Articles by Scott Anderson
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Thursday
July 21
2011Introducing Citi Foundation, NextBillion?s Sponsoring Partner
I’m happy to announce the Citi Foundation as the inaugural sponsoring partner of the NextBillion Network. Like NextBillion, the Citi Foundation highlights innovations, leaders and initiatives to combat poverty through enterprise. This grant will be used to redesign NextBillion’s network of sites and vastly improve the reader experience.
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Friday
July 15
2011Friday Roundup ? 7/15/11 In Pepsi Vs. Coke Battle, Low-Income Consumers May Win
PepsiCo has been unable to answer Coke’s dominance in the Indian soft drink market with the 5-rupee price point Chhota Coke. But PepsiCo’s major push in India around healthy, iron-rich snacks packaged in small portions and costing around 2 rupees (4 cents) apiece may show the battle for the BoP consumer has been joined.
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Wednesday
July 13
2011Global Impact Investing Network Hires First CEO
The Global Impact Investing Network (GINN) announced it will hire Luther Ragin, Jr., an impact investor and executive who has held various banking and foundation positions, as its first chief executive. He managed the F.B. Heron Foundation endowment since 1999 and is credited with building a $260 million portfolio while increasing impact investing.
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Tuesday
July 12
2011Unreasonable Investor Day (And Night)
Set for July 18 at the Hub SoMa, a Bay Area social ventures incubator, is culmination of the six-week Unreasonable Institute in Boulder, CO. Before anyone breaks out the sleeping bags, Unreasonable Institute will host a pitch event involving 26 of the Unreasonable fellows and up to 100 impact investors in attendance.
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Friday
July 8
2011Friday Roundup 7-8-11: The Wisdom of the Crowds (Funding)
We’ve been talking about the promise and, as some see it, the perils of Impact Investing this week and continuing through the month, on our newly launched Big Idea Page. Whether technically "impact" investing or not, the week saw several major deals break for socially inclined enterprises.
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Friday
June 17
2011Friday Roundup – 6/17/11: Building the BoP House
How big is the market for BoP housing? Well, HansonWade puts the figure at $381 billion a year by 4 billion low-income customers. Unlocking and serving that market by creating business models to scale up affordable housing finance, is the goal behind BOP Housing Finance conference.
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Friday
June 17
2011Cultural, Economic Shifts Lift Entrepreneurship in MENA
Theodore Khattouf, president and CEO of AMIDEAST, said the Middle East and North Africa region will need to create 90 million new jobs over the next decade to absorb the number of people seeking work. The keynote speaker at the Global Summit on Educating Entrepreneurs hosted by the William Davidson Institute framed the potential and the challenges.
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Tuesday
June 14
2011Karnani’s ’Fighting Poverty Together’ Advocates Eclectic Approaches
Aneel Karnani, perhaps one of the best-known skeptics of Base of the Pyramid approaches, corporate social responsibility and microcredit has a new book, Fighting Poverty Together. In it, Karnani levels familiar criticisms, but also provides many suggestions for how businesses, NGOs and governments should address poverty alleviation.
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