grameen Creative Lab and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Republic of Austria, was kicked off with the Social Business Days, during the 11th -12th of May. Location was the very [...]

When discussing Social Business, it is hard to avoid mentioning NobelPrize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Although new Social Business networks and projects constantly appear without involvement from the Grameen Bank founder, his idea of lending microcredits to the penniless has certainly laid the foundation for this new way of business. FT.com recently published an interesting article [...]