Could Data Transform The Lives Of 500 Million Smallholder Farmers Worldwide?
Regi Wahyu is a data-entrepreneur transforming smallholder farming in Indonesia and beyond. He is the co-founder of HARA and an Ashoka Fellow since 2018.
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Vulnerable not exempt from furlough winding down, employers told
Government wage subsidies for disabled and vulnerable workers could be drastically scaled back from August under Treasury plans to wind down its Covid-19 furlough scheme, employers’ groups have warned. Charities and
How This B Corp Fund Manager Uses the B Impact Assessment to Evaluate Its Investments
Bridges Fund Management Demonstrates the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Approach and Builds the B Corp CommunityLondon based Bridges Fund Management is a pioneer in the impact investing space.For the more than 3,300 companies around the world that are Cert...
B The Change Week in Review
“We have the unprecedented opportunity to push the reset button, redesign, and rebuild a new version of capitalism. But this time, the scales will have shifted so that more of us will be equipped with something we didn’t share before: empathy.”As noted...
Helping Workers Thrive in the Transition to Greener Economies
Denmark and Canada Provide Varying Examples of Market Shift Toward Clean Energy(Photo by Adolfo Félix on Unsplash)This article highlights edited excerpts from a podcast created by the Network for Business Sustainability, a growing network of more than ...
B Corps Can Create a New Version of Capitalism Where Everyone Is Essential
How Businesses Can Build an Honest, People-Centered Economy through Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion—and Love(Photo from Rawpixel)This article is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In t...
B Corps Can Create a New Version of Capitalism Where Everyone Is Essential
How Businesses Can Build an Honest, People-Centered Economy through Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion—and Love(Photo from Rawpixel)This article is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In t...
How Empathy Can Inform the New Capitalism
B The Change Weekly: May 15, 2020(Photo from Nick Bolton on Unsplash)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note ...
Sales Leadership During and After the Crisis
By Frank Cespedes, Top Sales Magazine Even in good times, life in a sales organization is filled with short-term deadlines and pressures: sales per quarter, sales per rep, did she or didn’t she meet quota. As a sales manager once said to me, “In this job, if you don’t survive the short term, you don’t … Continue reading Sales Leadership During and After the Crisis
Forward-Thinking Strategies to Help Remote Workers
How Business Teams Can Rethink Collaboration and Connection(Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash)By Dr. Heidi JannengaThe coronavirus pandemic has challenged us in ways we never could have imagined. And even when this is all over, our day-to-day will c...
YouMeWe Foundation’s founder awarded Governor General’s Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers
January 30, 2020, Suzanne F. Stevens receives the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers awarded by the Governor General of Canada, Canada’s highest volunteer honour, for her dedication to amplifying the voices of African women.
Suzanne founded the YouMeWe Foundation in 2007 and raised funds for 26 tertiary education scholarships for women …
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From Competition To Sharing: How Her Children’s Rare Disease Led Sharon Terry To Revolutionize Medical Research
25 years ago, Sharon Terry learned that her children had a rare genetic disease - and that trying to cure it would mean changing the way research is conducted.
Small Businesses, Big Impact
B The Change Weekly: May 8, 2020(Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly note from ...
Hey Business Managers: Are You Ready to Give up Control?
In Iran the new generation has found ways to exercise freedom of speech. Sahba, 19 years old, in her living room in Tehran. (© Francesca Manolino / LUZ)Let’s Talk About the Generation Shaping Our Market and World—Millennials—and How They Interact with ...