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Part 1: From Local to Global: Unite for Sight’s Expanding Impact
Jennifer Staple-Clark was a sophomore at Yale when she founded Unite for Sight as a student organization in 2000. Her goal was to help underserved people in her local community overcome barriers to eye care. Twelve years later, Unite for Sight has become an acclaimed global NGO, serving 1,500,000 patients and facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries. In Part 1 of our Q&A with Staple-Clark, she discusses Unite for Sight’s unique model and remarkable evolution.
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Building India’s Social Enterprise Ecosystem – Where it Matters
While the dozens of conferences, competitions, incubators, impact investors, and online platforms have ushered in a new wave of dedicated social entrepreneurs, they still only reach urban-educated entrepreneurs. For these entrepreneurs, the connection to rural India can be as unfamiliar as a foreign country. Recently, different platforms have begun to reach out beyond the busy metropolises.
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Special Series (Part 4): BPO for the BoP – Work+Study=Job: Understanding of employment impact of a mid-stage Impact Sourcing Service Provider in Africa
As we continue to profile innovative Impact Sourcing Service Providers (ISSPs), this post focuses on Daproim Africa, a mid-stage firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. Daproim, which was has been in operation since 2006, is on a mission is to provide high- quality business process outsourcing services that are geared to providing jobs and ensuring a transformational impact.
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The Weekly Roundup (2/2/13) : Formal, informal and ‘Unreasonable’
This week’s roundup looks at tactics for building a BoP customer base, the new Informal City Dialogues project and the 2013 cohort of social entrepreneurs hoping to attend the Unreasonable Institute.
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Asia’s Rising Economic Tide Doesn’t Lift All Boats: Multiple strategies for inclusive business investment from the ADB Forum
At the conclusion of a two-year scoping study of how to optimize financial support for inclusive businesses in the Asia Pacific, the Asian Development Bank convened the first Regional Forum for Investing in Inclusive Business in Asia last November, at its headquarters in Manila. The event brought together regional company executives, social impact investors, and development agencies to discuss how all of these actors can better support private sector engagement in inclusive development through targeted investment.
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And the Most Influential Post of 2012 is … Drumroll Please
Some 731 of you cast ballots the Most Influential Post on NextBillion in 2012. Thank you for participating! … And now, here are the results.
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Doing Good Business for Better Health: The view from drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on expanding access
Allan Pamba, director of Public Engagement & Access Initiatives for the Developing Countries Unit of GlaxoSmithKline, talks about what GSK is doing to meet the health care needs of BoP countries without compromising its commercial success.
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Community + Entrepreneurship: How community can strengthen the impact movement – Watch the replay of the Google Hangout
Meet three of today’s daring impact entrepreneurs in a Google Hangout broadcasting live here at Nextbillion.net from 1-2 p.m. today (Jan. 30). This Hangout, entitled “Community + Entrepreneurship,” will explore a variety of themes around the importance of community to impact entrepreneurs across Latin America.
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