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
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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La Laiterie du Berger achieved positive EBITDA for one month
on the Monday, 13 February, 2012 - 10:47
For the first time since danone.communities invested in the project in 2008, La Laiterie du Berger achieved a positive EBITDA for one month, in August 2011. This huge achievement on 1 month resulted from 2 main factors. First, ramadan in 2011 was from 1st to 30th August and yogurt consumption in Senegal peaks during Ramadan. The consumption is at its highest at the end of Ramadan, the “korite”, when families buy yogurt in buckets of 5 kilos. August 2011 was therefore THE time of year [...]
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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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« Poverty Reduction through Social Business ? », lessons learnt from Grameen joint ventures in Bangladesh (extracts)
on the Tuesday, 10 April, 2012 - 17:09
KerstinHumberg is Business Consultant with a leading international management consultancy for several years. During her academic career in geography, Kerstin has conducted researches about the impact of social business in the fight against poverty. For three years, she traveled on the field, in Bangladesh, many times, to study Grameen joint ventures, including Grameen Danone Foods Ltd. The result of her work has been published in a book, « Poverty Reduction trhough Social [...]
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