Transcript The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

History of the Foundation
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.
It was founded by Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde in 1998 to highlight and encourage men, women and organizations dedicated to creating opportunities
for others in directly productive ways.
Klaus Schwab is the President and Founder of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum is a global community of
business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world through economic and social development.
Message from the Founders
"This Foundation has been a dream of ours for
many years. My belief always has been that in the
end, economic and social progress can only be
achieved through entrepreneurship of all kinds.
The Foundation enables us to encourage and
foster entrepreneurs working for the public
interest - to support them and provide them with
access and funding to an international platform for
experience exchange that they might otherwise
lack.
Mission
The Schwab Foundation provides a global platform to promote social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems
in an innovative and effective manner.
Objectives
1.To be the foremost organization for identifying, selecting and highlighting accomplished social entrepreneurs at the regional and global
levels, stimulating productive linkages between them.
2.To be a driving force that builds a global community of outstanding social entrepreneurs and others interested in promoting social
entrepreneurship, leveraging successes of social entrepreneurs to achieve wider impact for the public good.
3.To be the preferred partner for companies and social investors seeking to support social entrepreneurs around the world.
4.To be a global standard bearer for excellence in social entrepreneurship and innovation for the public good.
Irupana- Bolivia
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Irupana works with 1,700 indigenous farming
families across Bolivia, buying certified
organically grown produce directly from them,
cutting out the middleman. Irupana produces
and distributes 80
products including coffee, tea, bread, honey,
marmalades, chocolate, dried fruits, a variety of
cereals, to 18 Irupana stores and 300 outlets
that stock Irupana foodstuffs, including large
supermarkets. Approximately 4,000 customers a
day buy its products. Organic goods sell at
higher prices as they are targeted to middle and
upper income consumers, allowing Irupana to
pay prices to farmers that are about 25% higher
than non-organic produce. Javier Hurtado,
Irupana’s founder, encourages the farmers with
whom he works to keep a portion of their
harvest, thus improving
their own families' nutrition. Hurtado employs
knowledge of organic agriculture and high
standards of production to create a product that
will command a premium price. Last year,
Irupana’s sales
expanded by 32% despite the economic
downturn in the region. Irupana has begun to
secure international markets, and just signed a
contract with a German buyer to supply 180 tons
of Irupana’s cereals over the next three years.
Waste Concern- Bangladesh
By promoting the concept of waste as a resource and
emphasizing on the marketing aspect of organic
waste, Waste Concern is causing a chain reaction
among multiple sectors in Bangladesh. Working in
partnership with communities, Waste Concern has set
in motion a process for house-to-house solid waste
collection that is then taken to community-based
composting plants to turn the waste into organic
fertilizer. Waste Concern arranges for fertilizer
companies to purchase and nationally market the
compost-based enriched bio-fertilizers it produces.
Waste Concern thus provides jobs for urban poor that
collect the waste and work in the local plants and
stimulates behavioural changes in urban communities
and the waste management industry. In addition,
Waste Concern helps to address the environmental
problem of diminishing topsoil fertility due to the use
of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in Bangladesh.
At present, 30,000 people are benefited from Waste
Concern’s project in Dhaka.
ASAFE -Cameroon
Gisèle Yitamben's Association pour
le Soutien et l'Appui a la Femme
Entrepreneur (ASAFE) is providing
business training and development
services, alternative financing and
access to e-commerce to support
thousands of women entrepreneurs
in Cameroon, Guinea, Benin, Chad
and the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Today, ASAFE is actively
engaged with technology
companies and business incubators
to help African entrepreneurs
overcome the digital divide.
IDEAAS - BRAZIL
Fabio Rosa has pioneered systems to
provide electricity to hundreds of
thousands of impoverished rural
Brazilians. His widely-replicated
Palmares Project established the
standard for low-cost electricity
transmission in rural Brazil, reducing
costs to consumers by more than 90
percent. Today, Rosa is spreading
innovative "agro-electric" solutions that
combine photo-voltaic solar energy,
electric fencing, and improved farming
and grazing systems to simultaneously
combat poverty, land degradation and
global warming.
ApproTEC- Kenya and Tanzania,
ApproTEC seeks to develop a significant middle class in
Africa by stimulating the growth of a thriving
entrepreneurial sector. Beginning with Kenya and
Tanzania, it seems well on its way to attaining that
goal. ApproTEC creates new businesses and jobs by
developing and promoting new low-cost technologies
that are bought and used by local entrepreneurs to
establish profitable small businesses. By identifying,
developing and marketing technologies with a high
benefit-cost ratio, ApproTEC enables poor but
industrious individuals to play an effective role in the
market economy, substantially increasing their
incomes and creating jobs and a host of backward
and forward linkages. By July 2002, over 28,000
pieces of ApproTEC-designed machines and tools
had been purchased in East Africa. Today over 500
new pieces are sold every month. Local
entrepreneurs have used these tools to start over
24,000 new small enterprises, create over 25,500 new
jobs and generate over US$30 million a year in new
profits and wages. Between them, they already
generate over 0.5% of Kenya's GDP
Duck Revolution- Japan
Takao Furuno has developed and
disseminated a sustainable, integrated
organic rice and duck farming system
that significantly increases yields and
has been replicated in tens of thousands
of locations across Asia. Rather than
using chemical inputs, Furuno
introduces ducks into rice paddies to
fertilize and strengthen rice seedlings
and protect them from pests and weeds.
This process boosts farmers' incomes
and decreases their work load, while
reducing environmental damage and
increasing food security.
Rubicon Programs -USA
We make cakes
and a whole
lot more
The Big Issue - Scotland
The Big Issue in Scotland, co-founded by Mel Young
and Tricia Hughes, is a weekly street paper sold by
homeless people in Scotland. Based on the
philosophy of providing a hand up, not a hand out, its
homeless vendors receive 60% of the cover price for
each sale. Featuring a mix on hardhitting current
affairs and lively critiques on art and entertainment.
The Big Issue in Scotland sells 50,000 a week with a
readership of 255,000 and is most popular amongst
15 to 24 year olds. Its popularity has demonstrated
the viability of publications that blend social and
business objectives. Building on the success of Big
Issue in Scotland, Young helped launch a global
association - International Network of Street Papers
(INSP) - to provide support to 50 similar street
papers in 30 countries across five continents. Young
is currently President of INSP.
The official Homeless World Cup Programme 2004
The official Homeless World Cup Programme 2004
The streetpaper editors of "Faktum" Gothenburg have directed all of their creativeness to produce
this special edition. A stunning presentation of 30 teams worldwide. Plus everything you need to know
around the Homeless World Cup in the city centre of Gothenburg, 25.07.-01.08.2004
The streetpaper editors of "Faktum" Gothenburg have directed all of their creativeness to produce this special edition. A stunning presentation of 30 teams worldwide. Plus everything you need to know around the Homeless World Cup in the city centre of Gothenburg, 25.07.-01.08.2004