Social Business
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' Profit - An Op-Ed by Professor Muhammad Yunus
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' ProfitProfessor Muhammad Yunus Nobel Laureate for Peace, 2006History of human beings is a history of being driven basically by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximization. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses to serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of ...
Nearly One Million Reached : Yunus' petition reaches close to one million signatures, urging global leaders to put people ahead pharma patents
Yunus Centre Press Release (11 December 2020) Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus launched a call for Covid-19 vaccines to be declared a Common Good in June 2020, which has been joined by 24 other Nobel Laureates and 125 former Presidents, Prime Ministers, and eminent global figures. With the upcoming EU Council Meeting of the European Heads of State, The TRIPS Council, WTO General Council and the African Union meetings, nearly one million, that is 913,453 people as of December 11, 2020...
Your Support for the Campaign to Make COVID-19 Vaccines a Global Common Good
Greetings from Yunus Centre! You should be pleased to know that we are working tirelessly on our campaign to demand for COVID-19 Vaccines as a Global Common Good.In the light of the upcoming EU Council Meeting of European Heads of State, the TRIPS Council, WTO General Council and the African Union Meetings, we have teamed up with Avaaz to showcase a mandate for the vaccine. The following petition has already been signed by 900,000 people. We need your help to reach a million!&nbs...
9th Social Business Academia Conference 2020
The 9th Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC 2020) will be an interdisciplinary conference to be held in November 2020 where academic papers, practitioner cases, and concept notes on innovative ideas on any issues related to social business will be presented. Taking place as both a virtual and two socially distant and safety maintained limited guests only sessions in collaboration with the Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC)s in Colombia: Universidad ICESI (Cali) and Universidad Externado d...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture 05 : Why and How Corporates Get Involved in Social Business.
We would like to invite you join us for the next session of the YSBC Web Lecture Series: Lecture 5: Why and How Corporates get involved in Social Business which is coming up on October 19, 2020; Time: 14:00:00 GMT (Please Check your Time Here). In this session Mr. Leonhard Nima, Founder of Studio Nima will be in a virtual fireside chat with session speaker, Mr. Hans Reitz, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Creative Lab, talking on the important i...
YSBC Web Lecture Series - Lecture 04 : Technology for Fighting Poverty : Story of Telephone Ladies of Bangladesh
The next session of YSBC Web Lecture Series is on “Technology for Fighting Poverty: Story of Telephone Ladies of Bangladesh” with Moderator Dr. Faiz Shah, the Director of Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand and Speaker Mr. Md. Ashraful Hassan, Managing Director of Grameen Telecom. This exciting session will be on 5 October 2020 at 7.00 pm Dhaka GMT +6, featuring Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.To join us, please register at ...
Grameen America Inc. receives $25 million grant from MacKenzie Scott
Transformational Gift will Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Low-Income Minority Women EntrepreneursNew York, NY, July 28, 2020 —Grameen America Inc., the leading microfinance nonprofit organization focused on low-income minority women in the United States, today announced the receipt of a $25 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. This transformational investment in Grameen America’s proven social capital model will accelerate the organization’s strategic initiati...
Grameen Yemen launches Microcredit and Social Business in Yemen Disbursing its First Microloan
Grameen Trust Press Release (07 July, 2020)The first Loan Disbursement Ceremony of GYF was held at Az Zuhrah branch, the first Microcredit Branch of Grameen Yemen in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen on July 5, 2020. Twelve women received micro loans for Sheep rearing, clothing, vegetables, transport and perfume businesses. Thirty six women already joined the borrowing groups. Grameen Yemen will be an all-women programme.Three fourth of the population of Yemen are under the poverty line...
Social Business Day 2020
Yunus Centre Press Release (25 June, 2020)Social Business Day will be observed globally this year as well, on June 26-28, mostly in the virtual space.The Live segment of the 10th Social Business Day 2020 will be held as the “Summer of Purpose” at Messe München, Munich, Germany, organized by Yunus Centre and Grameen Creative Lab. It will be a physical event in Munich hooked up with virtual events globally. It will bring change makers from politics, business, science, sports...
Zoom Conference: Fighting AI Wealth Concentration with AI Social Businesses (AI SB)
10th Social Business Day 2020 Satellite Event Register: https://bit.ly/3e9IVyI1:30PM Adelaide, 12:00PM Malaysia, 10:00AM Bhutan Politeknik KK (PKK) SABAH MALAYSIA Online YSBC “USING AI to fight AI Wealth Concentration” Mission: Transform children of Dr Yunus inspired microfinance borrowers to be a PKK DYYA STEMSEL AI SOCIAL BUSINESS (SASB) STARTUPS to make IoT STEM AI Projects. Examples:A. 1 line of code to create Vision between IP camera laptop and 2 lines t...
Grameen Telecom provides Personal Protective Gear and and Safety Equipment to Al-Markazul Islami Bangladesh and Dhaka Metropolitan Ambulance Owners Cooperative Society
Press Release - Grameen Telecom - 19 June 2020Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Bangladesh, Grameen Telecom has been distributing personal protective gear and safety equipment to doctors, nurses and other health workers in hospitals and to members of various organizations engaged in coronavirus treatment. So far, protective equipment have been provided to more than 50 hospitals and institutions.Al-Markazul Islami Bangladesh has been playing an important role during the coronavirus pande...
First of its kind One-Stop COVID-19 “Triage and Sample Collection” Booth to Scale up COVID-19 RT-PCR tests in Bangladesh.
Press Release - Digital Healthcare Solutions (DH) - 04 June 2020 Digital Healthcare Solutions (DH), the Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHi) and Mugda Medical College & Hospital (MuMCH) have collaborated to launch the first of the new digital booths, to help increase capacity in Bangladesh for COVID19 screening and testing. This is an important initiative under a multi-partner consortium, led by Concern Worldwide, which is implementing the Essential Hea...
Announcement of 10th Social Business Day 2020 as Summer of Purpose on 26-28 June
Invitation for Free RegistrationNobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus invites you to join the 10th Social Business Day 2020 as Summer of Purpose organized by the Grameen Creative Lab in partnership with Yunus Centre, circ and Messe München on 26-28 June at Messe München, Munich, Germany.We invite you to gather with us virtually in an international live event in Munich with personalities from the arena of politics, business, science, sports, art and culture to find new ways of d...
1 Million Free Non-Medical Masks Distributed by Grameen Telecom
Press Release - Grameen Telecom (03 June 2020)The use of face masks during the Covid-19 epidemic has been widely regarded as a very successful and essential safety measure for all. According to various international studies and the announcement from the Department of Health of Bangladesh, the use of masks made of cloth, especially those made of knit fabrics, significantly reduces the risk of coronavirus infection. Even though the spread of the virus is on the rise, people are stepping out of the...
Rebuilding a better world Online Course 11 th – 15 th of May 2020 with the Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus
The online course "Rebuilding a better world" took place from 11 to 20 May 2020; this was the first European distance higher education activity in which the Nobel Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus participated after the crisis triggered by the covid-19 emergency and will take place from 11 to 20 May 2020.The initiative started from a proposal of City of Peace for Children Basilicata and University od Basilicata, inside the Yunus Social Business Centre of Basilicata, in partnership with a network of ...