Today’s featured article is a guest post by Rosedel Davies-Adewebi, Invest Africa As an avid supporter of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, I have closely followed the economic renaissance many African countries have been experiencing over the last 5 years. According to The Economist, “Africa’s economies are consistently growing faster than those of any other region in [...]
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Apply to Goldman Sachs-GIBS 10,000 Women Certificate Programme for Women Entrepreneurs
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg, South Africa is recruiting the second cohort for The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative. The deadline to apply to this programme is 15 June 2012. The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women is a five-year initiative to provide a business and management education to underserved female [...]
“Be Fearless, Be Intentional in our approach to social challenges.”
“Be Fearless, Be Intentional in our approach to social challenges. This country and the world are crying out for innovation.” This was the advice Jean Case, CEO of Case Foundation, had for businesses and nonprofit partners to create social change and overcome challenges while at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center [...]
IBM Smarter Cities Challenge – Africa Winners – Accra, Nairobi, Rabat and Tshwane
Our hearty congratulations to four African cities who are recipients of 2012 IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant award. Accra, Ghana; Nairobi, Kenya; Rabat, Morocco and Tshwane, South Africa are among the 33 cities that were selected for this initiative. Launched in 2011, this three-year, 100-city $50 million program—IBM’s single-largest philanthropic initiative— funds top IBM executives [...]
‘Businesses should lead progress towards long-term societal well-being’ – Part Two of ICPD series
In part two of our series on International Corporate Philanthropy Day (ICPD) led by Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy we explore the opportunities, challenges and commitments that arise out of a top-level executive management conference that could benefit organizations around the globe. In Part I of the series, we discussed the event A Billion + Change: [...]
