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They received considerable media coverage during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa from, among others, their trustee Henry Winter. [6] They were back in the news in 2011, criticising Hyundai ’s donation of 1 million footballs to Africa as being environmentally unsuitable and undermining local enterprise.
Self Help Africa merged with Gorta, in July 2014, and was known for a period as Gorta-Self Help Africa. In 2021, the organisation merged with the UK-based international non-governmental organization (INGO), United Purpose. Self Help Africa also owns a number of social enterprise subsidiaries - Cumo Microfinance, TruTrade and Partner Africa.
This is an annotated list of social enterprises sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article, in alphabetical order. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters: For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support ...
Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS) is an African non-governmental initiative launched in 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. [1] ASIS is co-convened by the United Nations in Nigeria and Sterling One Foundation alongside other private sector and development organizations. It is a convening for inclusive development that provides an opportunity for ...
A social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership for profit or non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organisation, a disregarded entity (a form of business classification for income tax purposes in the United States), [5] a social business, a benefit corporation, a community ...
This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. [ 1 ] For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations .
Equatorial Guinea has enjoyed some of the highest growth rates in the world (37% a year on average in the past 10 years), based largely on its oil sector. With an economy 20 times bigger than it was in the mid-90s, the government can now afford to start expanding its social programs, especially as tremendous inequality means that despite a $14,941 average GDP per capita ($30,000 according to ...