Brazil Impact Excursion | February 2019 | YSB & CSP

Brazil Impact Excursion | February 2019 | YSB & CSP

February 22, 2019

Along with The Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) at the University of Zurich went out and about around São Paulo at the start of February to explore the ecosystem of social businesses and investment. Take a look at our fantastic week in the video:


Social Businesses we visited

Insituto Muda

4you2

Assobio

Revoada

Guten News

VerBem

Partners

Fabio Barbosa

Mattos Filho

Vox Capital

Ambev

Itau

GPS Investimentos

This electric rickshaw social business in India are cleaning up polluted streets

Naveen was born and raised in a small village outside Varanasi in Northern India. All his life, he grew up around manual rickshaw drivers carrying people to and from the city, it’s backbreaking work for very little pay. He saw that very often the rickshaw cyclists came from some of the most vulnerable communities, frequently associated with drug and alcohol abuse.

The Quick Social Business Christmas Gift Guide

This Christmas, it’s more important than ever to support social businesses. At a time when it may feel easier to shop online at the major online retailer ‘who shall not be named’, why not take a bit of time to find a social business which benefits a local community?

Do you know an #UnusualPioneer? Nominate a corporate social intrapreneur for a scholarship!

Nominate a corporate social intrapreneur for a scholarship for the Unusual Pioneers platform until Feb 28th. The Unusual Pioneers is a joint initiative by Yunus Social Business, Porticus, and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, sister organisation of the World Economic Forum.

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