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March 27, 2015 | Guestblog

Great Talks and Gourmet Pleasure at SensAbility 2015

Our event partner, Lycka, enriched SensAbility 2015 in several ways – they hosted a workshop, participated in the SocialPitch, took part in the speed dating, and refreshed our minds (and souls) with their tasty frozen yogurt. Felix from Lycka tells you about his experience at #Sens15.

March 19, 2015 | SensList

7 Things You Should Not Miss At SensAbility 2015

Tomorrow is the day – SensAbility will kick off! Two sensy days of socializing, inspiration and refreshing minds lie ahead. What will be the things you absolutely should not miss?

March 17, 2015 | Spotlight

Bio-Zentrale - Organic food .... always a pleasure

With this motto „Bio-Zentrale Naturprodukte GmbH“ started their business in 1976 and now counts amongst the most renowned organic food distributors in Germany. Their brands „biozentrale“, „BIOKIDS“ and „Mühlenbach“ are present in the shelves of numerous German grocery stores. Before Bio-Zentrale distributed their products mainly via specialized trade.

March 16, 2015 | Spotlight

The Engine of Social Entrepreneurship: Ashoka

“Overcoming social grievances” – this is the word-by-word translation of “Ashoka” from ancient-Indian Sanskrit. Our partner Ashoka is known to be the most impactful network in the social entrepreneurship scene today. It connects as much as 3,000 social changemakers around the globe creating idea after idea for making the world a better place.

March 11, 2015 | Spotlight

A Brew of Sunshine: Sonntagmorgen!

When the students Till and Tamer founded Sonntagmorgen in 2007, they did not have any clue about coffee. But Till and his enthusiastic team of 6 people aim to make coffee which is more than normal coffee, and by now they exactly know what they are talking about. Day after day, they work with passion, commitment, and fun to make the world a little bit better with coffee that is made with love.

February 27, 2015 | SensList

6 Best Ways to Approach a Social VC

One of the big hurdles for founders and social entrepreneurs is to get in contact with an investor to fund the business idea. Therefore the main question is: What is the most effective way to contact a social venture capitalist? We ranked the six most common ways for you - from worst to best!

February 13, 2015 | SensList

7 Best Quotes on Social Entrepreneurship

There are a lot of inspirational quotes on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business out there. We put together the best ones for you from persons like Muhammad Yunus, Bill Drayton, and Bill Gates.

February 8, 2015 | Flashback

Muhammad Yunus, Grameen, and the Roots of Social Business

If you are in a conversation about social business, for example during our SensAbility Conference, there is going to be one name you are definitely going to hear: Dr. Muhammad Yunus. We would like to introduce the inventor of the concept of Social Business to you.

January 18, 2015 | SensList

7 Reasons to Involve Yourself in Social Entrepreneurship

More and more entrepreneurs focus on solving a social or environmental problem with their company and therefore opt for the model of Social Business. Are you still skeptical about involving yourself in this trending field? We put the main reasons and arguments together on why you should.

January 1, 2015 | Spotlight

Coffee Circle

„We are convinced that you want to know where your coffee comes from“ –  that is the slogan from Coffee Circle. For every kilogram of coffee sold the company donates 1 Euro to one of the development projects in Ethiopia, which were chosen with the population itself. After buying a kilogram of coffee, the customer can decide which of the projects he/she wants to support.

January 1, 2015 | Spotlight

Peepoople

"Every 15 seconds a child dies due to unsanitary living conditions." Due to this situation, Karin Ruiz founded the Swedish social enterprise Peepoople and has developed together with her team a novel revolutionary toilet-system. With the goal of improving the miserable sanitary condition in poorer regions on our planet, Peepoople set itself the goal to become the Google of the sanitary industry.

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