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Building the Evidence Base for SGBs: ANDE hosts 5th Metrics from the Ground Up Conference
In 2009, ANDE hosted the first Metrics from the Ground Up conference in partnership with the Grassroots Business Fund. This event dedicated two days to the discussion of impact measurement, bringing together data wonks, evaluation specialists, technology gurus, and SGB sector practitioners - the whole ecosystem of people we needed to start building intelligence on the sector. Fast-forward four years, and ANDE is planning to host its fifth Metrics from the Ground Up conference on June 12-13.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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The G8 Social Impact Investing Forum: A defining moment on the world stage
Impact investing arrived on the world stage last week, heralded as a transformative tool with the potential to reshape global capital markets in the years to come. Impact investing, very simply defined, is investing which generates both a social and financial return. The forum was sponsored by the UK government, conceived of by the Big Society Capital Chairman Sir Ronald Cohen and attended by impact investment professionals from across the globe with delegates representing all of the G8 nations.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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NexThought Monday – Want to Help Africa’s SMEs? Improve Their Internet Access: A new report from Dalberg highlights the Web’s huge social and economic potential
As part of Dalberg’s Impact of the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Study, a recent survey by Dalberg Research shows just how important the Internet is to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. African policymakers–already concerned with SMEs as an engine for growth and job creation–may do well to prioritize Internet access and use among SMEs.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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From Cataracts to Killer Monkeys: The growing need for surgery at the BoP (Bi-Weekly Checkup, 6/8/13)
Right now, over 2 billion people lack access to adequate surgical services, and an estimated 56 million people across Africa are in need of surgical treatment. What’s more, the need for surgery may be poised to expand significantly. Is the global health community responding? We explore the issue in our Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Understanding What Makes Impact Accelerators … Accelerate : New ANDE/Village Capital report
Over the past year, Village Capital and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) have been working together to learn what’s working. We have surveyed more than 50 self-identified “impact accelerators” — ventures looking to provide education, training, capital, and assistance to early-stage impact enterprises, and this week, we’re releasing what we’re learning.
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The Three ‘Tyrannies’ Shaping BoP Business Today: Hart details the evolution of the sector at the II Base Forum
As a keynote speaker at the IDB’s BASE II Forum International Thursday in Medellin, Colombia, Stuart Hart recognized the important moment that BoP strategies and practices are having worldwide. He pointed to three "tyrannies" that are holding back the business movement.
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Does Your City Have What it Takes? : Sandbox Network launches expansion campaign
Founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs from Switzerland and Germany — including current CEO Nico Luchsinger — Sandbox presently has more than 800 members in 25 hubs spanning four continents. Now the New York City-based network is looking for cities around the world eager to become part of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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- Social Enterprise
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Diagnosing Jaundice by Phone: How ClikJaundice is using mobile technology to empower parents at the BoP
Jaundice is a potentially serious but easily treatable condition affecting about half of the world’s newborns. But at the BoP, limited access to health care can make it difficult to diagnose, putting babies at risk of severe brain damage. Now, in India, a new mobile tech product called ClikJaundice is providing remote diagnosis of jaundice at an affordable price.
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- Health Care, Technology
