Two social enterprises recognized at Entrepreneurs for the World Awards

At the World Entrepreneurship Forum held in Singapore, two social entrepreneurs were recognized at the Entrepreneurs for the World Awards ceremony this evening.

This year’s winner of the Social Entrepreneur Award is William Drayton, founder of Ashoka, who was the person to coin the term ‘social entrepreneurship’.

Ashoka was founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization that supports over 2,000 Ashoka Fellows and their social enterprises by helping them scale globally.

Reese Fernandez, co-founder of Rags2Riches in the Philippines, won the Young Entrepreneur Award for her venture which recycles scrap material and transforms them into fashionable handbags, eyeglasses, or wine-bottle holders.

The other winners include: Anneli Hulthen, mayor of Göteborg, Sweden, for the Politician Award, and FOSUN International, for the Entrepreneur for the World Award. FOSUN is a Shanghai-based conglomerate with a wide array of activities such as pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

This is the first time the Forum is held in Asia. It is the first global think tank dedicated to entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and social justice. The founding members are Emlyon Business School in France, KPMG, Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship, and Nanyang Technological University.

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