Yunus Social Business

22/02/2021

Are you part of the new generation of business? Are you an Unusual Pioneer?
Join the next Unusual Pioneers event from Yunus Social Business and The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Featuring the social intrapreneur, Salah Goss, Senior Vice President, Global Markets Humanitarian & Development at Mastercard and Gabriela Gandel, Chief Executive Director at Impact Hub. The Unusual Pioneers Talks event series showcases corporate social intrapreneurs and executives who are working on transforming corporations for the better. Moderated by François Bonnici, Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Daniel Nowack, Managing Director, Yunus Social Business.

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Are you part of the new generation of business? Are you an Unusual Pioneer? For the next Unusual Pioneers Talks event we are talking to Salah Goss, Senior Vice President, Global Markets Humanitarian & Development at Mastercard about changing mindsets. Find out more about her journey. How do you gain...

17/09/2020

CALLING KENYA. We are looking for social businesses in Kenya seeking to improve their resilience and scale their social impact.

The Investment Readiness Programme 20/21 is open for applications! The programme includes a 5-week boot camp and ongoing tailored support and mentoring to get your business where it needs to be. And guess what - the cost is all on us. Get your application in quick, the deadline is 30th September.

Are you connected with a social business in Kenya? Tag them in a comment! 🔗

For social businesses in Kenya seeking to improve their resilience and scale their social impact.

06/05/2020

Pioneers Post coverage on , co-initiated by World Economic Forum and Yunus Social Business:

"François Bonnici, head of the Schwab Foundation, said social entrepreneurs and their partners had been “working for years to solve market failures and demonstrate more sustainable and inclusive models”, but that they now faced “bankruptcy and severe constraints while they also innovate and respond to this global pandemic”. The new alliance, he added, was “committing support for social entrepreneurs to protect decades of work in the impact sector.”"

24/04/2020

It’s the small stories of solidarity that are getting us through this Friday! Waste Ventures India are one of our portfolio companies, they recycle plastic and improve the lives of waste pickers. ♳

The abrupt pause to their activities has made their ability to pay their workforce much more difficult. However, the waste picker communities they work with are facing an even graver challenge of survival where they are struggling to earn enough to eat.

To ease their plight, Waste Ventures partnered with residents and donors from across the world to provide a meal per day for their waste pickers until the lockdown is lifted. Waste pickers are often migrant workers and with the lockdown measures, many returned to their villages, those left are keeping the city clean. As migrants, they fall through the cracks of govt. benefit schemes which means Waste Ventures' intervention is even more vital. 🍚

These have been difficult times for our portfolio companies, but there are some fantastic stories of solidarity surfacing. Waste Ventures are doing amazing work to feed the waste pickers they support.

23/04/2020

With these resources, we aim to both inspire corporate leaders racing to build new solutions while safeguarding and accelerating existing social entrepreneurs! https://www.yunussb.com/covid

22/04/2020

Just imagine if the all the smartest, most entrepreneurial brains went into solving the world's greatest challenges?
Our Managing Director Daniel Nowack talks the future of business we NEED at TEDxFrankfurt

Industry 4.0, climate change, pollution and social problems. How can you combine these factors to save the world? Daniel Nowack provides an insight into his ...

20/04/2020

Calling Kampala! Yunus Social Business Uganda is looking for an Investment & Portfolio Associate, focusing on Agribusiness on a consultancy basis. The major focus of the role is to build up a pipeline of strong deals, especially in the agribusiness sector and prepare the social businesses to become investment-ready.

Link here: https://www.yunussb.com/portfolio-associate-uganda