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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Iran’s Lesson for Social Entrepreneurship

Iran’s Green Revolution, a mass movement in response to possible election fraud, has fascinated the world with its force, speed, and digital fuel. In trying to find some connection between… More…

Value Web poster

As Volans cranks up for its first birthday party on Monday, belatedly because we actually passed that milestone on 1 April, one new adornment for our 2 Bloomsbury Place office… More…

New Partnership to Scale Energy Access in Asia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched an Energy for All Partnership that aims to provide access to modern (renewable) energy to an additional 100 million people in the Asia-Pacific… More…

Philanthropic Foundations as Catalysts of Scale

Next Wednesday (June 24th) I will be facilitating a workshop designed for the AVINA Foundation at Tällberg, Sweden, on the day before the kick-off of the Tällberg Forum. AVINA’s International… More…

Asia focuses on Green Growth

“We believe that a strong economy and a clean environment are not mutually exclusive, and that Korea has to take an active part in tackling climate change,” Han Seung-Soo, Prime… More…

Rotary Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge Opens for your ideas

The Rotary Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009 (RYSEC 2009) opens for submissions from Singapore-based teams TODAY. RYSEC is organised by the Rotary Club of Singapore, SYINC and Volans. Teams of… More…

Steroids revised: The economic stimulus package for renewables

A central concern to our work on Pathways to Scale is the extent to which governments are supporting the scaling up of renewable energy solutions, especially as they roll out… More…

Schwab Foundation announces the winners of the 2009 Africa Regional Social Entrepreneurs

The Schwab Foundation has recognized three new social entrepreneurs with significant impact in the region as winners of the Africa Regional Social Entrepreneurs Award for 2009. David Kuria, Chief Executive… More…

African social entrepreneurs honoured

The Schwab Foundation has recognized three new social entrepreneurs with significant impact in the region as winners of the Africa Regional Social Entrepreneurs Award for 2009. David Kuria, Chief Executive… More…

Lessons from the Mafia

My first month of research has revolved around reading the newspaper….yes life is indeed hard! One story that sparked my interest in particular (primarily because I have watched the God… More…

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

The Volans team wishes you a happy World Environment Day, an occasion launched by the fledgling United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1972. Much progress has been made in recent… More…

Looking for Young Social Entrepreneurs

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is searching for young social entrepreneurs to include in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. The World Economic Forum is committed to… More…

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