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Accelerating the Shift to a Sustainable Future: How Entrepreneurs Can Solve the World’s Greatest Challenges
For the past 11 years, Agora Partnerships has supported the efforts of purpose-driven entrepreneurs to change their communities, their countries and the world. It has now aligned its work with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and its CEO, Ben Powell, discusses how those goals will affect its work.
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- Social Enterprise
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Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both Sides
The Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. The two groups found strong overlap not only in their shared goals of helping the poor, but also in the ways that they measure social impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: Uruguay smokes ‘Big Tobacco’, Safaricom ups the ante, critic pens a (RED) herring
Uruguay wins a major legal battle against a huge tobacco company, Safaricom ups the ante in its battle with banks in Kenya, and our editors take issue with a provocative critique of a popular "social venture" in this Roundup of the week's social business developments.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Equipping a New Era of Global Development
Sometimes it can feel like NGOs, social businesses and big development aid institutions are in competition with one another to improve the world. But in an increasingly complex world, we should view violent extremist organizations, such as ISIS, as development competitors. This perspective was a running theme – but one of several facing social entrepreneurs and global development leaders at all levels – discussed at Devex World.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Post-conflict Colombia: A Crucial Time to Re-evaluate the Role of Inclusive Business
After over 50 years of internal armed conflict between the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country is starting to lay the foundations for a stable and lasting peace. The business sector has been called on to contribute to the post-conflict process, and inclusive businesses offer a clear way to do so. However, though Colombia's traditional approach to inclusive business has produced significant results for enterprises and communities, the impending post-conflict era demands a re-evaluation of how the sector operates.
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How Leveraging Collaborative Expertise Helps Scale Social Impact
Organisations, networks and government should foster a culture of ongoing interactions with people from other sectors and collaborate to develop new structures and business models that can be replicated. The commitment demands time and extended effort. But for those with an appetite to buy into the risk, there is a tremendous potential for social ventures to scale and create a massive impact.
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- Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: How Brexit Could Impact Emerging Markets + Other Non-Brexit News
We could not call this a Weekly Roundup without addressing Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (spoiler alert: like most economists, we're struggling to see any upside.) But for those readers who've had their fill of Brexit news, we have plenty more developments to share, including Capria Accelerator's new $100 million fund, Waste Ventures' tie up with Coke, and the dark side to alternative credit scoring.
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