We finance and support social businesses to end poverty and the climate crisis.
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Our Organisational Partners
These are the organisations that make our work possible with financial and pro-bono support.
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A social business is...
We provide flexible loans and growth support to social businesses in the missing middle.
Our approach
We provide flexible loans and growth support to social businesses in the missing middle.
Case study
How our work helped Instituto Muda to triple both its customer base and impact.
Reports
Enterprise Support Landscape Study
Partnering with IKEA Foundation to map out the impact-investing & social-business ecosystem across four geographies, 50 impact investors and over 150 social businesses.
Impact to date
Learn about our impact
1.3
m
higher incomes
supported
supported
17
.8m
people served with essential goods & services
5
m
tons of CO2 averted
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Deadline Extended for the Reckitt Access Accelerator - Open Call for Social Entrepreneurs!
Deadline Extended for the Reckitt Access Accelerator - Open Call for Social Entrepreneurs!
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Official Statement by Yunus Social Business Global
The Release of YSB's Corporate Guide to Social Procurement in South Africa
Building on the success of the WASH Accelerator
Poverty, pollution, health and WASH: Can interlinked problems offer interlinked solutions?
Women making waves: Female social entrepreneurs in the WASH sector
Five social businesses scaling impact through corporate social procurement partnerships
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Sector Spotlight Report on Plastic Waste: Learn from insights gained from over 60 social businesses
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6 social businesses at the heart of the Fight for Access Accelerator in Nigeria
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Open up your social business to the opportunity of selling directly to corporations
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Deadline extended for Reckitt's Fight for Access Accelerator in Nigeria!
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Increase visibility, gain access to insights, and create opportunities for collaboration
Business as a Force for Good: A Transformation Framework for Leaders
How Zurich Insurance Group ensures impact through their value chain
5 Questions with Audi's Social Intrapreneur, Lukas Petersik
Celebrating female leadership of social entrepreneurs within YSB's portfolio: Sheila Alumo
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These 6 inspiring social businesses are fighting for access to water, sanitation & hygiene in Brazil
Celebrating female leadership of social entrepreneurs within YSB's portfolio: Sandra Nalli
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Meet the social entrepreneurs of Reckitt's Fight for Access Accelerator in South Africa
The 2022 Programme Supports Early-stage Businesses in India
Kantar's Sustainable Futures podcast features YSB's impact measurement & management basics.
5 Things to Know about Reckitt's Fight for Access Accelerator
Are you ready for the LkSG in 2023?
10 Success Stories from 10 Years of Social Business
YSB 10 Years Celebration: Here's What Happened!
10 Years Of Social Business: Anniversary Report
A practical guide to learning how to integrate social businesses into corporate supply chains
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Yunus Social Business Turns 10 Years Old!
Enterprise Support Landscape Study
Yunus Social Business and Upaya Social Ventures Join Forces
Living Up To Our Mission: Our 2020 Annual Report
Yunus Social Business and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship partnership
YSB Launches Coursera Courses: Education For A World of Three Zeroes
Social innovation (in a crisis)
Do you know an #UnusualPioneer? Nominate a corporate social intrapreneur for a scholarship!
Social business boosts livelihoods and recycling efforts in India
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Fuelling social-business entrepreneurship in Kenya and beyond
The Quick Social Business Christmas Gift Guide
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Are we ready to talk about social transformation?
What Is ‘Social Procurement’? And 5 Ways To Do It Right.
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Surviving And Thriving Through India’s COVID-19 Lockdown
5 social entrepreneurs leading innovation in the last mile logistics space in Europe.
Evolution or Revolution: The Role of Companies in the Purpose Economy
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Building The COVID-19 Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs
Yunus Social Business Kenya Launches Investment Readiness Programme 20/21
COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, Initiated by YSB and WEF’s Schwab Foundation
The Social Success Note Playbook Launches Today
Read Our Latest Impact Report
We took a holistic, expedient and humane approach to support smallholder farmers in Colombia
10 Social Enterprises We’re Backing to Change the Female Empowerment Space in 2020
The Life-Savers Now Need Saving
How grant funding came in at exactly the right time for waste pickers in São Paulo.
F-LANE Virtual supports social entrepreneurs with an ambition to create impact for women worldwide.
Program Managers From SAP, Airbus and Kohler Co. Share Their Experiences As Social Intrapreneurs
Business As Unusual: Releasing the Playbook For Designing Social Intrapreneurship Programs
“I Was Truly Blown Away When I Heard the News” - Yunus Social Business Has Distributed 650k USD to H
Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis, MBA Students Go Online to Support Our Social Businesses in India
“Going Back to That World Is Equal to Committing Suicide.” - Professor Muhammad Yunus on the Opportu
Yunus Social Business Co-Initiates New Alliance With World Economic Forum to Help Social Entrepreneu
Indian Social Business, Waste Ventures, Support Their Waste Pickers Through The Crisis
Meet the car of the future : environmental and practical
Thinking Ahead: Securitization Structure Helps to Democratise Technical and Medical Education in Bra
The (Hiring) World is your Oyster
Everything we learned from our first-ever virtual Impact Accelerator
Why we need social intrapreneurs more than ever during COVID-19
The 'Business As Unusual' Webinar
The Need of the Hour Amid COVID-19
Corona Pandemic: Time Is Running Out Fast, A Letter From Prof. Muhammad Yunus
It goes without saying, we are living through unprecedented times.
Remote Work is Here to Stay
NINA meets MAN: Fighting sexual harassment with the help of mobility experts
What are the Yunus Social Business team listening to? We list our favourite podcasts.
Scaling Impact: The MAN Impact Accelerator comes to Brazil!
Yunus Social Business Partners With Ikea Foundation to Empower Social Entrepreneurs in Developing Ec
Financing Farmers In Rural Uganda - Cycle Connect Is A Social Business Making Tracks To End Poverty
MIA Spotlight: The Solar Powered Motorcycle for Africa
YSB launches landmark research into Social 'Intra'preneurship at The World Economic Forum
MIA Spotlight: Adress(ya)-ing the issue: Improving Access & Opportunities
MIA Spotlight : With Eu Vô, Reduced Mobility does not need to prevent a Busy Social Life!
Shifting Mindsets in Munich: The MAN Impact Accelerator #3 journey begins
It's Giving Tuesday! Give What You Can Today.
MIA Spotlight : KOIKI, Delivering More Than Packages - Creating a Culture of Inclusion
Why it's Vital to Support Smallholder Farmers. Empowering the Weakest End of the Agricultural Chain
Take Part In Our Social Intrapreneurship Survey
Closing the gap between business and social impact
Meet the 8 social businesses of the MAN Impact Accelerator’s third Cohort
YSB and Spouts of Water have been featured in the Global Goals Cast
Arbusta: training, employing and developing youth in Colombia in the tech industry
Ist „#Social“ das neue „#Digital“? Unsere Gründerin Saskia Bruysten schreibt in Capital Magazin
Our first investment for the Kenyan Fund: BURN Manufacturing!
Why Now? Is the Social Business Movement Reaching A Tipping Point?
Join Yunus Social Business on the Global Climate Strike this Friday!
How being a Mentor in the MAN Impact Accelerator has shown me what matters most (Guest piece by Tom
Connecting (& Celebrating) Our Social Entrepreneurs: The Annual Portfolio CEO Forum in Bangalore
This electric rickshaw social business in India are cleaning up polluted streets
Accelerating Female Entrepreneurship in Brazil: Launching AMEI in São Paulo.
The MAN Impact Accelerator opens applications for a third batch!
Investment Readiness Programme in Colombia with The Boston Consulting Group
Harnessing the Power of Networks: Part III – Creating Communities
