Return on Equality: Investment Opportunities that Help Close the Global Gender Gap
The potential economic and development gains from gender equality are vast and well-documented — and yet they are currently being bypassed.
Powering Potential: Increasing Women’s Access to Financial Products and Services
A spotlight on the opportunity to realize gains — in both gender equality and market returns — by increasing women’s financial inclusion around the world.
BNY Mellon, Ashoka Reveal 37 Social Innovators Driving Financial Wellbeing
As part of the nationwide Unlocking ₵hange Challenge , Ashoka and BNY Mellon have been searching the United States for innovations that actively increase financial wellbeing for the communities and individuals who need it most. The goal of the competition is to uncover and identify ideas, programs...
BNY Mellon, Ashoka Name Finalists of the Unlocking ₵hange Challenge
As part of the nationwide Unlocking ₵hange Challenge, Ashoka and BNY Mellon have been searching the United States for innovations.
Inaugural Grunin Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Awarded at NYU Law
NEW YORK, June 6—At a ceremony at NYU School of Law yesterday evening, a project submitted by the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) was named winner of the inaugural Grunin Prize for social entrepreneurship. The prize recognizes the variety and impact of lawyers’ participation in the ways in...
Great time to invest in women entrepreneurs, says Mann Deshi Bank’s Chetna Sinha
Chetna Sinha, along with six other women, will co-chair the 48th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting to be held at Davos between 23 and 26 January. This is the first time that the WEF panel will have all women co-chairs. Sinha tells us why the panel with all women co-chairs is a historic move...
#LeadYoung - Valeria Budinich: Helping social entrepreneurs to access capital and resources to scale their initiatives
Valeria Budinich is a social entrepreneur and organizational strategist with 25 years’ experience specializing in high-impact business/social entrepreneurship. Valeria’s pathway as a leading social entrepreneur started with a roulette wheel. When she was ten, she asked her parents for one for...
#LeadYoung - Felipe Vergara: redefining access to education through a multi-million dollar financing innovation
For many young people around the world, paying for college tuition locks them into decades of debt. It forces them to forego purpose-oriented jobs like teaching because those salaries will not cover their loan payments. For those who can’t find employment or lose their jobs, their fixed loan...
#LeadYoung - Jeroo Billimoria: a global movement that started with a simple gesture in her teens
A social entrepreneur known for building huge, global coalitions, Jeroo first started in Mumbai, working with street children. She gave them her private phone number in case of emergencies. Soon every night it was ringing. From that caring and then recognition of system need came Childline. Any...