groupes en action

Linked with Glen Ford – USA, and with Obama’s « Race Neutral » Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions.

In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report, 11 January 2007 … (about).

Homepage and links (with today Issue for April 30 – May 6, 2008);
American Life;
Black Agenda Blog;
BA radio archive (audios);
Black Misleadership Class;
Congressional and CBC Watch (to change, click on the link in the left column);
Presidential Politics 2008;
Contact: no contact link found.

Black Agenda Report: There`s Nothing Like Us, Anywhere: Black Agenda Report is the only progressive Black journalistic publication that presents a consistent political vision on the burning issues of the day with the explicit purpose of building a movement for social change.
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Promoting venture philanthropy among the venture capital and private equity community in Central and Eastern Europe
(website exist also in espanol)

Linked with Rafael C. Lopa – Philippines.

The NESsT Venture Fund is a philanthropic investment fund providing financial and capacity-building support to a select portfolio of social enterprises owned and operated by civil society organizations in Central Europe and Latin America. All of the social enterprises in the NESsT Venture Fund portfolio are intended to generate revenues to help diversify the financing base and further the mission of the parent nonprofit organization. The NESsT Venture Fund is intended to further the mission of NESsT to address the limitations of the nonprofit capital market at multiple levels: … (full text, goals).

Investment Strategy;
Portfolio;
Business Advisory Network;
Partnerships;
Joining the portfolio;
Investor Circle;
Publications;
Contact.

Problem Statement: NESsT sees fundamental flaws with the current paradigm in which nonprofit, civil society organizations (CSOs) compete for a limited pie of existing philanthropic resources.
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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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