//podcastplus.net/feed/plurrify~e0ead194 In Plurrify we explore the field of social entrepreneurship through the lens of the innovators advancing the future. Successful social entrepreneurs and folks advancing social good with tech share their experiences and expands your view on social innovation, development and humanity. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:41:36 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/47-South-Pole-Group.mp3?dest-id=329671 “If you want to get people behind the fight for climate change it has to be easy and simple to contribute.” South Pole Group is a leading provider of global sustainability solutions and services. The company has delivered climate-proven solutions and policy advisory to a wide range of public, private and civil society organisations for over a decade. Areas of expertise cover key sustainability-related areas of corporate sustainability, investment climate risks, sustainable supply chains, green finance, as well as renewable energy and energy efficiency. A pioneer in emission reduction and renewable energy projects, the South Pole Group’s portfolio is at present the largest available on the market. South Pole’s impact include over 80 million tonnes of CO2 saved, over 500+ projects in renewables, forestry, agriculture, industry, households and public institutions, screening the climate footprint of over $1 trillion of investments and mobilising over $10 billion for clean energy investments in emergin... Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/47-South-Pole-Group.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/46-KickStart-International.mp3?dest-id=329671 “I shouldn’t have been there in the capacity that I was.” KickStart International is an award-winning, nonprofit social enterprise with a mission to lift millions of people out of poverty. They do this  through their “MoneyMaker” human-powered irrigation pumps. These low-cost ($70 and $150) pumps are bought by small-scale farmers who use them to access wells or nearby water sources to irrigate their plots and grow crops year-round. As a result, farmers transform their farms into profitable businesses and this new income empowers families to properly feed and educate their children, afford healthcare and plan for their futures. MoneyMaker pumps are sold in local retail shops in 16 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. To date, more than 215,000 farming families have used MoneyMaker pumps and KickStart estimate that the pumps  have lifted over 1,000,000 people out of poverty. Jenna is KickStart International's Senior Partnership Officer. She has spent much of her career accelerating community-b... Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/46-KickStart-International.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/45-Take-Back-The-Tech.mp3?dest-id=329671 “Violence against women is the most extreme expression of unequal gender power.” Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative global campaign with a simple call: for everyone - especially women and girls - to take control of technology to end gender-based violence. Initiated in 2006 by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the campaign has been taken up, adapted and owned by individuals, collectives and organisations globally. In 2014, Take Back the Tech! was awarded the inaugural GEM-TECH award from UN Women and the International Telecommunications Union for Efforts to Reduce Threats Online and Building Women's Confidence and Security in the Use of ICTs. In both 2014 and 2008, Take Back the Tech! received an Honorary Mention for Digital Communities from the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica. Jac sm Kee is a feminist activist and writer. She currently heads up the Women's Rights Programme for APC. Her areas of focus include internet governance and human rights, sexuality, women’s rights, ... Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/45-Take-Back-The-Tech.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/44-PUR-Projet.mp3?dest-id=329671 “We are in the middle of an economic, environmental and social crisis. And most of us don’t do anything to tackle that.” PUR Projet is a collective organisation specialised in "Insetting via agroforestry". Insetting means offsetting the social and environmental footprint of a company within its own supply chains and sphere of influence. The forestry projects generate multiple benefits for local communities, while regenerating the ecosystems companies depend upon to make their supply chains and business sustainable. PUR Projet is a certified B Corporation with about 40 projects in around 40 countries. Since its inception PUR Projet has planted 7 million trees and has manages over 200 million trees under conservation. Tristan is a serial social entrepreneur. He founded an NGO in Nepal for rural development in 1994 and in 1998, he founded Alter Eco, a now leading organic and fair trade company on the french market, which also sells to the US and Australian markets. In 2008, Tristan founded PUR Projet... Tue, 22 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/44-PUR-Projet.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/43-Mozaik-Foundation.mp3?dest-id=329671 “The real problem for countries emerging from conflict is the economic situation for young people.” Mozaik Foundation was founded in 2002 and aims to contribute to the economic and social stability of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Mozaik is a leading social enterprise in the region and its mission is to create an army of young and enterprising people until 2023, who will create jobs and who will be role models for the 70% of young people who dream of leaving the country. Mozaik Foundation also support non-formal youth groups and organisations whose actions bring economic and social benefits. By opening two social businesses, EkoMozaik Ltd. and MaŠta Agency, Mozaik Foundation also showcase that you can run a successful business and still be responsible to society. Zoran Puljic is the founding director of Mozaik Foundation and he emerged from the last decade with an innovative approach to community and economic development. He is the 2010 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and Zoran has served as ... Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/43-Mozaik-Foundation.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/42-Africa-Check.mp3?dest-id=329671 “Had I not played the piano, things might have been very different.” Africa Check, founded in 2012, is the continent’s leading independent fact-checking organisation. Its mission is to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in key countries across Africa, as well as to foster a wider practice of fact-checking across the continent. It exists in the belief that people all over the world make decisions based on the best information available, and that misleading or false information makes for poor decisions. Africa Check currently operates offices in South Africa and Senegal and is soon to launch offices in Nigeria and Kenya. Its teams of researchers work from the Journalism Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa and the EJICOM journalism school in Dakar, Senegal. Besides publishing reports, Africa Check trains and mentors other media in fact-checking and runs the African Fact-Checking Awards. Peter Cunliffe-Jones is the founder and executive direct... Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/42-Africa-Check.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/41-IJDH.mp3?dest-id=329671 “The official death toll is 10,000, however MSF estimates it to be 30,000-100,000.” The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) assists Haitians in enforcing human rights to escape poverty and vulnerability. IJDH, along with its local partner, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), litigates cases in Haitian, U.S. and international courts. They train progressive Haitian lawyers, document human rights violations and works with grassroots activists in Haiti, North America and throughout the world. The BAI and IJDH have spearheaded several innovative, high-impact human rights cases, including the Raboteau Massacre case, tried in 2000 and hailed as one of the most important human rights prosecutions in the Americas. More recent IJDH/BAI cases include the prosecution of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a complaint against the United Nations for introducing cholera to Haiti, and the Rape Accountability and Prevention Project. As a human rights lawyer and activist, Brian f... Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/41-IJDH.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/40-PlanetRead.mp3?dest-id=329671 “700 million people can’t read a newspaper today in India.” PlanetRead’s mission is “Literacy for a Billion”. It’s a registered non-profit which innovates, researches, implements, scales and engages policy and corporations around cost-effective and scalable solutions to support literacy. PlanetRead has implemented Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on mainstream song-based TV programming in eight major languages, on Doordarshan, India’s state television network, and Zee, one of India’s top private networks. As a result it has delivered regular reading practice to an estimated 200 million weak-reading TV viewers and conducted impact studies on their reading skills. PlanetRead’s goal is to have SLS on all song-based TV content in India in all official languages, and over time to leverage the India scale up to promote SLS in other countries. Bill Clinton has called it “a small change that has a staggering impact on people’s lives”. Brij has a Ph.D. in Education from Cornell Universit... Tue, 04 Oct 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/40-PlanetRead.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/39-N-Map.mp3?dest-id=329671 New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map) is one of the world’s leading media and human rights groups. It advances human rights and social justice by using video and other media to strengthen legal advocacy in courts, legislatures and communities. At its heart, N-Map’s work addresses the need for greater participation in the legal and political process by those who have been directly impacted by abuse and injustice. Furthermore, communities most affected by violations are often unable to access key decision makers for a variety of financial, practical, or political reasons. N-Map has collaborated with dozens of human rights organisations around the world to merge media and storytelling into their advocacy. In 2014, N-Map was recognised as a technology and human rights leader when it received a “New Digital Age” award from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Adam Stofsky is the founder and executive director of N-Map. He is a graduate of Amherst College (1998) and Harvard Law School (2004). After finishing law ... Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/39-N-Map.mp3?dest-id=329671 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/38-mothers-delivery-kit.mp3?dest-id=329671 Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Mother's Delivery Kit is a social enterprise, established to promote and enhance safe births, instigate behavioural change and economically empower women. Since its founding in 2014, Mother’s Delivery Kit, has sold almost 100,000 kits, trained over 2,000 birth attendants and set up a technology platform to connect hundreds of women to the lifesaving information and quality healthcare personnel at childbirth. Mother’s Delivery Kit supply birthing kits to health centers, hospitals, university teaching hospitals, maternal and child health organisations, Traditional Birth Attendants and a host of other change makers. The kits include an immunisation calendar, and has played a part in the 70% increase in antenatal and immunisation attendance in communities where Mother’s Delivery Kit works. Adepeju is the founder of Mother’s Delivery Kit and a lawyer by training. She is passionate about social entrepreneurship and provide simple lifesaving solutions to some of the world's bigge... Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://traffic.libsyn.com/plurrify/38-mothers-delivery-kit.mp3?dest-id=329671