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Benevolent Entrepreneurs, between ethics and entrepreneurship

Les Entrepreneurses Bienveillantes is an association bringing together a network of women entrepreneurs who are both ethical and sensitive to ecology. Born from a Facebook group, the association then took a completely different turn by developing further. Created in Bordeaux, the association is now composed of 5 members including the president, the 2 deputy presidents, the treasurer and the secretary. The network thus proposes several concrete actions to support women entrepreneurs in their projects. The objective of the Benevolent Entrepreneurs is to deploy the network beyond the Bordeaux region where it was born. Thus, this will allow the movement to grow more and thus reconcile entrepreneurship and ethics.

Thus, undertaking while taking into account the environmental issues that surround us is essential. Indeed, these issues are taking a very worrying turn. Tomorrow’s entrepreneurs must take them into account.

Les EntrepreneursEs Bienveillantes, the opening of its network beyond Bordeaux

Caring Entrepreneurs is a network of women entrepreneurs born via a Facebook group 2 years ago. The aim of this group was to bring together women adhering to values such as ecology, ethics and empowerment. Thus, the group subsequently grew and became an association. It offers personalized support to each of the entrepreneurs. Ranging from workshops, afterworks and mentoring,Caring Entrepreneurs encourages the entrepreneurs of tomorrow to create eco-responsible and ethical companies. In addition, solidarity projects are also set up to provide support to associations with a positive impact. Apart from the support and experience provided by the members of the association, these missions also make it possible to create a real symbiosis between these women.

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The main values of Caring Entrepreneurs are solidarity, ethics and ecology.

To celebrate the 2 years of the association,les Entrepreneurses Bienveillantes aims to develop its association to impact More widely France and the world by the continuity of its actions undertaken. Composed of more than 175 members in 2020,the association opened its membership in January 2021. Registration is done in a quick and easy way via the HelloAssosite. To register, a symbolic annual fee of 10 euros is mandatory, with the possibility of making a donation of your choice in addition. All the funds raised will be used to set up solidarity projects or to create a forest. In addition, on the occasion of her birthday, the Benevolent Entrepreneurs plan to create new things such as a Podcast, face-to-face afterworks if the health situation allows it, summits with experts… So many new projects to continue to evolve the association and make it grow.

Undertaking taking into account environmental issues, a mandatory process

Entrepreneurship in an eco-responsible way has become essential for companies. Indeed, the environmental consequences mainly due to human activity and companies are getting out of hand.

Each company is therefore obliged to calculate its Carbon Footprint in order to measure the greenhouse gas emissions that the company emits. Thus, this will then make it possible to draw up a plan with the aim of reducing its emissions and thus participating in the modification of the behaviour of companies.

In addition to the carbon footprint, some everyday actions can be modified and thus become more eco-responsible. This includes recycling paper, sorting emails on computers, turning off electronic devices instead of putting them into standby mode, turning off lights during the day, etc. These are small actions that are easy to carry out and without additional costs. To go further, companies can decide to take concrete action to reduce their environmental impact. For this, the change of providers to more eco-responsible providers or the redesign of the production strategy are solutions to consider.

Entrepreneurship in an eco-responsible way can be achieved from the beginning of the creation of a company or later. Nothing is recorded so everyone is able to change their way of producing for the benefit of respect for the environment.

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The first French professional network that combines entrepreneurship and ecofeminism celebrates its 2nd anniversary,Les Entrepreneurses Bienveillantes, press release of June 2021

Membership in the Benevolent Entrepreneurs network,HelloAsso

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