Realising Africa’s Potential
This year on 1 December 2012, TEDxEuston will be “Challenging Conventional Wisdom” on several issues relating to the African continent at the beautiful Mermaid Conference Centre on the bank of the Thames. This will be the fourth edition of TEDxEuston that started with two London based African doctors who were invited to the TEDGlobal Conference […]
How can Development Finance Institutions contribute to achieving, and going beyond the Millennium Development Goals?
Street children: the problem on our conscience and our doorsteps
Every five minutes, a child in the UK runs away. Today is International Day for Street Children, and a pertinent time to reflect on what this means for people, business, and society. “Street children” can be found in prosperous Western Europe as well as in developing countries. Perhaps this is the first myth we need […]
Join Diamonds for Good
The diamond and jewelry industry is engaging in innovative strategies to increase consumer awareness of its efforts to fight poverty and to promote sustainable economic development in nations where diamonds are mined and extracted. Local, regional and international businesses continued to affirm the strategic importance of demonstrating a commitment to corporate social responsibility. Seven years […]
Investing in Latin America’s Water and Sanitation Solutions
In recent years, rattling off the stats underpinning the problem of water and sanitation solutions has thankfully become more common. Awareness is on the rise. But that doesn’t change the fact that an estimated 2.5 billion people – 37 percent of the world’s population – face the health risks associated with deficient or absent sanitation […]
Discussion – Water with SABMiller
Dan Pallotta: Business Can’t Solve the World’s Problems — But Capitalism Can
Business and capitalism get conflated — in our media, our language and in our thinking. They are not the same thing. One is a sector, the other a methodology. By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, […]
Discussion: BIF and Sanitation
What do you think about DFID's decision to increase its focus on growth and investment?
What do you think about DFID’s decision to increase its focus on growth and investment?
Discussion: How can companies identify, support, and harness the potential of social intrapreneurs?
The Power of Music
On 6 March, Business Fights Poverty will be helping make a little history, but not of the sort you would probably imagine. For the first time, house music will be coming to the UK’s House of Commons, with headline act Fat Boy Slim (aka Norman Cook). According to Fat Boy Slim, “I’ve played some exciting […]
Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value
Help your programme scale up! We are looking to invest in social change by helping innovative, commercially viable, and high impact initiatives achieve social scale and financial sustainability. The winning entry will benefit from financial support of up to CHF 500,000 (approx. USD 530,000). Specific fields of activity include, but are not limited to: agriculture, […]
Measure Up – The Quick and Easy Way to Compare Fashion Brands
I always maintain that second-hand shopping is the ultimate in guilt free consumption. Second-hand finds are sustainable and affordable and, if they are charity shops finds, you’re supporting a good cause too. Sometimes though, you can’t find everything you need second-hand. Sometimes, you might want to venture onto the high street and the that can […]
Kristie Wang: Nutrients for All – Thriving Ecosystems for Productive, Resilient Food Systems
Natural ecosystems ensure that vital nutrients flow from soils to food to people. Thriving ecosystems are the bedrock of healthy nutrient chains, the basis of all life on the planet. So what’s the issue? Degraded by human activity like unsustainable agricultural practices, ecosystems around the world and their capacity to regenerate are threatened. This escalating […]
Voluntourism: More Harm than Good?
I recently came across an interesting article problematizing voluntourism and assessing whether it does more harm than good in communities of the global south. It reminded me of my own concerns with voluntourism that originated in my college years in which I had participated in ‘Alternative Spring Breaks.’ It was considered an ‘alternative’ to what […]
Discussion: Do you think that volunteer tourists do more harm than good?
Call for Evidence: Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
The Government is carrying out a review of the balance of competences between the European Union and the United Kingdom. The balance of competences review will give us an informed and objective analysis of where the EU helps and where it hampers, providing a comprehensive analysis of what the EU means for this country. DFID […]
Discussion – Inclusive Business Insights – CSR vs IB
High ideals and hiccups – three wishes for Unilever and employers everywhere
By Rosey Hurst, Founder and Director, Impactt Applause today must go to Unilever’s courageous decision to allow Oxfam unfettered access to its operations and supply chain in Vietnam. This has resulted in a report revealing both high ideals and implementation hiccups when it comes to the quality of jobs Unilever directly provides or supports through […]