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Where Does Innovation Meet Scale?: Leveraging cross-sector collaborations to expand impact
How can the innovation of the social enterprise sector meet the scale of the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, or emerging market governments? This collision has the potential to create new systems, shatter old ones, and ultimately make us more effective and efficient at delivering products and services to the poor. Blair Miller explores some promising cross-sector collaborations - and the opportunities they signify for social enterprise.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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Mobile Money in Tanzania: Understanding consumers’ perspectives
After stagnating during the first two waves of our research, mobile money use among Tanzanian adults nearly doubled over the course of the study. Poor, rural women were consistently the least likely to use mobile money, while urban men above the poverty line were the most likely. However, we found that gender does not play as large a role in mobile money use as might be expected.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Tapping New Ideas in Social Entrepreneurship: Yes, they exist
Social enterprise as a discipline and practice is so new that many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t know where to begin. They can now find their way thanks to a new guide stocked with advice from the field. “Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation,” recently published by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, is a how-to on innovation geared toward social entrepreneurs and policymakers looking to improve their organizations.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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- research
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Social Enterprise Through a Wide Angle Lens : G20 Inclusive Business Workshop Asia focuses on benefits beyond income
Following the annual G20 Summit in Mexico last June, the G20 Challenge was created to celebrate some of the world’s most accomplished social entrepreneurs. Moreover, in order to showcase the winners and share lessons learned at a local level, it began its Regional Inclusive Business Workshops, which bring together select groups of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, policy makers, and academics to discuss salient challenges and innovative ways to surmount them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Re-evaluating Impact Evaluation: Why solely focusing on financials is flawed and other key points from a recent workshop
Organizations struggle to develop robust impact evaluations. If poorly designed and executed, an evaluation can result in misleading conclusions and waste precious resources. A recent workshop hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs focused on outcomes data collection and analysis. Anyone concerned with social impact measurement, will want to check out these key points.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013: The Global Hotspot for Innovation
Though the ecosystem is fairly developed in India, with innumerable incubators, investors, and facilitators, it is the entrepreneurs who continue to push the boundaries of innovation in India, capitalizing on the country’s rapid growth and optimism, and fighting head-on with the harsh realities of rural distribution, need-finding and scaling in a country where consumer tastes change every 100 kilometers, and institutional bureaucracy and corruption.
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- Social Enterprise
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Avoiding the Generation Gap : Young people and financial access, going beyond mobile money
For many young people, owning a phone is aspirational and closely tied to their self-esteem. The surge of young people with phones or phone access and the emergence of low-cost mobile banking technology suggests that it may be timely to engage them in accessing digital financial services and building their financial capabilities.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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The Questions of Sankalp Forum : Angels, incubators, impact measurement and who should pay for it all
Nearly 1,000 members of the impact investing community congregated at Sankalp Unconvention 2013 last week. The fact that this industry has grown so rapidly is anecdotally visible in the turnout at this event – while one would expect social enterprises and investing funds; the breadth of representation from other players was impressive: from incubators, international aid agencies, journalists, and academia to even tech consulting services, marketing and branding specialists. Some interesting themes emerged.
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- Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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