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Best practices for social business to be shared at Social Business Lab of The Grameen Creative Lab, April 11, 2010 Washington, D.C.

Unique workshop, coinciding with 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, to feature Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Grameen Health, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

WASHINGTON D.C. February 25, 2010 � The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress is pleased to announce the Social Business Lab of The Grameen Creative Lab, a unique one-day hands-on workshop that will provide a setting to learn about best practices for social business. Led by Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Grameen Health, participants will come from the business sector, academia, civil society, non-profit sector and other areas.

The interactive session will explain the Social Business model that Grameen Health, Danone, Veolia, BASF, Aravind and others are using to make a sustainable business to meet social needs normally relegated to welfare or charity. The Grameen Creative Lab is designed to accelerate and spread the spirit of Grameen social business under the principals of Professor Yunus.

• WHAT: The Social Business Lab of The Grameen Creative Lab
  
• WHEN: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• WHERE: The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Washington D.C.
• PROGRAM AGENDA: Social Business Lab of The Grameen Creative Lab

Goals of a Creative Social Business Lab:

• Develop systemic understanding of social business
• Understand the benefits that social business can have for society
• Exchange best practices and learn more about examples of social businesses
• Foster creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, Identify existing social needs in your society Collectively brainstorm and create ideas for a social business based on your skills and local setting
• Build up the foundation for concrete social business initiatives in the future
• Connecting people with similar social business ideas and aspirations

About The Grameen Creative Lab
The Grameen Creative Lab is a Joint Venture between the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh and circ responsibility in Germany, founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz, founder and creative director of circ. The Grameen Creative Lab is designed to accelerate and spread the spirit of Grameen social business under the principles of Prof. Yunus through three main activities. 1) It interacts with the interested community through books, articles, and events on social business. 2) It incubates social business ideas through brainstorming labs, academic research and social business experiments. 3) It creates social businesses by advising companies on how to set-up social business joint ventures with Grameen in Bangladesh or elsewhere and supporting social business investors in their search for suitable investment opportunities.

About the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress
The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2010 conference will convene over 1,700 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agency policy makers. For more information, visit. www.worldhealthcarecongress.com