The social enterprise sector in Singapore has become vibrant and diverse in recent years. The sector continues to experience significant growth, as more new players enter the field. This paper aims to map the diverse range of social enterprises that have emerged in the Singapore context, and ...
While teaching Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, Durreen wrote about the need for investment to fuel businesses that were uplifting communities and leading to sustainable development. Her writings led her to meeting with the Rockefeller Fo...
The lender said more than 80 percent of social enterprises in Singapore are using its banking services at the moment. And China is the first market outside of Singapore where it has launched its social enterprise banking services. "Relying on our many years of experience supporting sm...
the following components: an in-person YSE Global Workshop in Singapore, four-month remote mentorship, monthly capacity-building sessions and the Pitching for Change event finale where up to six teams can receive funding of up to S$20,000 to start or scale up their social enterprise. ...
4 women supervise inmates at Changi Prison Complex for social enterprise Boxgreen The operations at Boxgreen Singapore, a social enterprise supported by DBS Foundation, is held together by four cheerful ladies who supervise the work of inmates at the boxgreen workshop in Changi Prison Complex Pla...
Social enterprise Entrepreneurial ecosystem Legal form Organization field 1. Introduction The concept of social enterprise has been emerging in Indonesia over the last decades. One effort to identify social enterprise in the local context is the establishment of a movement called the Indonesian Social E...
The social enterprise was co-founded by David Pong, Chief Executive Officer, Lim Chong Tee, Chief Marketing Officer, and Vincent Loka, Chief Technical Officer. Pong and Lim tell us more about their business. 1. You have a noble mission to end thirst in rural areas through innovativ...
What is it like to work at a social enterprise? How does it differ from a typical business – or is there even a difference? Nineteen students at the Singapore Management University (SMU) recently took part in internships at nine social enterprises. At these enterprises, supported by DBS Fou...
2.2Social Enterprises in Europe and Germany In Europe, the idea of social entrepreneurship also took hold, albeit with a slightly different focus: it was not the individual social entrepreneur who was – and is – at the center of interest here, but rather the social enterprise as a collective...
Singapore-based private equity and venture capital investment firm Heritas Capital, through its Asia Impact First Fund ( AIFF ), has led a S$2 million ( US$1.48 million ) investment into The Gentle Group, a local social enterprise. The investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, SEEDS Capital, ...