Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship is the use of the techniques by start up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs. These extraordinary people come up with brilliant ideas and against all the odds succeed at creating new products and services that dramatically improve people's lives.

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Mikaila Ulmer

Me & the Bees Lemonade was a sweet success from the start. Year-after-year, Mikaila, sells-out of her Me & the Bees Lemonade at youth entrepreneurial events while donating a percentage of the profits from the sale of her lemonade to local and international organizations fighting hard to save the honeybees. That is why she touts: Buy a Bottle…Save a Bee.
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Premal Shah

Premal's inspiration for Kiva came during a 2-month volunteer trip he took to India in 2004. During his trip he worked with low-income women to help them sell handcrafts online. While the project had mixed results, it strengthened his belief that the right combination of technology, business and love can create access to opportunity for those who need it most.
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Jessica Jackley

Jessica was first inspired to start Kiva in the spring of 2004, working in East Africa with rural entrepreneurs. She became deeply moved by their stories of success, and wanted to provide a way for her friends and family to participate in the next chapter of those stories.
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Hugh Evans

In 2008, Evans along with his friend Simon Moss, launched Global citizens (The Global Poverty Project), which is committed to ending extreme poverty by 2030, because of the collective actions of Global Citizens across the world. Through Global Citizen platform you can learn about issues, take action on what matters most and join a community committed to social change. Evans throws big awareness ca...
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Scott Harrison

Charity: Water is a non-profit organization that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. The organization was founded in 2006 and has helped fund 19,819 projects in 24 countries, benefiting over 6.1 million people.
Based in New York City, Charity: Water uses both mainstream and social media platforms to raise awareness, including annual galas and events arranged...
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Christine Keung

Keung made her first trip to Shaanxi Province, in Northwest China, in 2012, where she witnessed environmental pollution. She noticed, firsthand, haphazard dumping of used medical supplies and pesticides in the largest tributary of the Yellow River.
In 2014, a Fulbright scholarship gave Keung the opportunity to visit China for 10 months, where she became aware of the extent of China’s r...