Stories

Introduction Faced with the unprecedented internal and external challenges facing organisations in the humanitarian and social sector, the French Red Cross Foundation is proposing an innovative approach: using research to learn, adapt and support vulnerable people during and between crises. The Foundation, which celebrated 10 years of commitment to humanitarian and social research last October, […]

Red Social Innovation team interviewed Ifeyinwa Egwaoje about the recent report published by Ashoka Africa How INGOs and Social Entrepreneurs collaborate to transform global development. Ifeyinwa Egwaoje joined Ashoka as the Venture and Fellowship manager of Anglophone West Africa. Born in Nigeria where women are denied equal opportunities to men she decided to commit her life […]

Red Social Innovation team meets Navi Radjou. An innovation thinker who grew up in Pondicherry, in India. French on his father’s side, an officer in the French Navy, he left India to study business computing at École Centrale de Paris, in France, focusing his research on Open Information Systems and frugal innovation. “For decades, ingenious […]

The French Red Cross will be present at the 2023 edition of ChangeNOW which will take place from 25 to 27 May in Paris. This international event will host the actors of change: social enterprises, associations, investors and impact accelerators.