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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 November 13, 2009

Qualitative Growth by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson has been published by Tomorrow’s Company with the ICAEW.  This paper not only builds on our mission to understand better business success and how it can best be achieved, but also sets this in what Tomorrow's Company describe as the triple context: that sustainable value creation will be rooted in harnessing the full opportunity of recognising the links between the economic, social and environmental sub-systems on which we all depend for our lives and prosperity. Although sustainability is a growing issue, it is not well understood. As the subject is prioritised by business, governments and civil society, the need to clarify how to do it, how to measure and report on it and how to assure sustainability information become key issues. In the ICAEW landmark publication Sustainability: the role of accountants the ICAEW argued that these areas of expertise – building and managing flows of valuable, reliable and trusted information...
     
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posted by Admin  on December 8, 2009

Investment figures on Renewable Energies, Construction field, CleanTech since 2007. Figueres have exceeded 1.2 trillion US $ in the past 2 years.
     
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posted by Admin  on December 10, 2009

Carsten Ingerslev, Head of Division, The Danish Government Centre for CSR Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, presentation at Tomorrow's Company launch event 'Beyond Accounting'.
     
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posted by Admin  on January 14, 2010

Foreword to a soft launch of the project and a discussion paper authored by Graham Hubbard of Adelaide University on www.forceforgood.com and www.icaew.com  
     

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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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