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It is our continuing effort in Tomorrow's Company to encourage discussion about promoting sustainability not only externally but within an organisation as well. We would argue that a business ideal which focuses on creating an inclusive environment for communities that could be otherwise marginalised serves to exemplify a force for good.

This forum welcomes discussion about social business models and entrepreneurship - the ideas of which has gained considerable visibility and momentum after Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s and Grameen’s Noble Prize win. forceforgood.com seeks to converse about and provide new emerging definitions, models and examples.

Across Europe since the launch of the Dr Yunus book "Creating a world without poverty- Social Business, Future of Capitalism" the President of France responded by asking HEC business school to offer the first SMBA and chair of Social Business. Three leading French businesses Danone, Veolia and Credit Agricole have already formed Future Capitalism test market partnerships with Grameen's 25000 intrapreneurs. The UK Prime Minister welcomed the transparency of Yunus microeconomics and goodwill networking. We welcome responses from UK business and society in particular, and Europe-wide.

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posted by Aditi  on September 11, 2008
 Social Business and Social enterprise examples from around the world - Divine Chocolate.Bringing together cocoa farmers in Ghana to consumers in Europe and North America in an effort to promote healthy, sustainable, fair and value based enterprise, Divine is definitely a force for good.
     

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Social Business

Region(s): North America , West Europe , Africa , East Europe & Former Soviet Union

Tag(s): SocialBusiness
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posted by Jules  on November 13, 2008
In a new Wiki Book (www.citizenrenaissance.com), authors Robert Phillips and Jules Peck explore the potential of a new Tripartite Contract between Business, Politics and Citizenship; a Contract built and conducted in the spirit of openness, transparency and real engagement; one designed to deliver the common good and safeguard the future of the planet.
     

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Embedding Values , Social Business

Tag(s): FutureSociety , OnLineBooks
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posted by Admin  on May 22, 2009
The business model of the future rests on an alliance between economics and humanism. Social entrepreneurs and visionary business leaders are showing us how to do good
     

Issue(s): Corporate Social Responsibility , Social Business

Region(s): South Asia

Tag(s): NewBusinessModels , SocialEntrepreneurship , Yunus
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posted by Admin  on June 4, 2009
Our two main recommendations are to reword and extend the Combined Code so that it truly encompasses the responsibilities of investors alongside those of boards and better reflects cultures, values and behaviours in the assessment of risk and allocation of rewards 
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability , Social Business , Global Financial Crisis , Responsible Investment

Region(s): North America , West Europe

Tag(s): Remuneration , Stewardship , Sustainability , Values
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posted by Admin  on October 20, 2009
Marking the 20th Anniversary of SRI in the Rockies offers more than an opportunity to review the hard-won progress of investors to prove that socially responsible investing is viable and now clearly out-performs traditional mainstream investing.  Since the credit crises of 2008-2009, we can now assert with confidence that investing for long-term sustainability and taking ESG factors as material to asset valuation could have actually helped avert these crises.   We investors are now winning the paradigm battle and cite the evidence to show that the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is bunk and by the same token show that the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and, yes, even the sacred tenets of the "rational investor" and the Black-Scholes Merton Options Pricing Model all are part of history.
     

Issue(s): Sustainability , Social Business , Responsible Investment

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): climate change , credit crunch , ethical markets , Socially responsible investing , sustainability

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Social Business- Anurita Saxena, ISBS08-10 Pune
Social Business
Social business is a cause-driven business. In a social business, the investors/owners can gradually recoup the money invested, but cannot take any dividend beyond that point. Purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the company; the investors desire no personal gain.
CharityVillage.com is a resource website for people involved in Canada's nonprofit sector. CharityVillage.com was founded by Doug Jamieson and Jim Hilborn. The site launched on July 13, 1995 with about 100 pages of content. One of the earliest websites to focus on servicing the nonprofit sector, CharityVillage.com quickly became a resource hub for the thousands of people involved in the sector across Canada.
Drishtee is an India based business that provides information technology goods and services to rural India through village kiosks that are run and managed by local entrepreneurs. These kiosks are developed using a franchise and partnership model.
Some of the services provided by Drishtee include computer education, English courses, rural BPO, government services, health, insurance, e-commerce, microfinance etc. Through its low cost, direct delivery network of over 2,400 kiosks, Drishtee has impacted the lives of over 1.5 Million people in rural India. One of Drishtee's primary objectives is to empower rural communities by supporting local entrepreneurship and thus helping to stem the distress migration of people from rural to urban parts of the country. The organization was founded in 2000 and is currently led by its co-founder and Managing Director - Mr. Satyan Mishra.
Free The Children is a children's charity founded in 1995 by children's rights advocate Craig Kielburger. The organization is largely youth-funded, specializing in sustainable development in six marginalized countries: Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Ecuador, Sierra Leone and China. Free The Children currently implements its Adopt a Village development model in rural communities in six countries: China, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Sierra Leone, India and Ecuador. Adopt a Village is made up of four components: education, health care, alternative income, and clean water and sanitation. Among other projects, Adopt a Village builds schools and water wells, and provides medical treatment and income sources to the developing regions. These projects are designed to address the root causes of poverty and remove the barriers to children’s education in the developing world.
Hence it can be safely concluded that social Business is building the backbone of the society and exemplifying how business can be made society-oriented and for everyone’s good which is an extremely noble work to take up in the profit and selfish driven world.
Posted By : anurita Saxena
Posted on : November 19, 2009
Can a Supremarket be a Future Capitalist
Arguably, America's most successful Supermarketer WholeFoods intends to be. At http;//wholeplanetfoundation.com it weaves: microcredit, fair trade, employees energised to change the world and governance (led by CEO John Mackey) that intends to shake up the food sector until you know what you eat and its costs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm5iJSjfjQ
Posted By : Chris Macrae
Posted on : September 12, 2008

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