Coat Design Saves Lives and Launches New Careers for Homeless People
Empowerment Plan is a nonprofit aimed at helping countless homeless people find jobs. To combat the country's homeless crisis, the Plan hires homeless people and teaches them how to make coats for...more

India Top-Most Country for Presence of Social Entrepreneurs
According to a new report, social entrepreneurs, in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, have distributed USD$6.7 billion in loans or value of products and services....more

Here's How to Invest in Baltimore's Neglected Neighborhoods
In a commentary by Eric K. Hontz, senior program officer at The Center for International Private Enterprise, it focuses on how Baltimore residents and neighborhoods can break the cycle of poverty and...more

Startups Can Play a Role in Social Change
Eugene Coetzee discusses the role that tech startups can play in helping solve unemployment. According to Coetzee, his own startup, Jobbie which he co-founded, is no exception. Coetzee writes...more

How Social Entrepreneurs Have Improved The Lives Of Millions
Hilde Schwab, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, writes how they have founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship 20 years ago, where they saw in...more

Hong Kong Social Entrepreneur Pitches Rental Affordability Solution for Vancouver
Light Be, a Hong Kong for-profit company that aims to achieve social outcomes, connects needy applicants with discount rentals, but terms of arrangement clash with B.C. law. Social entrepreneur...more

Social Enterprise Wins Funding to Get Vulnerable Women Back into Work and Education
Women's Business Station, a new social enterprise in Dundee, received £10,000 funding from the Government's Tampon Tax Community Fund for a project aimed at empowering women supported by four Dundee...more

Aiding Future Philanthropists
Grade 12 or first-year post-secondary students are offered a $1,000 scholarship from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) local chapter. The goal of the scholarship is to promote future...more

How Climate Change, Millennials and Tainted Donors are Impacting Philanthropy
In a Johnson Center's 2020 11 Trends in Philanthropy report, it analyzes upcoming and developing issues in the nonprofit industry. According to the report, millennials will make up more than half...more

20 Accelerators, Incubators for African Startups to Apply for in 2020
A Ventureburn startup news features 20 accelerators, incubators for African startups to apply for in 2020. There are now a number of programmes that are not only based on the continent, but...more