Social Business
86th Social Business Design Lab Held: Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship
[NEWS_IMAGE] The 86th Social Business Design Lab took place today 22 June 2015 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium. About 150 participants and observers, from national and international organizations with diverse background attended the program, including a large number of international visitors.The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. He opened the lab with welcoming remarks to the audience including those tuning in via live stream. Professor Yunus explained the process...
Sixth Social Business Day Held with Focus on Youth Unemployment
The 6th annual Social Business Day organized by Yunus Centre held today, May 28, 2015 with the theme of “We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers—Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship” at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), Dhaka. The event hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was attended by more than 1600 participants, among them over 250 international participants from 30 countries. Professor Muhammad Yunus gave the keynote speech. In his s...
Social Business Day 2015
Youth Unemployment will be the Theme of Sixth Social Business Day[NEWS_IMAGE] The 6th annual Social Business Day organized by Yunus Centre will be held on May 28, 2015 with the theme of “We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers—Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship” at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), Dhaka. The gathering is organised every year as an opportunity to meet, connect, had have discussion among with the global social business community with...
FT: ONE OF SIX BUSINESS PIONEERS IN FINANCE OF ALL TIME
[NEWS_IMAGE] Financial Times chose Professor Muhammed Yunus as one six Finance Pioneers of all time. In the March 31, 2015 issue in an article entitled "Business Pioneers in Finance" Professor Yunus has been placed alongside Warren Buffett, Amadeo Giannini, Henry Kravis, John Pierpont Morgan, and Mayer Amschel Rothschild as greatest business finance pioneers of all time. The article describes how financial innovation seems to be all around us today yet, it’s not only technology that shapes...
7th Global Social Business Summit to be hosted in Berlin
7th Global Social Business Summit to be held on 5-6 November 2015 in Berlin The annual event is organized by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and his Creative Advisor Hans Reitz, which gathers experts from private sectors, civil society, governments and academia over a few days of meetings, forums and workshops. Social business has become an important driver in turning unemployment into entrepreneurship in many countries globally. “We all know about the frustrating...
Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) with Mr. Sarkar Ardhendu
Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) signed Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) with Mr. Sarkar Ardhendu (Ripon) on Monday 16th March, 2015 at 61st Social Business Design Lab, held at Grameen Bank Auditorium. The ceremony was presided over by Chairman of Grameen Telecom Trust, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Ms. Parveen Mahmud (Managing Director, GTT) & Mr. Sarkar Ardhendu (Ripon) signed the agreement on behalf of Grameen Telecom Trust and the managing partners. GTT and Mr. Sarkar Ardhendu (Ripon...
GMN Door to Door service for the rural people
To implement social business in the society, GMN act as a medium for the development of underprivileged people with new products hand to hand. The local village women display the GMN products to the people. They aim to sell these products which are not available in the rural area....
Growing selling of Insecticide Treated Mosquito Net (ITN) Ashcarjo Moshari
Peoples of the village & city at the end of the winter are leaving just the blanket and gradually going to be busy in the spring happiness. Besides continued the increase of mosquito annoyance. Feels necessity of setting a mosquito net. So the people at the root level and same as in the towns are searching for the "Grameen BASF 'Wonder Mosquito net’" (Ashcarjo Moshari) from GMN. Ashcarjo Moshari is a type of mosquito net what has been mixed the Fendozine of BASF German Chemical Co., ...
Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) with Red Worm Vermicompost
Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) is currently engaged in various social business projects to uplift prevailing socio- economic conditions. On Saturday (20-12-14), at the 41st Yunus Centre Social Business Design Lab, held at the Grameen Bank Auditorium, GTT signed Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) with Red Worm Vermicompost. The ceremony was presided over by Chairman of Grameen Telecom Trust, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Ms. Parveen Mahmud (Managing Director, GTT) & Mr. Sazzad Hossa...
Giant Chinese Internet Company Joins Hands with Grameen China
Yunus Centre Press ReleaseDateL 22nd December 2014 [NEWS_IMAGE] Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited China from 15 December to 19 December 2015. He was invited to launch Grameen China and attend a number of high-level events organized by the Chinese Association of Microfinance (CAM). On December 15, Professor Yunus was the chief guest at the annual microcredit conference organized by CAM which was attended by 700 microcredit practioners, academics, policy makers, company...
New Social Businesses from the 41st Social Business Design Lab
[NEWS_IMAGE] The 41st Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 20 December 2014 at the Grameen Bank Bhaban. As before the half day long program was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, and brought together more than 130 participations from Bangladesh and abroad coming from diverse backgrounds. The event was also live streamed by Yunus Centre and watched online by participants around the globe. Professor Yunus welcomed the participants to the ...
Global Social Business Summit concludes in Mexico City
[NEWS_IMAGE] The Global Social Business Summit took place in Mexico City from 27-28 November 2014. It was inaugurated by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on the morning of 27 November at Expo Bancomer convention centre in Mexico City.Professor Yunus made a keynote speech highlighting that we need new way to think about changing the world, that change will come about through small actions, and repeating those actions to reach scale. He said the Summit was an opportunity for us to sha...
Yunus to inaugurate Global Social Business Summit 2014 in Mexico
The Global Social Business Summit 2014 will take place from 25-28 November in Mexico City. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will together inaugurate the Summit.The motto of this year's Summit is will be "Shaping Social Business - To Shape the World of 2020", to set an impetus for the social business movement in Mexico, Latin America and the whole world. Mexico City as hosting city will mark the first time that the Global Social Business Summ...
Investment Agreements with Five (5) Nobin Udyokta
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Sunday, 16th November 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with five Nobin Udyoktas. This was the twenty fourth (24th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas’ signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to One Hundred and Thirty Six (136). Grameen Telecom Trust under its Nobin Udyokta program is providing assistance to the new entrepreneurs through investments and other ancillary services. ...