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Social Innovation Taking-off in Latin America
By Loïc Comolli, NESsT Co-CEO The World Economic Forum on Latin America Social Innovation Summit, held in Lima, Peru, gathered one hundred public, corporate, and social leaders to debate social...
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Social Challenge The over-exploitation of forests during the nineties endangered the production of honey and products made of honey. Although the production of honey has improved in the last decade,...
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Social Challenge Many small and medium producers of milk products live in conditions of poverty in Ecuador. There is an urgent need to commercialize these products as well as those that have value...
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Social Challenge Quinoa has been traditionally cultivated by small producers in Ecuador, many of whom live below the poverty line. Due to its very high level of protein, quinoa has become a coveted...
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Tres nuevas empresas se suman al portafolio de NESsT
La elaboración de productos alimenticios es el factor común entre las ganadoras de nuestra última convocatoria en Ecuador. Gonzalo San Martín de NESsT junto a Patricio Juelas de Sumak Life, durante la...
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Three new social enterprises are added to the NESsT portfolio
The manufacturing and sale of local food products is the common element among these entrants. Gonzalo San Martín, from NESsT, with Patricio Juelas (on the right), from Sumak Life, during award ceremony...
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Desde FIIS para el mundo.
A minutos de salir con la información de la inscripción en los increíbles charlas que se realizarán en el FIIS S2013 en la página www.fiis.org y con motivo de celebrar y dar “visibilidad” a aquellos...
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NESsT comienza investigación para promover el desarrollo de las empresas de...
NESsT, organización internacional que desarrolla empresas sociales que resuelven problemas sociales críticos en países denominados economías emergentes, fue seleccionada por la Fundación Rockefeller,...
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Nueva publicación: ¿Qué debe ocurrir para que las empresas sociales proliferen?
Muy pronto NESsT publicará los resultados de una exhaustiva investigación sobre la situación de las empresas sociales en economías emergentes. La publicación, titulada “Social Enterprise in Emerging...
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Noticias del Foro Mundial de Emprendimiento Social.
En octubre de 2012, hace exactamente un año, 850 delegados provenientes de 33 países participaron en el “Social Enterprise World Forum 2012” o el Foro Mundial de Emprendimiento Social, que NESsT tuvo...
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Scaling Social Enterprise Impact by Investing at the Early Stage
By Nicole Etchart, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, NESsT The growth of the social enterprise economy in the past two decades is due to its success in addressing entrenched social and economic problems. The...
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Strengthening Social Entrepreneur Business Skills
This summer, social entrepreneurs across the NESsT portfolio participated in hands-on training and networked with business mentors, investors and peers through a series of retreats and workshops. Held...
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Fundatia NESsT Romania angajeaza o persoana interesata de dezvoltarea intreprinderilor sociale pe postul de Enterprise Development Manager pentru biroul nostru din Timisoara. Este un job cu normă...
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NESsT Connects Entrepreneurs with Investors at SOCAP15
One of the greatest challenges cited by early-stage social entrepreneurs is the ability to find investors and secure financing to support their ventures. NESsT’s own research has highlighted how this...
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Retalhar Offers Women in Brazil Dignified Livelihoods
Women in emerging market countries face some of the greatest barriers to earning income to support their families. They are more likely to work in the informal economy, trying to survive with...
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Why Gabriel’s Story Makes Us Smile
There are so many stories we hear from NESsT enterprises about individuals whose lives have been transformed by the opportunity to work in dignified jobs, but Gabriel’s story is one that brought extra...
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Do You Want to Help Transform the Lives of Young People?
One of the reasons NESsT was founded is because we believe that social enterprises have the power to transform lives. By supporting and growing social enterprises, NESsT helps provide dignified jobs...
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Engaged Philanthropy Offers Innovative Solution for Investing in Social Change
By Paul Shoemaker, Founding President, Social Venture Partners International Wherever I travel, it’s clear that communities are confronting big problems. Traditional philanthropy of the...
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Meet the New NESsT
By Nicole Etchart and Loic Comolli, Co-CEOs of NESsT After nearly 20 years of developing social enterprises, our work and our strategy have evolved to encompass so much more than what we ever had...
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We need solutions that transform marginalized communities into protagonists,...
Photo by Barbara Rosner Being an entrepreneur is like cooking. At first glance, we all could try. All we need is access to a great recipe, the ingredients and tools (such as financing, an...
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