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The Toyola Money Box: The BoP marketing tactic you wish you’d thought of
It’s just a condensed milk tin with a hole in the top – empty, collected from garbage dumps by local kids.
But slap a masking tape label on it that reads “Toyola Money Box” and you have a piece of BoP marketing genius - a tactic that helps each Toyola salesperson sell around 4,400 cook stoves in rural Ghana a year.- Categories
- Technology
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Measuring Impact – Do Non-Profits Do It Better?: Reflections on Dasra’s Philanthropy Week
The number of millionaires in India is growing, and their interest in philanthropy along with the growth of corporate foundations in India means that the social sector will receive an infusion of capital. Born from an era of private sector growth these new funders will likely bring high expectations for scale and impact to the table when assessing social initiatives. Dasra’s Philanthropy Week, is a unique forum in India to compare a number of social enterprises to the standards of these high impact philanthropists.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Indian Philanthropy Forum 2013 Focuses on Adolescent Girls, USAID
The 4th annual Indian Philanthropy Forum by Dasra, as usual, brought together philanthropists and investors to discuss trending social issues in India today and brainstorm effective ways of engagement with the social and social enterprise sectors. This year a salient theme emerged through every session: the empowerment of adolescent girls.
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- Social Enterprise
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Innovation Forward and Backward: BRAC adapts its microcredit model to water, sanitation and hygiene
Innovators often focus on things that are radically new, when it’s sometimes preferable to adapt proven concepts to new spaces. BRAC has long been helping people in BoP communities form village organizations to obtain microcredit. Now it has applied this model to the problems of water, sanitation and hygiene through the WASH program. Babar Kabir, senior director of the program, explains its approach.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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NexThought Monday – Nutrients for All: Thriving ecosystems for productive, resilient food systems
Natural ecosystems ensure that vital nutrients flow from soils to food to people. Thriving ecosystems are the bedrock of healthy nutrient chains, the basis of all life on the planet. But human activity like unsustainable agricultural practices is threatening ecosystems around the world. Escalating stress on ecosystems increases the impact of climate change, and limits the availability of nutrient-enabling resources like water, topsoil and biodiversity. But though the issues are dire, there are solutions.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Weekly Roundup (3/9/13): Moving Closer to Financial Equality: Reflecting on International Women’s Day
Over the last couple of days NextBillion has been a platform for women with some important, concrete ideas on increasing financial inclusion and bridging the gender gap. These women leaders are illuminating not only the barriers to financial inclusion for women, but the ways over, around or under them.
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- Uncategorized
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In Honor of International Women’s Day, We Celebrate Women as Leaders : The Citi Foundation and Women’s World Banking team up to expand the Women in Leadership Program
The Citi Foundation and Women’s World Banking have joined together to increase the number of women leaders trained through the Women in Leadership Program. This year, we will focus on 40 high-potential leaders in South Asia and the Middle East/North Africa.
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- Education
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- microfinance
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“The Female Sanitary Revolution”: Disruptive innovations break taboos to promote women’s health
Every 28 days across the globe, half the world’s population menstruates. This presents a major challenge for millions of girls and women in BoP countries who can’t afford sanitary napkins. Cheaper alternatives like newspaper or rags are ineffective and unhygienic, often leading to health risks and absences at school or work. Fortunately, new innovations promise to lower prices and revolutionize female sanitation at the BoP.
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- Health Care
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- public health
