Articles by Sara Standish
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Wednesday
October 11
2006StartingBloc: Inside Edition
Q. What do young social innovators do for fun? A. Hang out at StartingBloc?s fall seminar, of course. About two months ago, while I was waiting for a phenomenally delayed plane at the Dulles Airport, I picked up a copy of the summer edition of Fast Company. Beyond the excellent article...
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Thursday
July 27
2006New Meso-Finance Mechanisms in South Africa
In my relentless search to find reasons to move to the fair city of Cape Town (as if biodiversity-friendly winelands, Lion’s Head & the 12 Apostles, and?the World Cup semi-finals in 2010?weren’t enough), I regularly read?South Africa’s Mail & Guardian.? ?I am rarely...
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Monday
June 26
2006Kiva’s Secret Weapon: Lower Cost of Capital
The second?part of NextBillion?s interview with Kiva focuses two issues that drive the organization?s success: Kiva?s value proposition within the greater microfinance community and strong partnerships that connect Kiva to its entrepreneurs. As many of you have read, microfinance has a...
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Wednesday
June 21
2006June Cleaver with a PayPal Account – Kiva Hits the One Year Mark
With my head spinning from the loftiness of an IDB infused week, I happily returned to reality in a conversation with Kiva, which--as many of you know--is leveraging micro-finance institutions (MFIs) to create virtual connections between investors and micro-entrepreneurs. This doesn’t sound...
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Thursday
May 18
2006Emerging Market Private Equity Conference PPTs Available
Just a quick note for those of you who are interested in venture capital / private equity in emerging economies: IFC and EMPEA hosted the 8th Annual Global Private Equity Conference in Washington, DC last week. Three power points are available on EMPEA’s website that have...
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Friday
April 14
2006Sustainable Business & Biodiversity
Just a short posting for those of you interested on what is being done to scale up biodiversity friendly businesses.? This was sent me to me by Mareike Hussels my colleague?at WRI’s New Ventures program, a business accellerator for sustainable business.? She attended an event?in Brazil on...
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Thursday
April 13
2006New Ventures at Latin American Venture Capital Association Meeting
Three members of the New Ventures team (Virginia Barreiro, Mareike Hussels, and Rodrigo Villar) attended the recent Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) meeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The conference featured more than 20 speakers from venture capital firms and development...
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Wednesday
April 12
2006Mainstreaming Climate Change and ’Green’ Investment Trends
In the last couple of weeks a number of issues near and dear to my hearthave gone mainstream...or at least they are getting a little more of thelimelight, which is fine by me. But, how did this happen? And whatdoes it have to do with emerging market investments in sustainable...
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