“Yunus Social Business – Global Initiatives”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Yunus Social Business (YSB) believes in the power of business to end poverty. They finance and support sustainable social businesses in developing economies, whilst their Corporate Innovation team guide multinationals to apply their core competencies to some of the greatest human challenges. Companies like Impact Water that have been financed by YSB tackle similar challenges to those traditionally addressed by aid agencies or charities. YSB provides employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to millions of people worldwide.

Founded in 2011, with headquarters in Frankfurt and Berlin, YSB's mission is to expand the social business model pioneered by Prof. Muhammad Yunus through the Yunus Center in Bangladesh, to countries throughout the developing world. The primary goal is to utilise the tools developed in the business world, to create financially self-sustaining companies dedicated to reducing poverty. A secondary goal is to finance social businesses that directly contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Background

Founded in 2011 by Muhammad Yunus, Saskia Bruysten and Sophie Eisenmann, YSB's aim is to replicate the social business model, pioneered by Prof. Yunus, across the developing world. With a focus on providing financial and business support to social businesses outside of Bangladesh, the fund focuses on financing companies that either provide income or essential products and services to the poor.^[1]^[2] Yunus Social Business acts as the international implementation arm for Prof. Yunus's Social Business concept^[3]^[4] and operates under the same principles as the Social Businesses it finances, in particular, the social business model.

What does Yunus Social Business do?

The operating structure of Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives consists essentially of two units which work in partnership with local YSB country organisations:

Philanthropic Venture Funds

Yunus Social Business Funds gGmbH is a charitable limited liability company registered in Frankfurt, Germany which achieves its charitable goals by supporting and financing early-stage social businesses in developing and emerging economies with its philanthropic venture fund team. Local YSB teams provide early-stage social businesses with a package of investment readiness programs, long-term patient financing, and strategic support.

Corporate Innovation

Yunus Social Business Gmbh is a for-profit limited liability company registered in Frankfurt, Germany which acts as a Social Business. YSB GmbH acts as an advisor to large and medium-sized public and private corporations to help them use their abilities for social good and strengthen their internal social entrepreneurship capabilities. YSB GmbH pursues its activities under the brand name “Yunus Social Business Corporate Innovation”, with its dedicated team.

Country Initiatives

YSB runs Philanthropic Venture Funds that are actively financing entrepreneurs through local teams in Uganda, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia and India. Their Global office is based in Germany (Berlin & Frankfurt). They have network teams that manage their current portfolio in Haiti, The Balkans and Tunisia.

YSB Corporate Innovation, are able to support social business ventures in almost any region in the world, with dedicated teams based in Germany, Brazil and India.

YSB Brazil

In March 2013, YSB Brazil was launched to spread the social business concept throughout Brazil; Rio was officially declared a ‘Social Business City.’ Yunus Negocios Sociais Brasil, as it is locally known, runs investment readiness programmes and invests in social businesses as well as working with larger Corporations with their dedicated Corporate Innvoation team.

YSB Colombia

YSB Colombia was created in 2011 originally as Grameen Caldas and officially became YSB Colombia in 2013. It currently manages a portfolio of 3 social businesses to date, including a joint venture with potato giant McCain.

YSB Kenya

YSB Kenya was incorporated in 2019 and is looking forward to making the first investment.

YSB India

YSB India was launched in 2011 in Mumbai, which is where the Corporate Innovation team are based. The YSB Fund Bengaluru run the Social Business Funds from Bengaluru and have made 5 investments into social businesses.

YSB Uganda

In partnership with the African Development Bank, YSB Uganda was started in November 2013, and the first social businesses were supported in 2014.

Network Countries

YSB Albania

YSB Albania began operations in April 2012 with the support of the Albanian National Government, and in 2014, it expanded its outreach to Kosovo. YSB Albania has financed 5 social businesses to date, and ran its first intense accelerator program in 2014.

YSB Costa Rica

Launched the first corporate social business joint venture with a Costa Rican leading food company, Florida Ice and Farm Company, to produce food to combat malnutrition targeting children.

YSB Haiti

Based in Port-au-Prince, the YSB Haiti office was opened in 2010 with the support of our founding partner SAP. Currently, the team manages a portfolio of 9 social businesses. In 2013, YSB set up a new social business joint venture together with Virgin Unite and the Clinton Foundation – The Haiti Forest initiative.^[5] The main objectives of Haiti Forest are to engage the local community in re-foresting Haiti, provide sustainable livelihoods to farmers across Haiti, create job opportunities and create an affordable and clean fuel source to reduce dependency on charcoal.

YSB Tunisia

Launched in 2013 in partnership with the African Development Bank, Tunisia was the first in a series of African countries to replicate the social business concept. In 2014, it launched its first accelerator program, locally known as iBDA.