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Types of global brand partners uniting round global grameen as number
1 global brand partner in sustainability Companies Wiesbaden classification at launch included: Danone Veolia Otto Adidas VW SAP
Autostadt Additional Yunus Centre listing: Intel Others: Whole Foods Health partners include GE, Mayo Clinic, Pfizer, Saudi-German Hospitals | Universities Yunuscentre
list | Banking Foundations Grameen America Grameen Foundation Grameen Carlos Slim Mexico Wholeplanetfoundation Foundations esslsozialpreis.at Nike Foundation – funding Grameen Nursing Institute with content collaborations from Glasgow
Caledonian & Emory | Funds Wiesbaden listing at launch included:Grameen
City FundWiesbaden FundYunus Monaco FundGovernment of Caldas Additional: Danone Communities (ideam) GrameenCreditAgricole Grameen Capital Fund India - mathes funds & social busineses | Place
leaders Wiesbaden
listing at launch included:Governor of CaldasRepublic of AlbaniaCity of Milan City of Wiesbaden | NGOs Meunchen for
Meunchen SSE http://www.socialstockexchange.eu/the-board/default.html | Social Entrepreneurs Wiesbaden List:World
Toilet San Patrignano | Events
Vision Summit WEF | Sports FIFA | Infotech
partners Bankabillion.org Grameen AliBaba announce pathway to China For more see grameensolutions.com and search Grameen Intel | Other including citizens webs TheGreenChildren Pop group –fund raised for 2 replications
of eye hospital – aravind model |
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help us make this list more complete- note its in the nature of partnership that the combinations connecting across columns
is as exciting as the within column benchmarking clubs) Social Business
cases of 2010 Most Worth Debating 3 of 30 Grameen Nurse Institute ; 4 of 30 California Institute of Social Business and
CSUCI; 5 of 30 *Grameen Solutions- These cases are asserted open source property by London Creative Labs and Global Institute of Social Business- these names should be referenced where you repicate it, or discuss how you want to represent it with chris macrae at
yes we can bureau of worldcitizen.tv in Washington DC usa tel 301 881 1655, info @worldcitizen.tv Grameen Nurse Institute -version Nov009 How
Can Universities Help Catalyse Unique Global Social Business Partnerships? Grameen Nurse Institute
is an inspiring, if brand new example of a Social Business, for the world to map, action and learn around. It probably would
never have happened if Dr Yunus hadn’t gone to talk at a University and found that the University and he wanted a lifelong
partnership –well 2 actually! The second partnership is Grameen Bank Glasgow which may become one of our favourite cases
in next years’ annual if it proves to be the first Grameen Europe bank to become a regional benchmark. (references British Council http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/about-us/75th-Anniversary/lecture-series/Muhammad-Yunus/ : BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8134491.stm ) For now we will focus on the story of Grameen
Nurse Institute. It’s a fantastic example of job creation in a sector with rising global demand, and demonstrates how
social business shares out that surplus for all parties integrating around the poorest, and not just for the few who see the
most bucks to make. On driving Dr Yunus to his talk and awards ceremony at Glasgow Caledonian University
, compatriot and university lecturer Dr Zasheem Ahmed asked Dr Yunus whether he knew that Glasgow Caledonian was one of the
largest trainers of nurses for the UK national health Service. Seeing that Dr Yunus looked interested by the remark he asked
why not ask Vice Chancellor to lend you some of Caledonian's trainers in Bangladesh. This has catalysed a chain of partnerships
that less than 10 months later were one of the most inspiring announcements of Clinton Global Initiative 2009. In particular.
Dr Yunus had hunted out Nike Foundation who have branded their focus around Girl Power with extra support from one of Buffett
Family Foundations, Novo. How could they refuse to join in what is probably the truest Girl Power Social Business of them
all. Dr Yunus has long been looking for an opportunity to start up a Free Womens University , a social
business model which as far I know began as a unisex one in South Africa at Cida thanks to founder Taddy Blecher, though it
too quickly attracted girl power supporters in the likes of Oprah Winfree. She wanted the alumni of her own school for girls
to seriously consider graduating at CIDA. Another early fan of CIDA was the entrepreneur who won 2nd prize
in Richard Branson’s tv reality apprentice competition Rebel Billionnaire- her prize being the money to start a girls
charity. Those who know of Branson’s own social business Virgin Unite will see it more or less launched itself out of
CIDA. The Free University model, broadly speaking, offers to train a graduate in some life critical service or practical entrepreneurial
innovation for free. In return, the CIDA graduate commits to spending their next several years serving rural or poorest parts
of the country. So now the partnership of Glasgow Caledonian as a Yunus Centre- one that is now advertising
the world’s first social business chair in health – Nike Foundation and an emerging chain of partners is building
Grameen Nurse Institute. When Dr Yunus won the Nobel Prize he told his friends that health partnerships
would be his big new priority. His social business pop group at the time The Green Children raised a million dollars
which was enough to build 2 replications of the aravind eyecare hospital (started in India – se separate entry). These
facilities were opened within a year of starting up. Dr Yunus also has a social business partnership with a hospital construction
group that helps! However perhaps the most deeply practical dynamic to know about the Grameen Nurse Institute
Plan is that it intends to send its trained nurses to serve at Grameen members rural health insurance branches, and of course
to encourage neighbourhood school girls through peer groups to learn first aid, and perhaps become the next graduates of Grameen
Nurse Institute. Grameen’s Health insurance http://www.grameenkalyan.org branch began in 1992 and still focuses on diagnosing illness and recommending where to go or what pills to take
for the cheapest cure (that part being a co-pay the patient makes). It seems like a good deal to us as Grameen Kalyan is still
quoting Grameen Bank members annual insurances for the family at two dollars in those locations it operates. The main block
to this most economical service in the world of health spreading across rural Bangladesh is trained personnel.
The several hundred current staff of Grameen Kalyan are probably the most productive medical and economics network you will
find anywhere –as always rsvp http://uk.mc273.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@worldcitizen.tv if you spot a candidate for that social business roll of honor All this makes Grameen Nurse Institute likely to
be the best girl power social business on the planet. Especially as Dr Yunus has been making several more partners witch medical
technology companies now that most diagnostics and some procedures can be examined remotely through the net –ie the
top expert doesnt have to be in the field to empower fieldworkers to nurse or doctor. These partnerships will keep on growing
as the head of Grameen America, Vidar Jorgensen, makes his own for profit living with America’s largest heath conferences
http://www.worldcongress.com/ The time I met Vidar he explained that he had a hobby of searching the world for unexpectedly economical healthcare services
and had found where they prepared they were usually connected with a microcredit. So that’s why he himself partnered
Dr Yunus quite a while before the term became prominent when Dr Yunus met up with the social entrepreneurs of Ashoka and Jeff
Skoll’s Oxford world championships, and asked them why not become sustainable as social business entrepreneurs
. Case 4 or 30 California Institute of Social Business/
CSUCI California
has a lot to thanks Dr Yunus for the effort he has put in inviting this state to lead celebrations of internet for the poor
including much of 2007 where his diary of visits read like a who’s who of internet corporations. California’s corporate response has been led by Intel with its partnering of Grameen
Intel the first Global Grameen branded social business partnership in the internet sector. Awards have come from California’s
Museum of Technology . In tracking Yes We Can dialogues of the year, friends of www.yunusforum.net voted this one out of California number 1 for worldwide youth ambassador debates Yunus/ Wales
Dialogue Nov 2008 Jane Wales http://www.itsyourworld.org/wac/Jane_Wales.asp?SnID=59592927 : Dr Yunus- because
you’re the world’s best problem solver I have ever known , I am going to ask you about some of the things that
are in the plate of the next president of the united states. He will come in and he will face
- poverty
including new poverty at home and abroad
- the employment crisis
- the need
to provide quality education for all
- the need to provide affordable healthcare
- post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation
if were you advising the new president, would you urge him to take an integrated
approach or to deal with each independently? Muhammad Yunuswell I can only
tell him of my way at looking at it –first of all if he wants to be serious about poverty – after all, the
president of US is de facto the president of the world, so what he does impacts the whole
world. So when he talka about poverty he provides the leadership that others take. Now we have the millennium goals which are a wonderful set of goals which inspire all the world but
were unfortunately derailed by other things that came up so first of all restore total support for the millennium development
goals and withdraw from other stuff united states got involved in such as war on terror, so concentrate on the one of making sure we achieve the millennium goals, achieve them 100%
this will be a tremendous achievement for the whole world that we have done something its not some of UN goal setting and
forgetting, this is a real goal and a realty to celebrate having done it and then for this president the best
thing is to show total commitment of ending poverty set a new date when the world can be at zero poverty – we have 2015
at halve poverty so why don't we set the next goal zero poverty so that we know this is the direction we need to take, when we set the date
everything else will fall into place:how do you measure, how do
you do it there are several things that will play an important part
1 microcredit because it has shown its effectiveness
in unleashing the capacity of people 2 technology how to bring technology to the poorest people so that they can change their whole
world 3
healthcare so its nothing separated, its integrated but you cant have one organisation doing everything, you need
several organisations but focused so that everything is achieving the same goal to lift the person and as the president is declaring
the date for zero poverty in the whole world at the same time encourage the united states to set their date when their city
be zero poverty when their county gets to zero poverty - if someone says well we have no poverty how do you know if
you have poverty or not –its very simple the first question I ask is do you have a welfare program, a welfare department?
As long as you have a welfare department you have poverty, otherwise why do you have it, poverty means that nobody is on welfare
tat is clear sign so you have to close down your welfare department, find something else for those people to do, so
all the related things you have to welfare you close down as you have crossed that level and you are never going back- city
by city, county by county, state by state, it can be done and it will encourage everyone else – that state can do it, we can do itthis is the way to go, so poverty will be the challenge –and once you have solved poverty other solutions come
right away, environment will come right away- like in the case of bangladesh environment and our survival is an integrated
problem, we are the ones on the front line – eliminated by global climate change because of our flat country, so for
us its such an important issue the united states missed the whole leadership on the global warming issue, never got to the Kyoto protocol
and as a result the whole world got derailed, ..so now is the chance to go back to preparing for the 2012 UN binding
resolution .. that way you n=know where you are the moment government becomes serious , technology starts going in, its not a question
of it cant be done , simply we have to make a serious commitment that we will do it-the moment we make the serious commitment,
technologies will come , how do we replace the things that are causing the problem, replacing them with new technology without
harming anyone in any way the present way of living life in a way which might enjoy life today but may be harming someone else’s
life somewhere on the planet, its not a good feeling: I am doing something that puts someone else life at stake because
of the way I do things – so the basic principle we should all adopt, every child should be taught, every family be taught
my way of living should not harm anyone else , and that’s how I would like to live its possible once you
make that commitment all the environmental problems will be solved |
BEST USA NEWS OF DECADE FOR YES WE CAN We believe this is the first Yunus Centre educational partnership in the whole of the USA has been selected
from the newest of the state universities of California – California State University of the Channel Islands. We asked
the team, one of the few from USA to celebrate the launch of Global Grameen Nov 09 in Wolfsburg Germany, for their latest
news. The official opening of The California Institute of Social Business is at the end of February 2010, and every Yunus
fan is invited. Here is their news note they graciously gave to us to circulate: When CSU Channel Islands President Richard Rush was asked to build a new University in 2002, he committed to ensure that studens are dedicated
to international, multi-cultural, integrative and socially engaged lives. He hired Julia Wilson, a previous director of Grameen
Foundation, early 2008 with the intent of exploring the creation innovative new programs for the young campus. The
California Institute of Social Business was one such program and is slated to launch in Feb 2010 -this is a very
fast moving top level diary of events. July 2008 - Khalid Shams from Grameen Bank came to California to work with our faculty to gain
an understanding of where microfinance had come and how it led to Social Business.
First Quarter 2009: Julia as VP for Advancement led the University academic leaders to Dhaka to brainstorm with
Grameen Bank and Dr Yunus. He thanked her by declaring it was the most joyful time to gain
international recognition for the USA's first University to take Social Entrepreneurship to the next level and build
a program for Social Business.
May 2009,
Professor Yunus visited CSU Channel Islands to meet with faculty and lay the foundation for the work to be done. They
discussed curriculum; research opportunities; the potential of starting a Social Venture fund for capitalizing emerging Social
Businesses; and an annual Social Business Plan Competition to commence September 2010.
Nov 2009: President Rush led a 4-person CSU Channel Islands team - Rush, Wilson, Asish Vaidya
(faculty dean), Larry Janss (board member & CIOSB supporter) - to the first Global Grameen Meeting in Germany where 120+ of the world's most passionate sustainability system designers came to swap
Social Business practice stories and commit to Dr Yunus 2010's Joy of Life goals starting with those Global Brand CEO
partnerships that demonstrate - which global
markets know how to fully value sustainability's upward exponentials and
- which universities are most urgently interested in connecting together the missing curriculum
of sustainability
February 2010: Professor returns to campus to officially launch the California Institute
of Social Business. Thousands of students from all over the region, corporations, community service agencies, the Bangladesh
community and community leaders will all gather to discuss his book "Creating a World without Poverty" and celebrate
a new movement to change the world. Going forward.......raising private partnerships to build a program that fulfills
all objectives of Dr. Yunus and President Rush and the global community. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFayKlhnims is the video that CSUCI shared with the 100+ friends of Dr Yunus at his launch of Global Grameen in November 2009 *Grameen Solutions www.grameensolutions.com case 5 of 30 This is not technically a social business being a for profit but largely
owned by social business partners including a majority shareholding by Grameen. Arguably it is the most exciting investment
majority owned by a microcredit bank. It converges the future of the mobile investments interests that Muhammad Yunus (with
some extremely timely advice from MIT entrepreneurs) began in 1996 when a world bank consultant predicted that only quarter
of a million Bangladeshi’s would ever own mobiles. Dr Yunus invested in Grameen phone getting the mobile franchise at
cents in the dollar- this company’s majority partner is a Norwegian telecom though there has been a dispute about ownership
and whether Grameen has been fully rewarded for its brand equity. Today over 40 million Bangaldeshi’s use mobiles- and
about 4 billion people access digital worldwide via mobile where internet access by computer terminals may be only just over
1 billion. I think it is fair to say that Muhammad Yunus is ever more optimistic that digital technology can sustain
the world where maybe many in NW hemispheres have lost some of the pre-millennium euphoria. It is this attitude of his which
makes me optimistic than in the 2010s we will suddenly start accelerating millennium goal momentum in ways that were last
in the 00s. NW hemispheres have not found that many applications where the value of knowledge multiplies
on all sides even though compared with consumption of physical thin gs the hope of the networking economy as one that can
advance humanity beyond poverty must be based in knowledge’s positive value multipliers Grameen Solutions with
partnership projects eg http://www.bankabillion.org can rightly claim to be a world leader in smart uses of mobiles, and a leading gravity for partners who
believe it is precisely the first network generation than can open source an en d to poverty. The new projects of Kazi Islam,
CEO of Grameen Solutions, are I must confess an area I most look forward to being updated on when I visit Dhaka. When it comes
to using technol0gy to create jobs, I believe the 2 most dramatic entrepreneurs in the world today are
Muhammad Yunus and Jack Ma “I want to help china create 100 million jobs”, Clinton Global 2009) of Ali Baba the
nearest China has to an ebay (with Nilekani of Infosys in India not at all far behind!). One of the best bits of news in 2009
was that they have entered into some job creation social business partnerships – keep searching! Further Reference: Growing Up With 2 Giants- a
prescient leaflet of Yunus written 2006 on National Partnering Strategy for Bangladesh |
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