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Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community development
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care
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Impact investing: Making the case for low-margin, high social return investments
Capital from impact investing often acts as a catalyst to commercial capital. For instance, it helps to showcase the viability of new business models and products, and it drives existing enterprises toward improved services and new geographies. But organizations that don’t generate commercially attractive returns often can’t attract mainstream capital. Geeta Goel argues that in these cases, impact capital focused on social impact has a vital role.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Rethinking Impact and Redefining Success: Highlights from Unite for Sight’s Social Entrepreneurship Institute
Unite For Sight recently hosted its inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Institute, a day-long event dedicated to social entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors, including health care. Speakers focused on several key best practices in social entrepreneurship, from beginning an organization to measuring impact and eventually scaling up.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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The Power of Interoperability: An interview with Zahir Khoja, CEO of MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions
Lack of interoperability is widely seen as a key barrier to mobile money’s global uptake. But MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions thinks it has found an answer. In this interview with Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman (part 3 of our Mobile Money Movers series), CEO Zahir Khoja discusses the challenges of working with telcos, banks and merchants, and the ways that an interoperable payment tool can impact people’s daily lives at the BoP.
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- Finance
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A Year Your Grandmother Could Love: Crystal ball says in 2014, it’s back to basics like “Wash those hands!”
There will be no small amount of technological innovation in 2014, according to our prognostication, but there will also be a renewed focus on tried-and-true, small steps that could have a huge impact on global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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A New Way to ‘Experience’ Favelas: A social enterprise bringing tourists and favela residents under one roof
Favela Experience offers authentic room and apartment rentals to travelers in Rio’s safe and vibrant favela communities. The social venture aims to generate sustainable income for favela host families while breaking negative stereotypes about favelas.
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Building an India-Africa Pipeline – Part One: Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference focuses on South-South social innovation transfer
How can an India-Africa innovation transfer be hastened? What are the risks? That will be the top agenda point of Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference, an industry gathering of more 350 funders, entrepreneurs, intermediaries and others on Feb 12-13 in Nairobi.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday – Announcing the Most Influential Posts of 2013
We asked for your vote, and NextBillion readers cast more than 16,000 in our contest to pick the Most Influential Post of the year. Here are your winners for 2013.
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