Welcome to INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship
 
INSEAD's Social Entrepreneurship Alumni Reunion.. Register now!

The annual ISEP Alumni Conference & Reunion will take place in Paris on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June 2009. The event will be launched with an opening reception on Thursday evening 25th June. A full-day public conference will take place on Friday for INSEAD Alumni, social entrepreneurs business and community leaders and the general public. It will include speakers, panels, workshops and plenty of opportunities for networking with leading innovators in the field. Saturday will be devoted to the annual ISEP member sessions and workshops. Read more...

 
APOPO wins Skoll Award!
APOPO trains “sniffer” rats to save human lives. It developed an innovative technique to train giant East African pouched rats to use their keen sense of smell to detect landmines. Apopo then extended the training so that rats would be able to detect TB bacteria in human sputum samples. Their work has been recognised through numerous honours, most recently with a 2009 Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award. Read more...
 
The Skoll World Forum wraps up in Oxford

The “long tail” of the largest gathering of social entrepreneurs brought many leading ISEP alumni together with other leading innovators, academics and funders. Over 700 delegates from more than 60 countries spent three exhilarating days together at the Said Business School at Oxford University. You can see and be a part of it by checking out the videos, blogs and Tweets on the Forum Web Site. Follow links at the bottom for plenaries, workshops and discussions. Read more...

 
Social Entrepreneur Focus: CID Consulting

On the outskirts of Cairo sits Mokattam Hills where the Zabbaleen –or garbage people – live. The streets are heaped high with solid waste. But the huge piles have been sorted into plastics, textiles, and glass. Greater Cairo’s 60,000 Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community of formerly landless and unemployed peasants who migrated to the capital 50 years ago, gather one third of the city’s 10,000 tons of daily garbage. Laila Iskandar has worked with the Zabbaleen since 1982, introducing innovative social and environmental initiatives that have included recycling as much as 80% of the inorganic waste into raw materials and manufactured goods – plastics, rugs, pots, paper and glass. As a result, garbage collectors have begun to break the cycle of poverty. Read more...

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Social Entrepreneurship Programme: In the business of positive change!

In response to growing demand, INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP) was expanded to both our Singapore and Fontainebleau campuses. 62 accomplished, inspired and energetic social entrepreneurs from five continents, representing 31 different nationalities completed this year’s. Each one brought their own vision of how to change the world through social entrepreneurship and now bring a new dynamism to the ISEP Network.

The dates for ISEP in 2009 are:
France: 16-20 November in Fontainebleau
Singapore: 30 November-4 December
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Unique projects for meaningful change

International Development Field Projects (IDFP) course offers participants a unique opportunity to undertake a real 16-week project for a client organization. Impactful, social and economic change is at the heart of these remarkable projects. Students challenge their project design, planning and management skills through practical experience. The current economic climate and the fast moving environment has increased the need for MBA’s with experience in regions that are under-developed economically. Projects prop osed are specific to the client organizations’ needs (both companies and NGOs) and a priority they have identified. INSEAD MBA's have already contributed to the launch and scaling up of some of the most exciting new social and business ventures through these projects. Read more…

 
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Messages from the Directors
 

Filipe Santos

Portugal

Academic Director

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Hans Wahl

America/Austria

Executive Director

Member Directory
Updated list of all ISEP members

Newsletter

INSEAD's monthly newsletter on Social Entrepreneurship

Photo Gallery

Social Entrepreneurship events in the picture

Calendar of Events

Dates of upcoming Social Entrepreneurship events

Social Entrepreneurship in the News!

By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs Over 300 social entrepreneurs have applied to be one of twenty social entrepreneurs who will win a full scholarship (worth US$25,000) to attend the 2009 Global Social Benefit Incubator in California.

New Social Entrepreneurs Fund launched by Bridges Ventures

Bridges Ventures today announces the launch of the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund, a new fund dedicated to investment in social enterprises.

Identifying and Developing Top Talent - What sets some social entrepreneurs apart? Seth Green helps you understand how to evaluate social entrepreneurs and their work.

Dabba Telecom wins Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award!

Last week in Berlin at a Forum on Social Entrepreneurship hosted by German venture capital company Hasso Plattner Ventures, Rael Lissoos and Dabba won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award.

ISEP Grad Wins Young Ideas Change the Country Award and continues to be inspired by the INSEAD SE course.

ISEP Graudate, Sadaffe Abid, honoured as a "Woman on the front lines of Microfinance" by the Grameen Foundation

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Tracking 'Social Entrepreneurs' Gets Easier

The Portfolio Data Management System, to be unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative summit, may help channel capital to do-gooders.

The Age of Ambition

Faces of Social Entrepreneurship

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Social Entrepreneurship is Hot, but Finding Funding Still a Challenge