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Can Mobile Money Really Transform the Lives of the Poor?: BRAC will discuss its potential at the 2nd Frugal Innovation Forum on March 28-30
By the end of 2014, there will be more mobile phones than people in the world. This opens up a significant opportunity for new strategies to help people move out of poverty. But how big can the impact be, and what obstacles stand in the way? These and other topics will be under discussion at BRAC’s 2nd Frugal Innovation Forum on March 28-30, 2014.
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Insuring Impact: A Q&A with the co-founder of HUGInsure, the world’s first social impact insurance
Few new products or concepts can be described as "the first of their kind." But Dalberg and Hollard Insurance recently launched what they believe to be the world’s first social impact insurance entity, HUGinsure. It applies rating methodologies and risk management principles to social impact funding, helping facilitate loans to projects that impact the poor.
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- Impact Assessment
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Gum Arabic – the Crop that Binds : The Sudanese commodity that nearly every soda, pill and candy needs
Without a magical little ingredient called gum arabic, all the sugar in your soda would sink to the bottom of the can. Made from the hardened sap of the acacia tree, gum arabic is a little-known additive and adhesive critical in foods, medicines and cosmetics. Farmers who grow gum arabic should be benefitting financially from producing such a widely used crop. Instead they suffer at the base of a supply chain that faces an incredible spread of challenges.
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Weekly Roundup 2/8/14: Why the Hult Prize is Tackling Health Care in the Slums: Social entrepreneurs tackle toughest ‘President’s Challenge’ yet
Teams of four or five students are being asked to “build sustainable and scalable social enterprises to address non-communicable disease in urban slums.” And, to top it off, the challenge calls for all this to be completed by 2019.
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- Education, Health Care
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Njambre and Arbusta: A mini case study in impact sourcing, co-creation in Latin America
When we created Njambre, a social enterprise accelerator in Buenos Aires, Our biggest added value comes from engineering things from the start: identifying a social problem, designing the solution, recruiting the entrepreneurs to lead the start-up and partnering with them. That’s what we did with Arbusta, which we believe is the first impact sourcing company in South America.
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- Technology
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A Bank Account for All Adults … By 2016: India’s Nachiket Mor committee report has made headlines – will it make an impact?
In India, 40 percent of the population doesn’t have access to financial services. But a Reserve Bank of India committee has recommended providing bank accounts for all Indian adults by 2016 - and it has an intriguing plan for doing so. Some see this as “the starting point for a new financial architecture" in India. Will the impact measure up to the ambition?
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‘A Meeting of Minds’: World’s largest global health and social entrepreneurship conference set for April
The 11th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University will draw more than 2,200 participants from around the world. Speakers will cover a variety of topics, including social entrepreneurship, social businesses, business in global health, design thinking, maternal and child health, and non-communicable diseases.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Banking on Impact: Building the business case for social and environmental due diligence in lending
Conducting social and environmental due diligence can be a challenge, but Root Capital has found that its financial costs are surprisingly low, and its financial benefits surprisingly large. It has published scorecards and methodology that other financial institutions can use to partially avoid the fixed costs of developing their own due diligence tools.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, lending
