New Economics Foundation (NEF) launches ‘Measuring our progress – the power of well-being’. The UK Prime Minister asked the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) to initiate a debate on national well-being and to start to measure it. If this is done well, the results can influence policy and make a real difference to people’s [...]

Echoing Green has identified three emerging trends, based on a survey carried out among semi-finalists for its fellowship programme: Social entrepreneurs are attracted to solving the world’s most difficult problems early in their career. Social entrepreneurs are blurring the lines between nonprofit and for profit experience and are often serial entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are on [...]

HomeWomen Thrive Releases a Fundraising Guide for Community-Based Organizations

Ashoka’s Citizen Base Initiative spurs organizations to build a broad base of support — the Citizen Base. To accelerate this momentum and free the citizen sector from its dependence on traditional foundation grants and government aid, CBI invests in community based organizations worldwide that rely on a diversity of resources to sustain and scale their [...]

The European Citizens’ Initiative is one of the major innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon, aimed at increasing direct democracy in the European Union. The initiative enables one million EU citizens, who are nationals of a significant number of Member States, to call directly on the European Commission to bring forward an initiative of interest [...]

The Annual Report on European SMEs is prepared on yearly basis. It provides an overview of the size, structure and importance of SMEs to the European economy and their contribution to growth and jobs, as emphasised in the SBA and the Lisbon agenda. Comparisons with important partner countries outside the EU and with the large [...]

Adopted in June 2008, the “Small Business Act” for Europe reflects the Commission’s political will to recognise the central role of SMEs in the EU economy. It aims to improve the overall approach to entrepreneurship, to irreversibly anchor the “Think Small first” principle in policy making from regulation to public service, and to promote SMEs’ [...]