Category: Social Entrepreneurship
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ADMU-DS and ACSent Train Consuelo Foundation Partners
The Development Studies Program and the Ateneo Center for Social Entrepreneurship conducted a five-day social entrepreneurship training for Consuelo Foundation partners from February 4 to 8, 2012 at the Ateneo de Manila University. At the end of the five-day workshop, the participants were able to come up with workable ideas for social enterprises. The first…
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SEDPI Chairperson Speaks at First Liwanag Worldfest
Through Initiatives Organizing and Networking (MISSION) is the organizer of the Liwanag World Festival on Creativity and Sustainability. The first Liwanag Worldfest was held on January 29 to February 2, 2013, at the Philippine Women’s College in Davao City. The event showcased brilliant, heart-centered initiatives in all dimensions of sustainability: ecological, economic, cultural, political, societal,…
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SEDPI Fosters the Season of Sharing
Annually, Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Incorporated (SEDPI) celebrates Christmas season through a series of activities that aim to give back to communities in simple yet meaningful ways. SEDPI’s 2011 Christmas celebration was started with an afternoon spent with the orphans and street children living at Tanglaw House of the Virlanie Foundation. The activity – which…
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Social Entrepreneurship: A New Way of Doing Business
The League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) held its tenth Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expo last July 20-21, 2011 at the SMX Convention Center. With this year’s theme “Taking CSR to New Heights”, they gathered heads of different leading corprations and foundations in the country to share how they enable their businesses to make strategic social…
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Ateneo Sets Up Four Training Hubs for Microfinance
The Ateneo Microfinance Capacity Building Program (ADMU-MCBP) recently set up four training hubs in Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Dipolog. The establishment of the training hubs is part of the programs overall strategy of bringing capacity building services closer to microfinance institutions. The training hubs make microfinance training courses available and more accessible to…
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SEDPI and i-Genius Deliver Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship
Social enterprise is experiencing a meteoric rise in interest and relevance in the Philippines and the rest of the world. It is an entirely new way of working, a way of creating a new sort of wealth and most of all, a way of changing people and the world. It is not an easy route…
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SEDPI Clinches 2 Projects and Conducts 6 Training Events in March
SEDPI was able to clinch two projects from two international organizations – Mercy Corps and Microfinance Opportunities. Mercy Corps commissioned SEDPI to conduct financial education for remittance senders training to Overseas Filipino Workers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in cooperation with Western Union Foundation. On the other hand, Microfinance Opportunities commissioned SEDPI to conduct module…
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SEDPI Holds Ten Training Events in February
The month of February was fruitful for the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. A total of 10 training events were delivered for the month. Of the training events conducted, six are customized; one is conducted under the Ateneo-BPI partnership; one new training is introduced in Ateneo; and two are conducted in the Netherlands. A total…
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SEDPI Conducts 94 Training Events in 2008
In 2008, SEDPI’s delivery of trainings increased by 27% from 74 training events in 2007 to 94. The increase in training events was due to the continued patronage of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation to conduct training to their management staff in Africa. At the same time, the Ateneo-BPI…
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Linking Up with CORDAID
SEDPI and SCCI have signed cooperation agreements with Cordaid, one of the largest NGOs in the Netherlands. The SEDPI-Cordaid partnership has four components: l The Capacity Building for Small and Emerging Microfinance Institutions seeks to improve the financial performance and organizational sustainability of small and emerging MFIs. Participating MFIs will be given the tools and techniques…