£3m funds to boost youth employment
This is Scotland: Funding worth £3 million which could help some 2,000 young people find work has been announced by the Scottish Government.
Sheffield Renewables launch share offer scheme
A social enterprise group, committed to improving Sheffield's environmental sustainability, has launched a share offer scheme to help support their renewable energy projects.
Banking: Co-operatives would contribute to further diversification
The Malta Independent Online: A co-operative bank in Malta would certainly contribute to the further diversification of the Maltese banking sector, and would be a positive development, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech yesterday told the co-operative banking seminar.
The rise of social innovation education: good news for everyone
Forbes: Our guest blogger Derek Ellerman looks back on his time at Brown University in honor of Brown's designation as Changemaker Campus today. Derek is the co-founder of Polaris Project and an Ashoka Fellow. He's currently launching a new start-up, SHIFT, to support the rising generation of social entrepreneurs.
Turn food excess into a for-profit social enterprise opportunity
Ecopreneurist: Roughly one-third of food produced in the world is wasted. There is an obvious problem here. The problem is even more pronounced because there are millions who go to bed hungry, 1 in 6 americans. According to Canada's Second Harvest, a surplus food redistributor, food supply is not the problem distribution is. And where there is a problem, there is a business opportunity.
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