Mois : avril 2008

The Voice of Social Enterprises

Linked with Rafael C. Lopa – Philippines.

Social enterprises are profit-making businesses established to tackle social or environmental issues. The Coalition is the UK’s national body for social enterprise – We work with our members to inform the national policy agenda, showcase the benefits of social enterprise, and share best practice. (Homepage).

What is social enterprise;
has the credit crunch affected social enterprise? a survey questionary;
policy and research;
publications; http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/page.aspx?SP=1652
events;
ask our newsletter;
newsletter-archive;
links;
address: Social Enterprise Coalition, Southbank House, Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SJ, Tel: 020 7793 2323;
contacts.

About: The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK’s national body for social enterprise. The Coalition represents a wide range of social enterprises, regional and national support networks and other related organisations. We work with our members to: Continuer la lecture de « The Social Enterprise Coalition »

Linked with Rafael C. Lopa – Philippines.

Owned by the social enterprise sector, run by the sector for the benefit of the sector and every community it supports, the Social Enterprise Foundation is THE national membership body for organisational and personal development in the social enterprise sector in the United Kingdom. The mission is simply to drive the establishment of new forms of business that create social and economic value to all communities and reduce the disparities between the most affluent and most disadvantaged communities … (full text/Homepage).

about membership;
the social enterprise directory TM;
self assessment;
FAQs;
join us;
address: Social Enterprise Foundation, 64-65 St Andrew’s Road, Southampton SO14 0BA, England;
contact.

How it came about: The Social Enterprise Foundation was not born of a policy initiative, a funding programme, or an academic research project.
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Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health

Linked with Rani Bang – India.

SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health) is a non-government organisation registered as a public trust and charitable society in India (Reg. No: MH 35-85-GAD, F-224-GAD). It was founded in 1985 by a doctor couple, Abhay Bang and Rani Bang. Inspired by the life and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, trained respectively as a physician and a gynecologist, and after studying at the Johns Hopkins University USA, for their Master of Public Health, Drs. Bang returned to India. Their dream was to develop an institution of community health which provided health care to the local population, and generated knowledge for the global community by way of research. « Think globally, act locally! » (About /Background).

Homepage;
Philosophy;
What we do;
National Award.
Publications;
Address: SEARCH, Shodhgram P.O., District Gadchiroli, Maharashtra 442605, India;
Contact.

About: Vision: Realisation of ‘Aarogya-Swaraj’, i.e. people’s health in people’s hands, by empowering individuals and communities to take charge of their own health, and thereby, help them achieve freedom from disease as well as dependence.

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Linked with Michael Edwards – USA.

@lliance – for news and analysis of the latest developments in philantropy and social investment worldwide … with every issue some articles for free.

Homepage and links to articles for free;
conference calendar;
Links to Civil Society Publications;
Archive (for subscribers);
Contact.

About / what does Alliance cover: Alliance is the world’s leading magazine on philanthropy and social investment. Published by Alliance Publishing Trust, Alliance provides news and analysis of what’s happening in the philanthropy and social investment sectors across the world, and a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners. Alliance is for all those who want to keep up to date with developments and new thinking in this field.

As well as news and conference reports, articles, book reviews and opinion columns, each issue has a special in-depth feature on some key aspect of philanthropy and social investment, with contributors from around the world and expert guest editors.

Alliance aims always to include diverse northern and southern perspectives, connecting people and ideas across the world … (full text).

Linked with Tony Mazzocchi – USA.

« UE » is the abbreviation for United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a democratic national union representing some 35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector and private non-profit sector jobs. UE is an independent union (not affiliated with the AFL-CIO) proud of its democratic structure and progressive policies … (About 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
organize, join UE;
UE news;
political action;
Information for workers;
International solidarity;
resources;
links;
address: United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America UE, One Gateway Center, Suite 1400, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1416, Phone: 412.471.8919, Fax: 412.471.8999;
contact by mail.

About 2/2: Most UE members still work in factories related to the union’s traditional jurisdictions – electrical manufacturing, metalworking and plastics.

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