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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 Admin  on February 25, 2010
This is the contents page for the Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents. You can use the links below to reach the various Documents stored on forceforgood.com. The Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents are intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to a particular topic. Please get in touch if you have any ideas for further briefings at admin@forceforgood.com.
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Climate Change , Why we need Force for Good companies , Sustainability , Social Business , The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity , Tomorrow's Green Economy , Low Carbon Economy

Region(s): North America , West Europe

Tag(s): TomorrowsCompanyBriefingDocuments
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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 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 Admin  on December 8, 2009
Press Release.- Washington, DC – December  4, 2009 – Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and The Climate Prosperity Alliance today launched their Global Climate Prosperity Scoreboard® which tracks private investment in companies growing the green economy globally.  This new, never before reported number, showing $1,248,740,645,993.00 (over $1.248 trillion) in total investment since 2007, indicates how investors and entrepreneurs are leading governments in promoting sustainable growth.  The scoreboard totals investments in solar, wind, geothermal, ocean/hydro, energy efficiency and storage, and agriculture.  We purposefully omitted nuclear, "clean coal," carbon capture and sequestration, and biofuels.  We indicate which investments have been publically announced and committed by major companies for 2010 and beyond.
     

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , Climate Change , Sustainability , Social Business , Tomorrow's Green Economy , Responsible Investment , Low Carbon Economy

Tag(s): GreenEconomy , Responsible Investing , sustainable growth
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posted by Cyndi  on November 12, 2009
Signs of a new era in economics emerge, bringing hope for real and systemic change. 
     

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , Climate Change , Tomorrow's Global Leaders , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability , Social Business , Global Financial Crisis , The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity , Tomorrow's Green Economy , Low Carbon Economy , Tomorrow's Corporate Governance

Region(s): North America , Central America , South America , Caribbean , West Europe , Africa , East Europe & Former Soviet Union , Middle East , South Asia , East Asia , Southeast Asia , Australia and South Pacific

Tag(s): hazel henderson , new economy , qualitative growth , 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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