History of the Foundation The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded by.

History of the Foundation

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.

It was founded by Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde in 1998 to highlight and encourage men, women and organizations dedicated to creating opportunities for others in directly productive ways.

Klaus Schwab is the President and Founder of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum is a global community of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world through economic and social development.

Message from the Founders

"This Foundation has been a dream of ours for many years. My belief always has been that in the

end, economic and social progress can only be achieved through entrepreneurship of all kinds. The Foundation enables us to encourage and foster entrepreneurs working for the public

interest - to support them and provide them with access and funding to an international platform for

experience exchange that they might otherwise lack.

Mission

The Schwab Foundation provides a global platform to promote social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effective manner.

Objectives

1.To be the foremost organization for identifying, selecting and highlighting accomplished social entrepreneurs at the regional and global levels, stimulating productive linkages between them.

2.To be a driving force that builds a global community of outstanding social entrepreneurs and others interested in promoting social entrepreneurship, leveraging successes of social entrepreneurs to achieve wider impact for the public good.

3.To be the preferred partner for companies and social investors seeking to support social entrepreneurs around the world.

4.To be a global standard bearer for excellence in social entrepreneurship and innovation for the public good.

Irupana- Bolivia

• Irupana works with 1,700 indigenous farming families across Bolivia, buying certified organically grown produce directly from them, cutting out the middleman. Irupana produces and distributes 80

products including coffee, tea, bread, honey, marmalades, chocolate, dried fruits, a variety of cereals, to 18 Irupana stores and 300 outlets that stock Irupana foodstuffs, including large supermarkets. Approximately 4,000 customers a day buy its products. Organic goods sell at higher prices as they are targeted to middle and upper income consumers, allowing Irupana to

• pay prices to farmers that are about 25% higher than non-organic produce. Javier Hurtado, Irupana’s founder, encourages the farmers with whom he works to keep a portion of their harvest, thus improving

• their own families' nutrition. Hurtado employs knowledge of organic agriculture and high standards of production to create a product that will command a premium price. Last year, Irupana’s sales

• expanded by 32% despite the economic downturn in the region. Irupana has begun to secure international markets, and just signed a contract with a German buyer to supply 180 tons of Irupana’s cereals over the next three years.

Waste Concern- Bangladesh

By promoting the concept of waste as a resource and emphasizing on the marketing aspect of organic waste, Waste Concern is causing a chain reaction among multiple sectors in Bangladesh. Working in partnership with communities, Waste Concern has set in motion a process for house-to-house solid waste collection that is then taken to community-based composting plants to turn the waste into organic fertilizer. Waste Concern arranges for fertilizer companies to purchase and nationally market the compost-based enriched bio-fertilizers it produces. Waste Concern thus provides jobs for urban poor that collect the waste and work in the local plants and stimulates behavioural changes in urban communities and the waste management industry. In addition, Waste Concern helps to address the environmental problem of diminishing topsoil fertility due to the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in Bangladesh. At present, 30,000 people are benefited from Waste

Concern’s project in Dhaka.

ASAFE -Cameroon

Gisèle Yitamben's Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui a la Femme Entrepreneur (ASAFE) is providing business training and development services, alternative financing and access to e-commerce to support thousands of women entrepreneurs in Cameroon, Guinea, Benin, Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today, ASAFE is actively engaged with technology companies and business incubators to help African entrepreneurs

overcome the digital divide.

IDEAAS - BRAZIL Fabio Rosa has pioneered systems to

provide electricity to hundreds of thousands of impoverished rural Brazilians. His widely-replicated Palmares Project established the standard for low-cost electricity transmission in rural Brazil, reducing costs to consumers by more than 90 percent. Today, Rosa is spreading innovative "agro-electric" solutions that combine photo-voltaic solar energy, electric fencing, and improved farming and grazing systems to simultaneously combat poverty, land degradation and

global warming.

ApproTEC- Kenya and Tanzania,

ApproTEC seeks to develop a significant middle class in Africa by stimulating the growth of a thriving entrepreneurial sector. Beginning with Kenya and Tanzania, it seems well on its way to attaining that goal. ApproTEC creates new businesses and jobs by developing and promoting new low-cost technologies that are bought and used by local entrepreneurs to establish profitable small businesses. By identifying, developing and marketing technologies with a high benefit-cost ratio, ApproTEC enables poor but industrious individuals to play an effective role in the market economy, substantially increasing their incomes and creating jobs and a host of backward and forward linkages. By July 2002, over 28,000 pieces of ApproTEC-designed machines and tools had been purchased in East Africa. Today over 500 new pieces are sold every month. Local entrepreneurs have used these tools to start over 24,000 new small enterprises, create over 25,500 new jobs and generate over US$30 million a year in new profits and wages. Between them, they already generate over 0.5% of Kenya's GDP

Duck Revolution- Japan

Takao Furuno has developed and disseminated a sustainable, integrated organic rice and duck farming system that significantly increases yields and has been replicated in tens of thousands of locations across Asia. Rather than using chemical inputs, Furuno introduces ducks into rice paddies to fertilize and strengthen rice seedlings and protect them from pests and weeds. This process boosts farmers' incomes and decreases their work load, while reducing environmental damage and

increasing food security.

Rubicon Programs -USA

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The Big Issue - Scotland

The Big Issue in Scotland, co-founded by Mel Young and Tricia Hughes, is a weekly street paper sold by homeless people in Scotland. Based on the philosophy of providing a hand up, not a hand out, its homeless vendors receive 60% of the cover price for each sale. Featuring a mix on hardhitting current affairs and lively critiques on art and entertainment. The Big Issue in Scotland sells 50,000 a week with a readership of 255,000 and is most popular amongst 15 to 24 year olds. Its popularity has demonstrated the viability of publications that blend social and business objectives. Building on the success of Big Issue in Scotland, Young helped launch a global association - International Network of Street Papers (INSP) - to provide support to 50 similar street papers in 30 countries across five continents. Young is

currently President of INSP.

The official Homeless World Cup Programme 2004

The streetpaper editors of "Faktum" Gothenburg have directed all of their creativeness to produce this special edition. A stunning presentation of 30 teams worldwide. Plus everything you need to know around the Homeless World Cup in the city centre of Gothenburg, 25.07.-01.08.2004

The official Homeless World Cup Programme 2004

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