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Vision Statement:
To be the leading indigenous one stop shop for women in West Africa by 2020
Mission Statement:
To provide quality products and services whilst empowering less privileged women and nourishing impoverished children. Goals/Objectives: The goals of The Hub for the next 5 years are as follows:
The business sold locally fabricated earrings, neck-pieces, cuff-links, brooches, belts, bracelets, bags and shoes.
Per their website, "For over two decades our mission has been clear: to use high quality specialty coffee as a vehicle for progressive change throughout the coffee-growing region of Asia, Africa and the Americas. We do this through activism, ecological responsibility and innovative, direct development programs with our cooperative partners."
From their website: "Prosperity Candle is a social enterprise, designed from the start to do good in the world. We invest in women entrepreneurs to help end poverty. Candles are more than a beautiful product - they can create the opportunity for families to thrive. From pillars made by Iraqi widows, to repurposed glass votives from Haiti, to unique rice bowl candles poured by refugees resettled in the U.S., every candle is handmade by a woman artisan rebuilding her life. Each tells the story of a brighter future for us all."
From their website: "We are committed to promoting human and ecological health by providing people with delicious, nourishing food and by working toward a regional, organic food system. We aim to produce the highest quality, traditional pickled foods available, using natural fermentation. We buy our vegetables only from Northeast family farms and sell our products only within the Northeast. Our ingredients are 100% organic."
From their website: "Squash, Inc. opened for business in 1973 in the early days of the food cooperative movement. Since then we have grown into a full-service distributor of fruits and vegetables, as well as butter, eggs, cheese, and specialty foods. We have never forgotten our roots. A cornerstone of our business remains providing our customers with locally produced products whenever they are available. As responsible corporate citizens of the Pioneer Valley we believe now, as we did then, that it is our job to preserve the strong agricultural tradition that has made Western Massachusetts such a special place to live and work."
The commitment to their mission extends to the way Squash does business. Their customers receive individual and personal attention. Squash is happy to split cases, locate and deliver special products, and offer advice on seasonality and the best deals. They do their own buying from local growers and in the Boston Market. Unlike all the other distributors in Western Massachusetts, they do not use brokers. Their buyers work only for Squash and by extension their customers. For all intents and purposes, all of Squash's customers have their own buyer in the marketplace selecting the finest foods for their table.
OSCARO aims to increase existing car life expectancy by providing affordable spare parts to all and in turn diminish the overall carbon print (approx 200,000 km energy equivalence to make a new car.)
The Green Garage Detroit is a business model that incubates other businesses. It hosts space in ways that are good for the environment, good for the community and economically viable. This fully green model uses 1/10th of the resources and produces 1/10th of the waste compared to traditional businesses.
SapiBagus uses the Internet as a marketing tool to sell cattle products derived from waste, and provides web-based information resources for Indonesian cattle farmers. SapiBagus processes food industrial waste and by-products into a high nutrition cattle feed and processes the waste of cow manure to become a compost fertilizer. SapiBagus regularly conducts a training to share the knowledge, experience, and key success factor in cattle farming business.
Due to the urge to have good waste management in Indonesia, Greeneration Indonesia and ecoBali Recycling established social entrepreneurship under the name Waste4Change in 2013.
Waste4Change offers a comprehensive solution related to the waste issues, supported by professional manpower in the field. With the tagline “Responsible Waste Management,” Waste4Change's mission is to create an Indonesia community that cares about and is responsible for managing their waste.
Indonesia is in shortage of actuaries. Currently, more than 1,000 actuaries are needed while there are only about 400 actuaries in Indonesia. Furthermore, there was no university in Indonesia offering actuarial programs. Hence, Asuransi Jasindo has started an actuarial program in collaboration with the government/regulator (OJK), academics (UGM) and actuarial professionals (Persatuan Aktuaris Indonesia/PAI) to help the supply meet the demand.
Only 5 percent of the Indonesian population is protected by individual life insurance. Prudential Indonesia is trying to decrease the protection gap by providing education to the people of Indonesia, particularly to those who are low-income and illiterate, on how to manage their finances and plan their future to achieve better lives. In several places all over Indonesia, Prudential Indonesia provides Financial Literacy education to women as part of their belief that women play huge part in planning a family’s finances.
Will Harris is nothing short of a true revolutionary in American sustainable farming but he would never claim to be one. If you ask him he will tell you he is a man of “average intelligence.” He will go onto explain, “I’m not being modest. I know a lot about the animals and the land and the people and I study them. I have no idea who won the super bowl, who won the academy awards, but I do study very closely the land, the animals and the people.” It is this unyielding dedication to the living, breathing facets of his hometown, Bluffton, Georgia, that led him down a path to revolutionizing his family farm, White Oak Pastures, by returning it to its pre-industrial agriculture roots.
Mozkalti Group emerged as a community savings account in 2012, in the small village of San Bernardino Chalchihuapan, in Puebla, Mexico, thanks to the restlessness of a recently graduated student, Verónica Ponce Xelhua.
Vero is a 26-year-old woman who participated in UPAEP’s first generation of the program “Apuesta por un futuro” (“Bet for the future”). This program gives scholarships to excellent students from rural communities in the state of Puebla, Mexico, so they can study to obtain a bachelors degree. To obtain the scholarship, students must agree that, once they’ve finished their studies, they have to go back to their communities and apply their knowledge to generate improvements. Vero has a degree from the business school and is currently a MBA student at UPAEP.
This business model produces earnings that are employed to improve the facilities and organization of the group. All decisions that concern the cooperative are made by consensus among the partners. The earnings are also used to expand the functions of the group into other economic activities, generating jobs and increasing the number of contributors.
The main purpose of this organization is to create habits that transform the general thinking of people from this community, so they can develop a self-sustaining community.
TD Canada Trust is initiating a movement by promoting green initiatives in order to fulfill their commitment towards the environment, society, and the planet. Since they are rapidly growing in the industry, they have started making positive impacts in the world such as promoting literacy and numeracy for children, going paperless, pushing for gender inequality, and protecting forest habitats. TD has established and executed these green goals since 2014, paving the way for them to join the Global 100 Sustainable Companies.
Heine Brothers’ is a Kentucky coffee company sells Fair Trade and Organic Coffee because it is good for business while also being good for the planet and the small-scale farmers who grow it.
Heine Brothers’ is a founder of the largest fair trade coffee cooperative in the world. The cooperative enables small coffee businesses to buy organic and fairly traded coffee collectively.
Since opening, Heine Brothers’ has been recycling coffee grounds, paper and plastic products. For 21 years the company has kept thousands of pounds of paper and plastic out of the landfill.
Heine Brothers’ has proven it is possible to do good while making a profit.
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- the most awarded Croatian Start-up with the best innovation in 2015
- solar powered smart bench
- basic and exclusive features
- impact on society, environment, business
Hilton Worldwide, a global hospitality company and a UN Global Compact member, started focusing on sustainability in 2009 and over the course of the past years have been implementing change across their portfolio of hotels for the benefit of those all around the world.
The community based sustainable agriculture through the Organic System of Rice Intensification Program (SRI) has been able to reduce environmental degradation. The agriculture technique uses environmental friendly materials such as organic fertilizer and pesticides coming from community animal waste (cows, goats, and chickens) and local vegetation replacing the chemical fertilizer and pesticides. This method is not only reducing production costs by 60%, as farmers do not have to buy chemical fertilizer and pesticides, but also brings benefit to the environment by creating a cleaner environment and reducing production of methane gas which is the source of greenhouse gas emission that contributes to climate change.
SRI has been able to bring benefits to the smallholder farmers by improving land productivity by 300% from 0.5-2 ton per hectare to 7-8 ton per hectare that leads to the increase of farmers’ income by IDR 15million (USD 1,145) per hectare of land.
Another feature that makes this program successful is the involvement of community / smallholders farmers since the beginning of the program's development. Farmers were involved in the planning process by participating in a workshop to deconstruct obstinacy, develop conceptual ideas on sustainable and environmentally friendly ecosystem management, explain the function and role of organic materials within the ecosystems, and prove their value. In the implementation stage, farmers contributed to the program by providing labour, promoting farmer’s mutual cooperation, and providing cash to buy simple equipment. This has brought strong ownership of the program which is fundamental for program sustainability.