The only fair trade factory in Africa is saving lives while bringing business to Africa, the new continent for outsourced savings. Chid Liberty, the co-founder with Adam Butlein, of the first fair trade factory in Africa, shares the success of…
Social Entrepreneurship Brings Sanitation to Urban Slums in Extreme Poverty
David Auerbach from Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya that has been identified and supported by Eleos Foundation, has grown into an opportunity for impact investors. Saner.gy builds sustainable sanitation in the urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. So you…
Vote Today to Address Healthcare and Safe Water for India’s Extreme Poverty.
Jim Villnueava of The Eleos Foundation shares how you can help save the lives of millions in India by voting for Healthpoint’s virtual medical clinics and safe water. Healthpoint is a virtual medical clinic that consists of four economically sustainable…
Impact Investing Challenge: Rural Electrification Renewable Energy
The Stanford team of social entrepreneurs who recently won the International Impact Investing Challenge with a project to expand the electrical grid in Indonesia to rural areas, a country with 18,000 islands. Worldwide, 1.3 billion people are without electricity, 84%…
Social Entrepreneurship: The International Impact Investing Challenge.
Hear about the International Impact Investing Challenge, the finalist social entrepreneurs and their projects. The founder and Director of the International Impact Investing Challenge, Jamie N. Jones, shares the background and results of this exceptional competition focused on social entrepreneurship…
Liberian Women for Peace and Social Entrepreneurs Build West African Economy
Chid Liberty, co-founder of the first Fair Trade factory in Africa, shares the impact social entrepreneurship has made on Western Africa’s economy. Liberia has been a country torn by civil war until a group of women for peace ended it…
Social Impact Measurement: Cloud Technology Solutions
The ability to track and measure social impact is critical as social impact investing grows in its ability to compete with traditional investments. App-X, a B-Corporation in Colorado, has developed two cloud-computing solutions, PULSE and AIM, to help track criteria,…
