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FEATURED EVENT: IMN’s Impact Investing Summit: March 14-15, Huntington Beach, California
IMN is hosting the inaugural Impact Investing Summit, which will take place on March 14-15, 2013, in Huntington Beach, CA. The conference will bring together experts across the impact investing arena to discuss the key topics of interest with their industry peers.
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Creating Employment Opportunities At the BoP: An Interview with Ajaya Mohapatra
A Q&A with Ajaya Mohapatra, Managing Director of Justrojgar India Private Limited – a for-profit venture bridging the demand-supply gap in informal sector jobs by sourcing, training and placing people living at the base of the pyramid.
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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 2
The One Million Community Health Workers campaign is launching an ambitious effort to achieve the UN’s Millenium Development Goals in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. In part 2 of our interview, project co-chair Dr. Prabhjot Singh discusses the ways the initiative could impact business development.
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Announcing: Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean, BASE II: June 6-7, 2013 in Medellin, Colombia
For the most up to date and in depth information on how to develop and deploy successful BoP business models, join Opportunities for the Majority Initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank in Medellin, Colombia on June 6-7, 2013 for the second Forum for the Development of the Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and the Caribbean, BASE II.
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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 1
With uneven progress and the 2015 deadline approaching, some have already written off the UN’s Millenium Development Goals as unreachable. But the One Million Community Health Workers campaign is making a final push to actually achieve them in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. The project’s co-chair, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, describes the initiative’s approach (and its risks) in part one of our interview.
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Special Series (Part 6): BPO for the BoP : Thoughts on moving impact sourcing forward
Impact Sourcing (IS) has the potential to alleviate poverty for millions of people in a sustainable manner through job creation in the formal economy. Each piece was intended to shed light on a different facet of Impact Sourcing. The insights were derived from a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and performed by the William Davidson Institute (WDI).
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Friday Roundup: Feb. 15, 2013
As you may know, I am helming NextBillion while managing editor Scott Anderson is off tending to more important matters. I expect, or should I say I hope, Scott will be back towards the end of next week.
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