Creating Conversations is key.
We share our newest innovations with the sector in major public forums and work with peer organizations to create opportunities for sharing and collaborative learning.
We distill our learnings into publications and leverage our network partners to ensure our learnings reach as wide of an audience as possible.
Annual Reports
2021 Annual Report: Special 10 Years Report
Without a doubt, 2021 was a year of big challenges as well as big progress for Yunus Social Business. We are excited to dive into the journey of the last year, but before we do, we’d like to take a moment to zoom out and look at where we are from a wider perspective. After all, the end of 2021 marked a rather special milestone in our history: we turned 10 years old!
2020 Annual Report
In the midst of profound setbacks, we have been able to carry out work which has shown us that we are an organisation that lives up to its mission and remains true to its purpose.
2019 Impact Report
In the midst of profound setbacks, we have been able to carry out work which has shown us that we are an organisation that lives up to its mission and remains true to its purpose.
2018 Impact Report
In the midst of profound setbacks, we have been able to carry out work which has shown us that we are an organisation that lives up to its mission and remains true to its purpose.
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2017 Impact Report
Our Philanthropic Venture Funds grow local social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to over 3 million people in East Africa, Latin America & India. We turn donations into investments in social businesses, which we reinvest over and over again, multiplying the impact each time.
Publications
Enterprise Support Landscape Study
With ever more players interested in joining the social-business ecosystem, how can we start plugging some of the big gaps in the social-business support landscape?
The Power of Social Business
Lessons from Corporate Engagements with Grameen. A report with The Boston Consulting Group.
Social Success Note Report
Our in-person CEO forums and digital bar camps connect social-business entrepreneurs from around the world to share learnings and best practices.
Strengthening Social Business Through Venture Philanthropy
A report with The Boston Consulting Group looks at the data venture philanthropists measure generic metrics and the types of intervention they offer.
Designing a Social Business that Benefits the Core
A report with The Boston Consulting Group.
What Have We Learned: Financing Social Businesses in Uganda
Financing and supporting early-stage businesses in Uganda is not an easy task. In this report with USAID we look at what we have learned from our portfolio over the last few years...
A Road Less Traveled: Scaling Social Businesses
A study conducted by YSB on behalf of Robert Bosch Foundation about the key challenges for scaling social businesses in our target geographies.
