Social Business
Yunus promotes Altanta as City of Peace
[NEWS_IMAGE] Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Atlanta, Georgia from September 27-29, 2014 to lead and participate in the preparatory Gala for World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates 2015 announcing that Atlanta will host the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in 2015. President Jimmy Carter and Professor Yunus are the co-hosts and CNN Founder Ted Turner is the Honorary Chair for the Atlanta Summit. The gala on 28 September evening was attended by 730 political, business and ...
Yunus Opens Microcredit Summit in Mexico
[NEWS_IMAGE]Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the opening ceremony of 17th Microcredit Summit in Merida, Mexico from September 3-5, 2014. The program focused on the theme “Generation Next: Innovations in Micro-finance.” The program was held in Merida, the capital of Yucatan state, located in the heartland of the Mayan civilization with the support of the Ministry of Economy (Mexico) and its national micro-enterprise financing program (PRONAFIM). The Summit was ...
Investment Agreements with Four (4) new Nobin Udyoktas
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Sunday, 7th September 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with four (4) Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the fifteenth (15th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to One Hundred and Twelve (112). These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses or scale up existing ones. Grameen Telecom Trust unde...
Investment Agreements with Five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas
On Sunday, 31st August 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the fourteenth (14th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to One Hundred and Eight (108). These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses or scale up existing ones. Grameen Telecom Trust under its Nobin ...
Investment Agreements with Five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas
On Sunday 18th August 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the thirteenth (13th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to One Hundred and Four (104). These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses or scale up existing ones. Grameen Telecom Trust under its Nobin Ud...
25TH SOCIAL BUSINESS DESIGN LAB HELD AT YUNUS CENTRE
[NEWS_IMAGE]The 25th Social Business Design Lab took place on August 23, 2014 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium, participated by around 100 representatives of national and international organizations. At the 25th design lab, six new social business plans were presented. These included four Nobin Udyokta projects, businesses launched by young entrepreneurs who are the children of Grameen Bank families. The ones selected for presentation were Sumaiya Poultry Feed & Medicine Corner, a business on...
Investment Agreements with Three (3) new Nobin Udyoktas
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Sunday 18th August 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the twelfth (12th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to ninety nine (99). These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses or scale up existing ones. Grameen Telecom Trust under its Nobin Ud...
Employee Induction and Social Business Training
On Tuesday, 13th August, 2014, a Social Business Training and Employee Induction program was held for the new employees of Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) at the Social Business Learning Centre (Level 5 of GTT premises). This arrangement was made to provide an introduction to the innovative concept of Social Business and the HR and Administrative policies. The induction was conducted by Head of HR & Administration, Team Leader, Social Business & Program Support and Manager, Social B...
Meeting with Representatives from TMSS
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Dr. Hosne-Ara Begum (Executive Director, TMSS) visited Grameen Telcom Trust (GTT) corporate office with other representatives from TMSS, to learn about the concept of social business. The meeting was presided by Ms. Parveen Mahmud (Managing Director, GTT). Members of the social business team from GTT were also present at the meeting. Dr. Begum mentioned that TMSS was already running few projects which are similar to the social business model. She...
Investment Agreements with Three (3) new Nobin Udyoktas
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Saturday 9th August 2014 & Sunday 11th August 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with three (3) new Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the tenth (10th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to ninety four (94). [NEWS_IMAGE] These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses...
Yunus Invited to Launch Social Business by Palermo Mayor
[NEWS_IMAGE]Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited by Senator Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo to meet him at the Mayor’s office Villa Niscemi in Sicily's capital on August 7, 2014. The President of the Municipal Council Salvatore Orlando and the President of the Council of cultures Adham Darawsha attended in the meeting among others. Mayor, already well informed about the concept of social business, wants to launch a social business to address the problem of youth unemployme...
Yunus Addresses Youth at Europe’s Largest Music Festival
[NEWS_IMAGE]Professor Yunus addressed a massive audience of European youth at the Woodstock Festival of Poland, the biggest open-air music festival in Europe which is held from July 31- August 2. The festival drew over half a million young people. In his address to the young people, Professor Yunus said "You can see the flaws of the system more clearly, than those in the older generation, because your minds are still “free" to observe things. Older minds have gotten so used to the w...
High-Level Dialogue between Yunus and Myanmar Ministers
[NEWS_IMAGE] On final day of his three day visit to Myanmar, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus travelled to Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, to address ministers, senior government officials, and members of parliament about the role of social business in the development of Myanmar. He was received at the conference venue by two Union Ministers U Tin Naing Thein and U Soe Thein. They are referred to as 'super ministers' since each them oversees five or six ministries and based in the P...
Yunus and Aung San Suu Kyi discuss People-Centric Economy for Myanmar
[NEWS_IMAGE] [Photo Caption: Nobel Peace Laureates Professor Muhammad Yunus and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi hold up a peace sign together, as their message to the world during their meeting in Yangon on Saturday. (Photo: L. Morshed, Yunus Centre)] Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived in Yangon on Saturday for a three day visit to Myanmar at the invitation of British Council in Myanmar. Professor Yunus is invited to speak to members of the government, civil society and business community ab...
Investment Agreements with Five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas
[NEWS_IMAGE] On Monday, July 14th, 2014, Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT), signed investment agreements with five (5) new Nobin Udyoktas(NU) (New Entrepreneurs). This was the ninth (9th) batch of Nobin Udyoktas signing investment agreements with GTT and this takes the total number of NU projects signed to ninety one (91). These aspiring entrepreneurs are all children of Grameen Bank families who plan to start new businesses or scale up existing ones. Grameen Telecom Trust under its Nobin Udy...