Welcome to the website of danone.communities
danone.communities is a "social businesses network".
Our mission is to fund and develop local businesses with a sustainable economic model, oriented towards social goals: reducing poverty and malnutrition. Alongside social entrepreneurs, this support goes through both investment via a SICAV general public but also by a technical support through a network of committed experts who convey their experiences.
Beyond its projects, we wish to share our lessons to inspire other individual and collective initiatives in the service of a more cohesive society.
We are now present in 6 countries. You can find these projects on our map below and in our projects space.
GCM Tour 2012 : Registrations for Paris are now opened !
danone.communities invites you to its Global Communities Meeting Tour 2012, a meeting tour about social business and social innovation. In 2011, more than 2000 joined us at the Caroussel du Louvre to learn and share about water access (through Indian and Mexican examples), about innovatire nutrition (with Lemateki and Grameen Danone Foods Ltd) and a specific project in China that has launched its firts pilot in December (read here Emmanuel Marchant's article about it).
Climax of the meetings tour, GCM Paris will stand in May 15th, at La Maison de la Mutualité (Paris) to gather all the communities of social business around Pr. Yunus. Our guests will discuss about "Social Business and Nutrition in emerging countries" & "Is Social Business working?".
To register, click here ! See you there !
Other News
The GDFL early story, told by Richard Branson : “Profit is not all that matters”
on the Thursday, 26 April, 2012 - 17:07
Richard Branson is an entrepreneur. His biography on Wikipedia mentions the 400 businesses he created. On Business Day, he tells the story of the beginning of Grameen Danone Foods Ltd, the first social business of danone.communities, based on the idea of Muhammad Yunus and Franck Riboud. It is very interesting to see how such an entrepreneur describes the early weeks and months of GDFL. This is why we decided to publish a large part of the article. (Find the original article [...]
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It's good to be in 2012 : Isomir has launched a second pilot !
on the Monday, 16 January, 2012 - 18:52
Isomir is on the starting blocks for 2012 with the launching of a second pilot : its name is CUMA* bio Val de Seine, it gathers several farmers (4, to be more precise) who cultivate “bio” vegetables and distribute them to local school cafeterias, with the support of the association Fermes Bio d’Ile de France. This is a real territory project because it impacts many actors: -the farmers: the CUMA maintains their job -the coordinator of the [...]
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Naandi Community Water Services "Quenching thirst in rural areas"
on the Thursday, 26 April, 2012 - 15:35
On Monday, one of the biggest information website in India has published an article about Naandi Community Water Services. Why is it important? It is important because Naandi Community Water Services is one of our projects that are the most impactful. We are happy that the NCWS team is such highlighted, congratulations to their work ! Moreover, this article enters deeply into the daily life of the project, that is always much more meaningful that anything. Read the beginning of this [...]
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"The Bookworm revolution" : the winner fo Social Business Youngsters
on the Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 - 10:27
Remember our call for projects on Facebook, Social Business Youngsters? Our winner is Nazia Zebin and her team from Bangladesh. Their project? The Bookworm Revolution, a project that aims at helping young children in rural areas to develop literacy competences, by giving them access to adapted books to their young age. But, better than us, Nazia tells you her story. Throughout the world, education has been established as the key to good jobs and high incomes. A few recent [...]
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