The Global Institute of Social Business aims to help compile essential maps of microeconomics - eg Micromap Series 1 = social business stockmarkets or funds
endorsed by significant patrons such as royal families or CEOs of Global Brand Leaders
We
also maintain definitions of Institute of Social Businesses relevant to editing the Yunus Journal of Social Business
The purpose of Yunus Institute of Social Business
(Type 1 - eg Glagow University ) is to network 2010s urgency for a complete review of every module
that a university or business school teaches impacting sustainability of globalisation- be this systems practice review economic,
social, natural, cross-cultural or human- who's
been collaborating & calling for such a review?. This is similar to the review that Kalam called for in Indi9a during his last year of Presidency.
33 years ago my dad, identified as "unacknowledged giant" in an obituary in The Economist June 2010 started debating with entrepreneurs and anyone who might be interested
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html why the 2010s would be humanity's most exciting decade - the one where the competences of networking
youth would exponentially determine whether the globalisation that worldwide leaders and democratic peoples spin
sustains future generations or not. http://erworld.tv Apart from the urgent timeline, this is not a new debate for anyone who has studied either system-practice
experts like Gandhi or system theory experts like Einstein (both of whom cross-checked each others labours and logics) but
in 2010 it shocks me how many people I meet say "why is it that nobody ever told me this was a debate of world changing
- if not world ending - maginitude".
Today the person most famous for celebrating this debate, as far as dad or I can search, is Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus whom I have met 13 times including 4 visits to his most
wonderful co-workers (see our videos http://yunus10000.com or ask for 8 hours of transcripts) in his offices situated in the Mirpur slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh .
This web is dedicated both to my dad (probanly one of the most remarkble microeconomists of his generation) and Muhammad Yunus. It tries to guide you to links to practice networks of dr yunus (and
those who hve summited round him since 1997 http://www.microcreditsummit.org with extraordinary goals like reaching 100 million familes in less than decade with solutions to ending the most extreme poverty
that a child can be born into).
Should you (or young people you know) wish to explore whether
2010s is indeed the most exciting decade to be alive, please contact me Chris.Macrae@yahoo.co.uk , www.isabellawm.com association of family foundations - skype isabellawm ; office washington dc (1) 301 881 1655
Top 20 Social Businesses to Know in 2010: Microcredit
: 1 Grameen, 2 BRAC, 3 Jamii Bora (Kenya) Health 4 Grameen Nursing College. 5 Grameen Kalyam, 6 Aravind & GreenChildren Grameen Eyecare ,Jobs 7 Grameen Employment Agency, Energy 8 Grameen Shakti (Energy) , Media 9 Cinepop (Mexico), 10* The-Hub.net (london & 50 capitals) , 11 Danone
Communities , IT 12* Grameen Phone IT, 13 Grameen Intel,
14 Nutrition & Greatest Transformation of Global Brand Leadership Grameen Danone ; Water 15 Naandi, .. 16 Grameen Veolia, Financial Services 17 Grameen
Credit Agricole, Industrial Park 18 BASF Grameen, 19 Otto Grameen,
20 Grameen Fibreglass, -notes & discussion ; rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv to nominate SBfor us to research for potential 2011 top 20 - discuss GIOSB at the SB club of ementor associated with the presidential summit of entrepreneurship
This
web has a double purpose:
to map Institutes of Social Business which are emerging as University partnerships with Dr
Yunus all over the world - eg the capital Glasgow http://grameeneconomicslab.com/ nearest the origins of my family tree over the last 200 years.
to offer each year in this decade a top 20 cross-section
of social business designs being mathematiclly congruent to the missing system design of sustainability that my father's 1976 survey of Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist 25 December invited people sans frontieres to
search out, collaborate in social actions and celebrate with joy. Many of these SB are inspired by Yunus but we also delight
in looking out for SB's that he may wish he had conceived!
Compare dad's last articlehttp://yunusforum.net/?p=80 on the compound risks of global financial services as big bang has viciously compounded citizens into debt
and investment bubbles for nigh on a quarter of a century with the 3 safest and most economical bankings systems including
two from Micro Bangla!: Grameen which invests in the productivity of the pooerst vilage mums in rural villges in such a
way tht they reinvest in sustining community and their next generation; BRAC which redesigns entire rural industry sectors
eg poultry -to be owned in trust for nd by those who work in it thereby stucturing optimal wages for each
of the component jobs; Jamii Bora in kenya which has extended microcredit to mobile youth in semi-urban slum areas- here
the loyatly shown in repayment of loans is built by the segments of young people themselves - eg the former male
thieves see starting up small buinesses as their last chance of life as go the sector of girls who would otherwise
have been prostitutes or abused.
A Social Business System is transparently mapped round a more
purposeful (life enhancing) goal than has ever beeneconomicallycompounded before. The Three in one map of a social business system integrates
1 Multi-win productivity system design
2 Innovation through a conflict situation including all compound drivers -eg cultural, investment
and constitutional transformations required
2 Example Innovation through conflict by and forBangladesh peoples of1970s:
Rural women were must underemployed., least resourced and abused population segment
on planet- one of the world's worst ever cases of poverty as a top-down broken system trapping both women and children of
their next generation
Bank for poor required multiple cultural changes and a constitutional
one which was implemented just in time (Bangladesh Law 1983) for the whole country's continuous generation to enjoy an entrepreneurially
different compound future from top-down post-colonial government and the aid systems governments take their toll on.
THE OPEN WORLDWIDE CONSEQUENCE: TIME
IS NOW FOR MAPPING ECONOMICS OF YOUTH
From
this innovation microeconomists were able to correct macroeconomic errors and change globalisation just in time to make 2010s
the most exciting decade - the one when youth returned "whole truth" sustainability goals to be the cross-cultural
consciousness of media and knowledge replication valued and actioned by the net generation.
Nobel
Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow signed
a historic agreement of mutual cooperation on the 4th of July. The agreement whose legal terms were defined in a memorandum
of understanding details a first of a kind historic collaboration between the University of Glasgow and the Yunus Centre,
with a view to developing academic and educational cooperation and promoting the understanding of Social Business. Both parties
will encourage cross cultivation of ideas and collaboration between academic and administrative staff on commonly defined
projects, lectures and academic symposia and promote the exchange of skills and information through staff exchange and training
programmes. The agreement also made provision for the possibility of creation of intellectual property such a business plans,
brands and concrete exercise of such, sharing equally the financial benefits of such activity. Currently valid for 5 years,
it is anticipated that this collaboration will be long term
. .public documents
of the California Institute of Social Business at CSUCI, CA
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... SP 09-05: California Institute of Social
Business. -D. Downey summarized the proposal for everyone, stressing that funding would come from external sources.
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... Vote taken on motion to move to a second reading.
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of Social Business getting started. ii. I volunteered at last week’s Block Party. ... studentgov.csuci.edu/documents/minutes/2010/m030210.pdf
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Latest from Kyushu
Social Business Hub for Asia
Japan's Fukuoka city mayorteams upwith Yunus
The Daily Star CorrespondentMonday, July 19, 2010
Japan has established asocial business hubin
Asia in collaboration with Nobel laureateMuhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre said in a statement yesterday.
Thehub launched in Fukuoka cityon
Kyushu Island , Japan ,will promote social business,a concept developed by Yunus,as
a means of tackling social problems across Asia .
Hiroshi Yoshida,Japan's
Fukuoka city mayor,signed a joint declarationwithYunus,Susumi
Ishihara, chairman of Kyushu Railways, Setuo Arikawa, president of Kyushu University, in Fukuoka on Friday.
As a beginning, Yoshida announced that he would undertakethe first social
business in the cityon
behalf of the city government aiming atcreating employment
for difficult-to-employ young people.
If this is successful hewill undertake social businessesin other fields,the
mayor added.
Fukuokais home to Kyushu University, which hashad cooperation with Grameen Bank in Bangladeshsince
2007 to work on technological innovationto solve problems of the poor in Bangladesh,thestatementadded.
It also established theGrameen Creative Lab,whichwill promotethe concept and practice ofsocial businessin Japan and beyond,based on seven principles of
social businessdefined by Yunus.
Fukuokais the home of theAsian Cultural PrizethatYunus receivedin 2001.
Japan's clothing retail chain to help set up textile unit in Bangladesh-The Daily StarDhakaWednesday,July 14, 2010
Social businessfinds
a new route now -- this timeentering the garmentssector.
Grameen Bank Groupispartnering withFast Retailing Company Ltdthat
owns Japan 's casual-clothing chainUniqlo. Undera joint venture,a textile unit will be set up in Bangladeshin
Septemberto
help the underprivileged women.
The Japanese company and Grameen Bank Group have agreed in Tokyo to launch
the venture through a Fast Retailing subsidiary.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus,who
ispromotingthe social
business model, said the textiles companywill help poor women and solve social problems, including thoserelated topoverty,sanitationandeducation,through planning, production and sale of clothing.
Fast Retailingplansto invest
some $100,000to set up the business, temporarily dubbed asGrameen Uniqlo Ltd, forproducing and retailing the productsin the country, a statement said.
Grameen Bank will take a 1 percent stake in
the venture, according to a Reuters report.
"On the retail front, we will use theGrameen Bank Group's borrowernetwork of eight millionpeopleto help those
living in povertyto develop job skills and provide them with opportunities to sell clothes door-to-door,"saidFast Retailing.
"In the first year, we plan to generate
work for 250 people and to increase this figure to1,500 within three years."
"Grameen ladieswill becometheir own business ownersby
selling the clothing products in visits to neighbours' houses," news agency AFP quoted Tadashi Yanai, chairman and president
of Fast Retailing, as saying.
Yunusisbacked bycorporations such as food
giantDanone,
global water groupVeolia,sportswear companyAdidasand
software companySAP.
Fast Retailingwill bethe first Asian corporationto
starta
social businesswith Grameen Bank Group,Yunussaid.
"Uniqlois a global company, a big
company, and a company that is nowcreatingasocial business in Bangladesh," he said at a Tokyo
press conference, adding thatthe world needsa new economic"architecture"to fight poverty.
Uniqloopened its liaison office in Dhaka in September
last year although it had previously outsourced RMG products through an agent.
It has a network of over760 stores in Japan.
The company opened stores outside Japan in September 2001 starting in London . It expanded international network across six
countries --the UK,China,Hong Kong,the US,South Korea,France.
Meanwhile, garment exports to the new destination of Japan maintained a high growth rate in the
July-April period of fiscal 2009-10 riding on the back ofhigh demand for Bangladeshi apparel itemsthere.
According to data from state-owned Export Promotion
Bureau , Bangladesh exported knitwear items worth $60.02 million in the first 10 months of the immediate past fiscal year,
which was $18.15 million in the same period of fiscal 2008-09.
In the July-April period of fiscal 2009-10, knitwear exports to Japan
grew by 230.65 percent. Bangladesh logged $89.87 million in earnings from woven garment exports, registering a robust 121.46
percent growth over the same period a year ago.
Data showed that RMG exports to Japan were worth $74.38 million in fiscal
2008-09, compared to $28.04 million in fiscal 2007-08.
GIOSB:
Global Institute Of Social Business case 9 of 2010's top 20
The 5000 families free film show that knew how to sponsor hi-trust marketplaces http://giosb.com/
Cinepop is a Mexican social business which stages film shows for 5000 people
who cannot afford to pay to go to a cinema. Its a joyous event that typically creates a week long festival when it comes to
a public square or village. Cinepop’s revenue comes from advertisers and those who form the market stalls that are open
before and after the movie. However pride of place among these stalls are social businesses which cinepop gives free space
to if they are offering vital services the poor need in healtcare, job creation , microcredit etc. Cinepop is passionate about
developing awareness and access to services that poor people would not have any other way of finding out about.
Cinepop develops innovative relationships with local government. It only goes where it
gets to use the public space for free and government puts on ancillary services needed to ensure the safety etc of 5000 people
crowds. In the early days of Cinepop, it took pretty progressive and empowering local authorities to agree to this event.
They map as being the ones that are leading the development of social business culture around
Mexico. Places where people are creatingjobs that develop local microeconomies,
where true microcredits are edging out loan sharks and the race to end poverty is communally sustaining. Like
many of the great social businesses, Cinepop’s exponential growth took time to plant - in Mexico its curving up its own version of Moores law doubling freedom’s reach and popular momentum for opening
up 5000 people’s market centres
Cinepop is a media intent on smartening up people and
bring back sustainability to local communities. It trailblazes the popularity of social businesses and changes local authorities’
attitudes from powering over to empowering the poorest. It is a model socil business fans worldwide can review :
is there an analogy to cinepop your region for testing out which local authorities want to be leaders in social business
zoning space so public services help end poverty?
One of the 10 most colaborative types of partners
that Nobel Laureate & Entrepreneurial Revolutionary Muhammad Yunus http://yunusforum.ning.com/forum is connecting Global Grameen around through the 2010s Joy of Sustainability decade
involves those leaders of places who are prepared to stage social business carnivals when the world’s biggest sporting
events come to their capital city from London's Sustainability Olympics 2012 to Milan's Millennium Goal's Living Social Business Expo
2015. However, Cinepop shows that peoples and places don’t need to wait to being on the world stage to learn from
what types of market stalls local authorities could themselves be social business stimuli of. Social business worldwide networkers
can connect the search for which franchises can be open sourcedinterlocally through public spaces do joyous
celebrations are designed to empower and regenerate communities micro up.
In most countries (parts of the Eastern hemisphere excepted) the acceleration
of mass (and then mobile) media during the 20th century’s last quarter has accidentally operated as a stealth
tax where governments have given away the long term commons(the freedom of speech and of markets to be
transparent in generating local economies) . We have lost the familial joy of there always being open space for spontaneous
meetings , co-creativity and cross-cultural integration and real community in every empowering sense. Instead politicians
got short-term revenue streams that appeared politically popular because they were an alternative to raising
taxes. They were that kind of unfree lunch that puts future generations in hock. Cinepop is a deeply democratic stalking horse
for reversing over-commercialization showing media can be used to sustain the public good if enough networkers realise how
to linkin to just doing it in a place near you.
Bill Clinton says that Bangladesh's great grassroots networks led by Grameen
& BRAC have demonstrated a new development economics is possible - one that is community empowered (bottom up
and collaboratively mobilised) instead of governed top-down by plans that are too profesionally standardised and where the
budget that trickles down can be dismally small . Absolutely, Bangaldesh SB models what privatisation
systems designed for and by the peoples with greatest need of those services that should be every child's/ human's
right of access . Below a typical menu of what Grameen Bangaldesh has found to be the most vital needs it microentreprenurial
networks can solve 35 years into its celebration of the rce to end poverty
2
momentum with bbc and commonwealth Olympics as key connections youths most exciting decade
European Royals Prince
Charles, UKAnne via utimeMostofa via butler-sloss and paul rose and helen gale Princess Anne, UK Queen Sofia, Spain Sam Daley-Harris Luxembourg Family Prince AlbertMonaco
Senior Grameen Friends Honorary Leader: Mary Robinson former President Ireland Exec Leader: Maria Nowak
Paris leading microcredit
Honorary:
James Wolfensohn, former world bank now NY
Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India Kamal Hossain Principal author constitution of Bangladesh
National Leaders Sarkozy ObamaSam Daley-Harris CameronAnne via utime; Mostofa via
Helen Gale Manmohan Singh ClintonsSam Daley-HarrisMostofa via ClintonUniversity Gordon BrownVia GCAL
I am still trying to work out which of Normans Friends wants to help and via which of above starting with
Baroness Sarah Hogg Andrew Neil Sainsbury Family Cadbury
Family Andrew Knight George Soros Alastair Burnett Matt Ridley Johnny Grimond Rupert Pennant Rhea John Mickletwait George Soros Rupert Murdoch
Who's been calling for a complete review of MBAs and which economics globalisation is ruled by
Keynes said "increasinginly only economics rules the word" - ironically in 2010 we can see that even the country
that gave us the word demos no longer rules its democracy independently of the exponentially destructing euro and greece's
own political folly in its negative investment in youth (browser tip in 2010: everywhere you click to a pensions
crisis, add to your map of plces that are devaluing youth nd destroying job creation). The way to deal with Keynes'
rule: DONT LURK NOW, debate with peers and anyone whose degrees of separation you can lower : how
can we help enough young citizens and villagers to see maps of the 2 exponentially opposite (local sustainability rising or globally crashing) system
designs of economics -one of which the next decade chooses to rule the world with for probably for the rest of human
time (because maths shows that system decisions have a scary way of spinning irreversibility once a point in time
has been tipped).
Two of the earliest questioners of which way globalisation were : Einstein who action
learnt with Gandhi's and Montessori's practices, and Von Neumann who action learnt with those who made early computers (what
has become the greatest change our species has ever had to navigate in one generation's competences). What Einstein &
Von Neumann could not predict was when in human history will technology's death of distance occur imposing on one generation the worldwide crisis - both opportunity & threat - of dealing with
change of such magnitude that human sustainability itself will be up for winning or losing. In 1976 December 25, The
Economist survey Entrepreneurial Revolution fired the starting gun: the generation 1976-2024 would be IT. To the world's
great good fortune, 1976 was also the year that Muhammad Yunus started dedicating his life to Bangladesh sharing microconomics
practices with what has become (since the 1997 advent of microcreditsummit) hundreds of millions of women and their youth. Better yet, Muhammad Yunus has enjoyed wonderful co-opetition from the
world's other greatest entrepreneurial revoltionary Sir Fazle Abed whose grassroots networks epicentre is but a
few blocks away from Dr Yunus - making Dhaka en route to every sustainability capitl for anyone so concerned including
Business Schools with a future ranking by youth.
Can you help us compile a role of honour of "applied
microeconomists"? They come from many disciplines. For example in 1984 the system tarnsformation network invented a hosting
technique called open space; when its inventior harrison owen had a meeting with american academics concerned with MBA curricula-
they listened to harrison over lunch; said to harrison if you are right then 95% of whar we teach is wrong- plese go away.
Or in 2000, the Georgetown social lawyer Margaret Blair chaired an expert panel of financial and economic experts convened
by Brookings on the intangibles valuation crisis. When her report on the compound risks of Unseen Wealth was presented
to the incoming adminstration from Texas, she was told to go way. She has had to go to Tennesse to find funds for her kind
of research. When I went to Brusssels to find out why they too had closed down intangibles crisis research in 2003, I was
told : politicians wont get the profesional metrics crisis we are drowing in until the people get it- we estimate at least
3 European Enrons in one year would be needed before the media help the people understand that compound expoentials of sustainability
are at stake.
Microeconomics Heroines & Heroes include:
Einstein (and Mahatma Gandhi), Von Neumann Maria Montessori and Jagdish Gandhi Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed Harrsion Owen , and Buckminster Fuller and Russell
Ackoff Sam Daley Harris and Queen Sofia of Spain and Ingrid Munro in Kenya Tim Berners Lee Margaret Blair In Paris: Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot who started querying MBA at HEC and her global corporate ally Emmanuel Fabre and
whence CEO Frank Riboud and France's Youth government leader Martin Hirsch- all of whom have helped French Youth to energetically
re-examine why their compatriots coined entrepreneur back in 1800 and its 3M urgency Over at Paris's auld alliance in
Glasgow, Zasheem Ahmed and Anton Muscatelli and Pamela Gillies are building on know-how-to-commune-and-do of the scottish
forefathers of microeconomics : James Wilson 1843 and Adam Smith from 250 years ago rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv your nominations
For our purposes we will call these macro (currently ruling) and micro (entrepreneurial) currently
being shredded. Since 1976 ER people including my dad Norman Macrae and Nobel Lurete Muhmmd Yunus have been demonstrating:
If we can re-edit every busienss school curriculum so that microeconomics is trusted beyond macroeconomics then the gopd news is that
we can network to quickly start resolving any and every community's (and so youth's) sustainablity crises
Aravind is one of social business cases
I like to refer people to first for the simplicity of its evidence that it has systemised a 10 times more productive design.
Some economies of social business compound over time – eg the way that the traditional grameen bank was not just a system
design to create jobs for women villagers but an investment in the whole next generation’s literacy and health. In contrast
most of Aravind’s proof of economy is evident as soon as a branch of the franchise opens.
Aravind’s goal is to eradicate needless blindness by designing the most simple and most
productively energised eyecare hospital for cataracts.
It s
origin is a surgeon in India who wanted his lifelong knowledge to be linked together into an o0pen source franchise. The case
came to fame from CK Prahalad’s searches at the turn of the millennium for 10 times more economical systems when designed
to serve bottom billion markets.
One ofhis chief advisers during the design stage
was Larry Brilliant. Eyecare has always been one of his developing world specialties though he is known as the doctor who
saw the last smallpox case eradicated. And was the first CEO of google.org
Basically
10 times more economical is achieved by training staff in exactly what support care is needed. A score of actual surgeons
are supported by hundreds of para-nurses but it turns out that their duties of care are not advanced technically. Aravind
trains village girls to be para nurses in a few weeks. This achieves a triple win – job creation, a wage that is very
good for a village girl but much less costly than a nurse who is professionally qualified in everything that hospital nurses
are responsible for outreach to a market of blind people who could not afford hospital price norms paid by healthcare services
that start at the top of the market. Of course this is a hi-trust franchise where lawyers etc are banned from either side
of a contract between patient and hospital. Not that there is any sign that Aravind results are less safe than other eyecare
hospitals.
Another feature is that patients pay what
they can afford. Typically the maximum charged is a third what other eyecare hospitals charge but this subsidizes many patients
who can’t afford to pay at all to end their blindnness. Across 5 franchises in India, 200,000 operations ending blindness
are conducted each year.
The franchise has been replicated across nations. Bangladesh’s
Grameen has so far built 2 eye care replications – each needing about half a million dollars to build the hospital and
start up. The fundraising for these two replications was done by the responsibility pop group http://www.thegreenchildren.org/
Grameen Nurse Institute is an inspiring new example of connecting partnerships round a Social Business - for
the world to map, action and learn around.
1 December 2008: While driving Dr Yunus to his talk
and awards ceremony at Glasgow Caledonian University , compatriot and university lecturer Dr Zasheem Ahmed asked Dr Yunus
whether he knew that Glasgow Caledonian was one of the largest trainers of nurses for the UK national health Service. Seeing
that Dr Yunus looked interested by the remark he asked why not ask Vice Chancellor to lend you some of Caledonian's trainers
in Bangladesh. This has catalysed a chain of partnerships that less than 10 months later were one of the most inspiring announcements
of Clinton Global Initiative 2009. In particular. Dr Yunus had hunted out Nike Foundation who have branded their focus around
Girl Power with extra support from one of Buffett Family Foundations, Novo. How could they refuse to join in what is probably
the truest Girl Power Social Business of them all.
Dr Yunus
has long been looking for an opportunity to start up a Free Womens University , a social business model which as far I know
began as a unisex one in South Africa at Cida thanks to founder Taddy Blecher, though it too quickly attracted girl power
supporters in the likes of Oprah Winfree. She wanted the alumni of her own school for girls to seriously consider graduating
at CIDA. Another early fan of CIDA was the entrepreneur who won 2nd prize in Richard Branson’s tv reality
apprentice competition Rebel Billionnaire- her prize being the money to start a girls charity. The Free University model,
broadly speaking, offers to train a graduate in some life critical service or practical entrepreneurial innovation for free.
In return, the CIDA graduate commits to spending their next several years serving rural or poorest parts of the country.
So now the partnership of Glasgow Caledonian as a Yunus
Centre- one that is now advertising the world’s first social business chair in health – Nike Foundation and an
emerging chain of partners is building Grameen Nurse Institute.
When
Dr Yunus won the Nobel Prize he told his friends that health partnerships would be his big new priority. His social business
pop group at the time The Green Children raised a million dollars which was enough to build 2 replications of
the aravind eyecare hospital (started in India – se separate entry). These facilities were opened within a year of starting
up. Dr Yunus also has a social business partnership with a hospital construction group that helps!
However perhaps the most deeply practical dynamic to know about the Grameen Nurse Institute
Plan is that it intends to send its trained nurses to serve at Grameen members rural health insurance branches, and of course
to encourage neighbourhood school girls through peer groups to learn first aid, and perhaps become the next graduates of Grameen
Nurse Institute. Grameen’s Health insurance http://www.grameenkalyan.org branch began in 1992 and still focuses on diagnosing illness and recommending
where to go or what pills to take for the cheapest cure (that part being a co-pay the patient makes). It seems like a good
deal to us as Grameen Kalyan is still quoting Grameen Bank members annual insurances for the family at two dollars in those
locations it operates. The main block to this most economical service in the world of health spreading across rural Bangladesh is
trained personnel. The several hundred current staff of Grameen Kalyan are probably the most productive medical and economics
network you will find anywhere –as always rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if you spot a candidate for that social business roll of honor
Can Grameen Nurse Institute be a benchmark for renewing
girl power and community healthcare?
Why not web round
Grameen Nurse Institute as most valued girl power social business on the planet. Dr Yunus is busy showing how to connect
partnerships of medical technology companies now that most diagnostics and some procedures can be examined remotely through
the net –ie the top expert doesn’t have to be in the field to empower fieldworkers as mobile nurses or para medics.
These partnerships look set to keep on growing as the head of Grameen America, Vidar Jorgensen, makes his own for profit living
with America’s largest heath conferences www.worldcongress.com The time I met Vidar he explained that he had a hobby of searching the world for unexpectedly economical healthcare services
in poorest places and had discovered where they appeared they were usually connected with a microcredit. So that’s why
he originally partnered Dr Yunus.
History shows that many communities’ proudest creations were hospitals as social businesses- the 2010s can
rediscover the huge vocational values that were once the heart of the medical profession with heroines like Florence
Nightingale.
How did the world’s safest banking model and greatest system (social business) invention
for sustainability begin?
The Story of Founding Grameen Bank
Bangladesh as new nation, free at cost of a horrific war of independence, was suffering
from a million people dying of famine. A small team decided to try to do something, anything, about it. They hit on the idea
that banking needs to be a human right after research in a village where they found that for $27 , 42 people’s working
lives could be freed from loan sharks.(check numbers)
The
founding team of Grameen Project- 3 men and one woman led by Muhammad Yunus - took 7 years refining as an open source franchise.
Their problem how to create jobs around the poorest illiterate people in the world and take them out of such poverty traps
as being beholden to loan sharks and treated as an underclass. Their emerging model :
·Train up illiterate people
in 5 person teams so that after a week they collaborated with each other, could sign their own name and handle money with
the greatest of family-loving care
·Design village banking centres for every 60 people which
were also the main market place and knowledge hub. By marketplace we mean that for example a group of 60 could decide that
2 people with chickens laying eggs was the perfect number to meet needs and guarantee a positive income. And so compose 60
income generating jobs that would communally fit, and better still empower members of the bank to save as well as take out
credit for increasing their productivity.
During this 7 year franchise improvement period , members
were asked what they wanted the community to invest in to go sustainably beyond poverty. 16 decisions resulted primarily oriented
around improving the health and education of their children. It was also found that village women not men most wanted to collaborate
around all of the above. To do this day, Mrs Nurjahan Begum the female co-founder of Grameen trains and operates the 16 decision
culture with a passion unlike any male or female leader I have met in 33 years of interviewing leaders of organisations that
brand the world locally and globally.She is also the bank’s main vocational education entrepreneur
currently developing Grameen Employment Services as one extraordinarily timely franchise for the world of 2010s.
However what made social business the world’s greatest system invention was that the founding 4 decided those
poorest who most desperately need this organsiation should also be its owners - so the bank could continuously invest in its
unique purpose. The defining Social Business model of the bank is to transparently generate a positive win-win-win cashflow
but to invest all profit back into the organization. This way all the productivity of the community was owned by the community
and indeed advanced the lot of the poorest in what has become known as the great human race towards poverty museums. One day
the failed system of poverty traps will be no more if we open source the system of Grameen Microcredit in any locality where
these most human trusts of sustainability banking are needed.
Q Does banking as a candidate solution
to job creation crises translate for any community where unemployment or underemployment is spinning viciously?
A Yes We Can design "bankng for the unbanked" in developed as well as developing nations –
but beware many nations’ laws are configured around banking for the richest and need changing if the true social business
system of GrameenMicrocredit is to translated optimally. Which governments will help their peoples in this exciting microeconomic
networking?
Q Did Grameen Bank confine itself just to financial services?
A Heavens no. Members asked Grameen leadership to improve
their children’s lot in any and every simple way that made communal sense. An early example : Dr Yunus waited out in
the village whole his female staff knocked on the door of potential new clients. As is the way in Bangladesh villages, all
the children greeted him with he biggest smiles you’ll ever see. But Yunus noticed the sad fact than many of these children
were might blind. Why because of poor nutrition. Simple solution : get members to plant carrots. So one of the first non-financial
services of Grameen Bank was selling carrot seeds in 1 cent packs. So vitally needed was this simple service across rural
Bangladesh that Grameen became the largest seeds retailer in the country.
Q What would the world have missed if Grameen Bank had never been modeled?
A Quite probably human sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm. Definitely improvement of the next generation’s lot
through optimal microeconomics design and integrating higher order system awareness in schools than the 20th century
of separation ruled necessary. To explore why look at the case of Global Grameen http://worldclassbrands.tv launched 2009 in time to celebrate the 2010s United Joy of Millennium Goals decade
Open source property
right asserted isabellawm.com foundation and londoncreativelabs.com and microcredit.tv – rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if
you see errors of concept or may wish comments to be openly publishedDedication
: Mrs Begum, Dr Yunus, Professor Latifee, Dipal Barua – Grameen , and Sam-Daley Harris microcreditsummit.org
world's number 1 social business model - Grameen Bank
Top 20 Social Business Cases of 2010
( open source TM asserted www.giosb.com)
1 Grameen Bank
How did the world’s safest banking model and greatest
system (social business) invention for sustainability begin?
The Story of Founding Grameen Bank
Bangladesh as new nation, free at
cost of a horrific war of independence, was suffering from a million people dying of famine. A small team decided to try to
do something, anything, about it. They hit on the idea that banking needs to be a human right after research in a village
where they found that for $27 , 42 people’s working lives could be freed from loan sharks.(check
numbers)
The founding team of Grameen Project- 3 men and one woman led by Muhammad Yunus - took 7 years
refining the franchise. Their problem how to create jobs around the poorest illiterate people in the world and take them out
of such poverty traps as being beholden to loan sharks and treated as an underclass. Their emerging model :
·Train
up illiterate people in 5 person teams so that after a week they collaborated with each other, could sign their own name and
handle money with the greatest of family-loving care
·Design village banking centres for every
60 people which were also the main market place and knowledge hub. By marketplace we mean that for example a group of 60 could
decide that 2 people with chickens laying eggs was the perfect number to meet needs and guarantee a positive income. And so
compose 60 income generating jobs that would communally fit, and better still empower members of the bank to save as well
as take out credit for increasing their productivity.
During this 7 year franchise improvement period , members
were asked what they wanted the community to invest in to go sustainably beyond poverty. 16 decisions resulted primarily oriented
around improving the health and education of their children. It was also found that village women not men most wanted all
of the above. To do this day, Mrs Nurjahan Begum the female co-founder of Grameen trains and operates the 16 decision culture
with a passion unlike any male or female leader I have met in 33 years of interviewing leaders of organisations that brand
the world locally and globally.She is also the bank’s main education entrepreneur currently developing
Grameen Employment Services as one extraordinarily timely franchise for the world of 2010s.
However
what made social business the world’s greatest system invention was that the founding 4 decided those poorest who most
desperately need this organsiation should also be its owners - so the bank could continuously invest in its purspose. The
defining Social Business model of the bank is to transparently generate a positive win-win-win cashflow but to invest all
profit back into the organization. This way all the productivity of the community was owned by the community and indeed advanced
the lot of the poorest in what has become known as the great human race towards poverty museums. One day the failed system
of poverty traps will be no more if we open source the system of Grameen Microcredit in any locality where these most human
trusts of sustainability banking are needed.
Q&A – please send more to sofia@
Q Does banking as a candidate solution to job creation crises translate for any community where unemployment or underemployment
is spinning viciously?
A
Yes We Can –and in cities twinned in sustainability with London and Dhaka will http://londoncreativelabs.com and http://cslondon.org - humanly design that in developed as well as developing nations – but beware
many nations’ laws are configured around banking for the richest and need changing if the true social business system
of GrameenMicrocredit is to translated optimally. Which governments will help their peoples in this exciting microeconomic
networking?
Q Did Grameen Bank confine itself just to financial services?
A Heavens no. Members asked Grameen leadership to improve
their children’s lot in any and every simple way that made communal sense. An early example : Dr Yunus waited out in
the village whole his female staff knocked on the door of potential new clients. As is the way in Bangladesh villages, all
the children greeted him with he biggest smiles you’ll ever see. But Yunus noticed the sad fact than many of these children
were might blind. Why because of poor nutrition. Simple solution : get members to plant carrots. So one of the first non-financial
services of Grameen Bank was selling carrot seeds in 1 cent packs. So vitally needed was this simple service across rural
Bangladesh that Grameen became the largest seeds retailer in the country.
Q What’s sorts of exponential
rising consequences are sustained by a third of a century of win-win-win social business modeling around a bank?
A Grameen Bangladesh may be a special
case of the best that banking can be for humanity since the 4 founders have dedicated their lives to the enterprise, and leader
Muhammad Yunus is arguably the most entrepreneurial practitioner on the planet. For example, when global consultants said
that mobile phones would only ever have quarter of a million users in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus seized the opportunity to
invest his member’s money in mobiles getting the franchise for cents in the dollar. But his primary reasoning for this
bold intervention was to unleash info tech in the village. Soon telephone ladies- one shared mobile rented
per village centre – were linking up what is today the 125000 village hubs making up Grameen’s nearly 8 million
membership. Please note that the Social Business system empowers any leader to connect the organsiation as sustainably as
possible, and with 33 years of practice who knows how many YUnUS can cheerlead the world – Dr Yunus is currently searching
http://www.yunusforum.netfor 5000 Youth Ambassadors to share mindsets with, as well as at
least one university Yunus Centre http://www.yunuscentre.orgpartner in every country. And the idea of testing a franchise micro
to see if it works before openly replicating it across all the members hubs makes entrepreneurial innovation as likely to
blossom as any human organsiation system design can.
Q What would the world have missed if Grameen Bank had
never been modeled?
A Quite
probably human sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm. Definitely improvement of the next generation’s lot through
optimal microeconomics design and integrating higher order system awareness in schools than the 20th century of
separation ruled necessary. To explore why look at the case of Global Grameen http://worldclassbrands.tv launched 2009 in time to celebrate the 2010s United Joy of Millennium Goals decade
Open source property
right asserted isabellawm.com foundation and londoncreativelabs.com and microcredit.tv – rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if
you see errors of concept or may wish comments to be openly publishedDedication
: Mrs Begum, Dr Yunus, Professor Latifee, Dipal Barua – Grameen , and Sam-Daley Harris microcreditsummit.org
Brainstorming on how best to make $50,000 social business loan our
of norman macrae estate .
my view is that there is more than enough job creation and industry revitalisation need for paris and glasgow not
to feel any competition over dr yunus- the invitation to brainstorm on what to do next in this mail makes this collab
assumption
if we can get the perfect flow models working round dr yunus "time
is now chapter": at end of his new book connecting youth of paris, glasgow and dhaka (eg get surveys of youth in
these 3 countries to maintain a league table of youths goals for 2020 sustainability) then with jonathans direct access
to entrepreneurs in 50 future capitals next collaboration cities can be included in terms of what they can bring to sustainability
goals that paris-glasgow-dhaka ( a spanish city would be an obvious fourth since queen sofia has done most to move heaven
& earth for the end poverty movement since 1997 or earlier and is almost playing the role martin hirsch plays out of paris-
also the one agent of yunus who is wholly collaborative is sam daley harris and he is effect designing microcreditsummit of
the 2010s around queen sofia's wush that celebration of mobile youth microcredit becomes centre stage
MY FAMILY FOUNDATION WOULD BE PREPARED
TO MAKE 50000 US DOLLAR social business loan if we could find the right co-partners to operate the best leadersquest model
to dhaka
leadersquest
takes CEOs on benchmrking tour of how they could partner the deepest projects emerging in Bangladesh; usually
about 20 ceos at time; typically it charges them the top price ceos would expect for being in such n exclusive club but
part of that is returned if they start a partnership in bangladesh within year; as a tour's first couple of days happen
it becomes pretty clear that there are 2 groups- one that want the deep social action tour and the other that mainly want
to feel good; both groups' custom needs to be serves
as
over 20 of my friends can testify, zasheem and mostofa already graciously have the permissions to escort people to almost
any yunus project in bangladesh and we can evolve a way to do the same with brac as if the 2010s are to be the most exciting
decade then these 2 most exiting end poverty networks need to collaborate more than they compete
there is one well validated leadersquest model but fortunately they dont have bangladesh connections;
they may well be better at china and india quests so if we can get best at bangladesh we can co-stage tours; and in the event
that yunus is serious about london olympics being the greatest leadership reunion ever staged, we cant get too much practice
in escorting leaders quest ( I expect jonathans friend john elkington (of triple bottom line and sustainability.com ) already
tacitly does this withwww.volans.com
such tours can be something that
principal like muscatelli can co-own university branches of and he can find who in scotlands political world corresponds
to martin hirsch (eg is it or isnt it gordon brown)
leaders
quest becomes 5 times more impactful when mixed with danone communities youth networking and social business funds format
and I hope that it can be shown that leaders quest would accelerate danone communities impact
it would seem to me that if you all want to take this to the next step one
joint visit to bangladesh will be needed at time zasheem is there; as well s anyone prepared to take on leadersquest as part
of their end poverty networks life process it should include zasheem, jonathan representing the 50 hubs, danone communities,
ideally an agent of muscatelli -the point is if glasgow uni is involved with leaders quest into bangaldehs it can then make
partnerships with any universities it chooses
timing this as urgently as possible is impacted by the detioriating capability of dr yunus to host
leadership quests round infotech applications; when I first met dr yunus at start if 2008 the first person he introduced me
to what to tour me round infotech applications; those people have since been disconnected in dr yunus need to earn hard currency
with infotech or so it seems; this is one of the peculiarites if dr yunus with so little resources to do global client relationships
out of dhaka he tends to devolve stuff- it could be that kyushu is already the simpler place to visit to understand yunus'
infotech! although more interesting to me on this map of where it could connect in is jack ma of ali baba and wherever he
is located in china as he's the only person I have specifically heard declaring the commitment to create 100 million jobs
with info tech - delighted if you know of others; I think Nilekani in india could be moved into such top group
if leaders quest got a bit more mature as a network of networks
a leaders quest model is of course natural synergy with journalism for humanity models ; so getting a working
group together before meeting in The economist boardroom (most likely date 7 december) matters if this concept is to come
together
(incidentally glasgow is the alma mater of
both Mrs Yunus and sir fazle abed as well as adam smith from which the family tree of entrepremeusrhip criss-crossed between
paris and glasgow for 2 over centuries until dhaka became the 3rd great capital of youth microeconomics andentrepreneurs
that make more jobs than they take )
Please tell us which social networks and webs already know about Cinepop so we can map out how to mexican wave the celebrations from social business opininon leaders to those who need help empowering
yes we can. Examples of those already at zero degrees of separation with cinepop's entrepreneurial revolution are:
about one sixth of the social entreprise conference class of columbia business school mbas 2010 - NY event
oct 2009, keynoted by Craig Barrett who signed the Global Grameen partnership deal Grameen Intel but whose active retirement now includes developing a curriculum of ethical leadership at Thunderbird Business School