Social Business Program

 

On the Up - a journey across Africa to uncover the most inspiring social entrepreneurs

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We are now in Rwanda - half way through a journey from Cape Town to Cairo to uncover Africa’s most inspiring social entrepreneurs.  As we transcend the east coast of this giant continent, we are searching each country for real changemakers; people who are bringing entrepreneurial solutions to much debated development issues.  Through our networks and research, we have identified a suite of changemakers we will be visiting (see below). With only two weeks in each country our time is limited so the list is by no means exhaustive. We’ve tried to capture a real breadth of causes and we’re looking for people and projects who are truly exceptional.

Between May and August 2011, we will be spending time with these social entrepreneurs and their projects so we can really delve into their stories, unpicking the ingredients for how passion has been converted into action. We want to get to grips with the factors which contribute to social change success and more importantly, we want to know how we can inspire others to help.  Just as we were inspired when we were students, we want to galvanise others to become changemakers too.

Along our travels we are blogging about our discoveries through our website (www.ontheup.org.uk) and facebook (www.facebook.com/ontheupcapetocairo). We will be writing short blog posts with our initial insights including suggestions for action for all of our followers. Amalgamating the best stories from projects across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan & Egypt, we will also endeavour to write a book. This will cover a deeper critique of the social entrepreneurs who really struck us and will focus on how the readers can get involved. We will sell the book for a small profit which will be donated back to the projects profiled.

Please follow our journey and contribute any suggestions of social entrepreneurs we should be profiling along the way.

Posted July 13, 2011 by email 
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TED Fellow Program Application for 2012 Deadline July 25th Apply Now

About the TED Fellows program
 

 
TED Fellows is an international fellowship program designed to nurture great ideas and help them spread around the world. Benefits of the Fellowship include conference admission, round-trip transportation, housing, and all meals. Fellows will also participate in a pre-conference with the opportunity to present a short talk that will be considered for TED.com, elite skills-building courses taught by world experts, social opportunities, and surprise extras. 
 
The program seeks remarkable thinkers and doers who have shown unusual accomplishment, exceptional courage, moral imagination, and the potential to increase positive change in their respective fields. The program focuses on innovators in technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship, and the NGO community, among other fields. The program targets individuals from the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, though consideration will be given to applicants from the rest of the world. Applicants are generally between 21 and 40 years of age, though anyone over 18 may apply. They must also be fluent in English.
 
For more information:
     Visit: www.ted.com/fellows
     Follow: @tedfellow
     Watch: www.youtube.com/TEDFellowsTalks
     Join: www.facebook.com/TEDFellow
     Read: http://tedfellows.posterous.com

Posted July 12, 2011 by email 
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GREAT OPPORTUNITY for Artemisia Alumni with iCats Program by LGT for a Fellowship in Social Business

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LGT Venture Philanthropy (www.lgtvp.com) is an impact investor supporting organizations with outstanding social and environmental impact to increase the quality of life of less advantaged people. As part of our support, we select professionals (iCats) who are willing to apply their business skills to build management capacity within the supported organizations. By doing that, iCats contribute significantly to scale-up the organizations’ impact.
 

We are now accepting applications to select the next group of impact catalysts for the iCats Fellowship class 2012. Apply now http://bit.ly/l2DTrw  (deadline 31st of July 2011).

Use Your Professional Skills to Create Positive Impact
 
Apply now to the iCats Fellowship Program and build management capacity
 
South Africa, Columbia, Peru, Chile, India, Philippines, Germany, USA
 
LGT Venture Philanthropy (www.lgtvp.com) is an impact investor that supports organizations with outstanding social and environmental impact to increase the quality of life of less advantaged people. As part of their support, LGT selects professionals (iCats) who are willing to apply their business skills to build management capacity within the supported organizations. iCats support the critical expansion of participating organizations and contribute significantly to scaling-up the organizations’ impact. Since inception of the iCats Program in 2008, 30 passionate business professionals from 13 countries, worked for 16 social organizations on 5 continents to create significant positive impact through their experience. Meet them on www.icatsprogram.com.
 
Applications are now welcomed to select the next group of impact catalysts for the 2012 Fellowship class.
 
 

>> Apply now at http://bit.ly/l2DTrw  (deadline July 31, 2011)

 

Posted July 4, 2011 by email 
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Artemisia Career Opportunity - Latin America Partnership Coordinator

Potencia Ventures – (Former Artemisia International) is opening the Regional Coordinator position for Latin America as a GEP Internship of 1 year and a half in Brazil, with further possibility of hiring the person at Artemisia, thus providing a career path within the Social Business field. Required: English (ability for learning foreign languages in case the person does not speak Spanish or Portuguese). All the best! 

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Posted May 20, 2011 by Andres Bustillos 
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NextBillion.net - information and opportunities around Social Business

I'm Rob, former Global Coordinator of the Social Business Program. In June last year i started working with NextBillion.net, a group of websites that offers articles, news and opportunities related to Social Business. There is an international site in English, a Spanish site focused on Latin America, and a Brazilian site in Portuguese. I believe this is a great way to complement the learning you're getting through the Social Business Program. I look forward to reading your comments and to receiving your suggestions!

Posted May 15, 2011 by email 
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Artemisia Social-Business Competition

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 NEW DEAD LINES FOR SUBMITTING YOUR SOCIAL BUSINESS IDEAS

25 March Applications open
8 MAY
 Applications close
15 May
 Review of applications by Artemisia and announcement of applications that continue in the competition.
16 May - 18 June
Develop your business plan
18 June Deadline to submit your business plan
4 July Announcement of finalists
5 July - 5 August 
Finalists revise business plans, supported by coaches
20th August
Results and WINNERS announced by Artemisia at IC Kenya 2011

The Artemisia Social-Business Competition is an exclusive opportunity to put your idea for a new Social Business into practice! By sharing cutting-edge resources and offering coaching, Artemisia will support you to write a business plan for your idea. 

CAN I CHOOSE BOTH, MAKING MONEY AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD?

Check out the Artemisia Social-Business Competition wiki (for AIESEC members)

Applications close: 8th May 23:59 GMT

Send your applications to competition@artemisia.org.br

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Posted April 28, 2011 by Andres Bustillos 
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Artemisia Summit April 2011 DAY 2

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Artemisia Summit 08/04/2011


DAY 2


The second day of the Summit started at 9.00 a.m.. We started the agenda for the day learning about the definition of social business.

Highlighting the importance of providing a product or a service to people at the bottom of the pyramid, for profit model and the social impact that the organization wants to achieve.

Another crucial component of every social business is the intention to create a positive impact in society as nobel prize winner Dr. Junus said “Intention is what matters the most”.

We learned to analyze organizations based on Canvas model. It is a very useful and simple tool which allows to better understand the business model of any organization in a very short period of time. No need to read dozens of pages explaining the business model, just a simple visualized scheme. Read more about the Canvas Model

In order to understand the tool we applied it to several organizations, starting from the well-known Grameen Bank or The Red Cross and finishing with analyzing our own organizations.  

Each intern showed their organization to each other using the canvas model tool. The organizations presented were:

·         Inclusive Planet  http://www.inclusiveplanet.com/

·         Onergy  http://onergy.in/

·         Altis

·         Sahaja  http://www.sahajasamrudha.org/

·         Barrier Break / Sign´ntalk  http://www.barrierbreak.com/

·         Sarvaja / Piramal Water Solutions  http://www.sarvajal.com/

·         Babajob  http://www.babajob.com/

·         Mdhil www.mdhil.com

 

After lunch break we had a session delivered by David Pires (Mdhil intern) and Youni Nip (Babajob intern). Both of them were selected in 2010 to work in social business too. The session aim was to transmit their own experience during the time spent in India and encourage the new interns to make the most out of this experience.

The next session showed us more information about organizations that support social ventures in many ways like The Aspen Institute http://www.aspeninstitute.org/, Acumen Fund www.acumenfund.org/, Vox Capital http://www.voxcapital.com.br/, E+CO http://eandco.net/, Villgro http://www.villgro.org/ and many more.

 

That was the end of Day 2 agenda.

 

 

 

 

Posted April 21, 2011 by email 
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Life-Changing Artemisia Exchange Opportunity at mDhil - Around web / social innovation on Healthcare Information in emerging countries

mDhil is looking for a talented AIESECer  exciting to contribute to a social business using web 2.0 & mobile technologies to create a positive impact in emerging countries on the field of healthcare information. You will find below the next TN available in Artemisia India. It's really an exciting job around web innovation in a really innovative startup !

  • If you are interested Apply ASAP !
  • If you anybody that might be interested please forward him the message !
  • If you have any question, feel free to contact
 
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About mDhil

mDhil is a social enterprise start-up that creates and distributes original health content for the Indian user.  Our initial services were SMS-based, but we are now expanding to mobile & desktop web, as well as original video (we have over 30,000 views on our YouTube channel!). We were born out of a need for honest and frank health-related information that is factually accurate, supported by health professionals, and compelling for an Indian audience. Our most popular topics include sexual health and women’s health, but we also create great content on diet & nutrition, beauty, lifestyle diseases, exercise, and chronic illnesses. Information is displayed on the website in the form of articles, health tips, images, slideshows, quizzes and videos. Our core users are urban youth (over 25,000 Facebook fans!), but we also cover topics of interest to an older audience. A Harvard Business School MBA graduate founded the company, and you would be joining a small teamof bright individuals who have fun while building a great company.  Our work has been recognized at venues like TED, Sankalp Mumbai, and the World Bank.  If interested, read on.     Job Description As a Digital Marketing & Web Project Manager you will develop & manage innovative online marketing strategies through SEO / SEM & Social Media platforms :
  • Create, monitor & execute the SEO / SEM strategy (Google Analytics, AdWords etc.)
  • Develop strategies to maximize effective use of Social Media tools
  • Implementation of new services & innovation on the site, mobile site, apps, etc.
  • Participate in content development, assist the Web Editor to publish on the CMS
  • Manage the IT outsourced team & deal the IT Partners

 

Profile & Background

  • Concrete work experience as a Digital Marketing Manager / Web Project Manager
  • Passionate on web 2.0 / social media tools / mobile (bloggers are welcome!)
  • Excellent use of social media tools (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Blogs etc.)
  • Enthusiasm, proactivity & entrepreneurial spirit. Excited to work in a startup!
  • Interested by social enterprise and / or healthcare sector
  • Webmaster / CMS or Blogging Experience (WordPress / HTML)
  • Vice President Communication or IM (national or international preferred)
  • Previous leadership experience (preferred)
  • Digital design experience: Photoshop, HTML, Banner / logo creation (preferred)
  • Indian origins preferred due to visa issues (preferred)
  • Oh, and hopefully you are fun to be around … we’ve been know to share a few beers on Fridays at the office icon smile AIESEC / mDhil Internship Program

    • Learning Points for the intern
    • Entrepreneurship in the social impact space
    • The use of IT in diverse setting
    • Digital Marketing & Social Media
    • Outsourcing Project Management
    • Communication, relationship-building, and networking with industry stakeholders

     

    Information to keep in mind
    • Salary:  470 USD per month, paid by mDhil
    • Internship located in Bangalore – India
    • One year internship starting in May-June 2011

     

    Application Details
    1. Download & Read the Candidate Booklet
    2. Fullfill the Application Form Online
    3. Attach the rest of your application (Cover letter & Resume / CV)
    4. Submit your Application

     

    *The TN Form will be available in few days but you can already start to apply

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    Posted April 15, 2011 by David PIRES 
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