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Not Just Child’s Play: Why the financial services industry can – and should – support children’s well-being
A new research paper released by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) explores the relationship between a family’s financial health and its children’s well-being, illuminating the need and opportunity for financial services to play a greater role in supporting child and family success. Doing so can help providers deepen relationships with customers today and with their children in the future.
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Tools for Economic Empowerment: Virtual learning in the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship
In this, the third in a series of articles about women entrepreneurs participating in the year-long Vital Voices GROW Fellowship, they speak in glowing terms of the virtual learning part of their training. Next up, they'll gather for in-person training.
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Weekly Roundup 11-6-15: Rotary provides blueprint against disease, but passion’s hard to duplicate
Polio has almost totally been eliminated and Rotary International deserves much of the credit. As an added bonus, this U.S.-based service organization composed of business and professional leaders has given the world a playbook to fight deadly diseases.
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The Impact of Tech: Sandhya Hegde of Khosla Impact Fund discusses how high-tech solutions can transform lives at the BoP
Khosla Impact Fund is an early stage equity fund that focuses on tech startups that help improve the standard of living at the BoP around the world, with a particular focus on India and East and West Africa. In this interview, recorded at the recent SOCAP15 conference, general partner Sandhya Hegde discusses the sectors and social issues that lend themselves to tech solutions, how Khosla works to help grow the ecosystem for their investees, and other issues related to the impact of tech on the developing world.
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- Investing, Technology
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Identifying and Connecting Promising #Socents: Siemens Stiftung awards meant to help bottom-up solutions achieve high-level goals
Siemens Stiftung's "empowering people. Awards" are designed to identify promising technologies designed to benefit people without access to crucial basic services, add the innovations to a database available to the international development community, and connect the innovators on a common platform and offer them help where they need it.
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Will Southeast Asia Be the Epicenter of Mobile Finance and Commerce 2.0?: Ten takeaways from the Mondato Summit Asia
The Mondato Summit Asia explored the latest concepts and use cases in the mobile finance and commerce (MFC) ecosystem in the region. This post highlights 10 key takeaways from the conversation, as panelists and participants discussed whether Asia was on the cusp of "MFC 2.0."
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There’s an App for That Bureaucrat: Technology might be a solution to over-prescribing higher-priced drugs
The author says that in almost all countries that he's visited as a World Bank pharmaceutical expert, the costs for medicines reimbursement keep growing year over year at a much higher pace than overall health expenditures. He thinks technology might offer a way to disrupt that cycle.
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