By Calvin Chu, a Partner at Eden Strategy Institute, LLP. Eden operates a social venture capital fund that invests in social enterprises that are aligned to its financial, environmental, governance, and social impact criteria to help them grow. Asia has no lack of social innovators with the...

By SG Cares (an initiative of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre). There are two approaches to start a employee volunteer programme: 1. Employee-Driven Approach (Bottom-Up) Characteristics of this approach usually sees the management playing a supporting role, with the...

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In February 2011 Good Paper visited Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand and had the opportunity to look at some of their projects. VDP Concept Note Village Development Bank PDA uses a holistic Village Development Partnership framework to lift villages out...

The Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) is an annual three-day programme by Singapore International Foundation (SIF) aimed at “inspiring and equipping youths to embark on social enterprises in Singapore and the region”. Consisting of seven nationalities, the 14 teams taking part in...

By Calvin Chu, a Partner at Eden Strategy Institute, LLP. Eden operates a social venture capital fund that invests in social enterprises that are aligned to its financial, environmental, governance, and social impact criteria to help them grow. Executives at Small and Medium Enterprises...

By Jamon Mok, a student at SMU who founded Project Gazaab. He loves travelling on the unbeaten path and believes that entrepreneurship and games can change the world. Micro enterprises are small services delivered by individual and families in a community and it is vital to any community....

Lim Yaohui is a horticulturist on weekdays and photographer on weekends. As a sensitive observer who pays immaculate attention to details, he hopes to use photography as a medium to help people who do not have the opportunity to express...