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The FOUND Middle Series: FUNDES in Latin America
Next in our video series, the FOUND Middle, we introduce Ueli Frei, executive director of FUNDES. Frei discusses the organization’s work helping large corporations organize their suppliers and distributors and facilitating sourcing from small businesses.
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- Investing
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- supply chains
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In Telemedicine, Often Old Habits Prove Bigger Challenge Than Technology Hurdles
In the rural town of Juvvalapalem, most residents seek the local Rural Medical Practitioners (also known as quacks) when they need medical treatment. This is just one of the challenges we’re dealing with at GloCare, an initiative to provide market-driven quality healthcare solutions to underserved populations through telemedicine.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies – Part 2
Whether you’re JP Morgan or a startup social enterprise fund, everyone faces inefficiencies, setbacks, and dead ends in finding and scaling companies. But there is some strength in numbers, and identifying the problems is the first step in solving them. I turn to six key leaders for answers.
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- Education, Environment
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- impact investing
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Monitor and Acumen Research Highlights Why Impact Investing Needs Philanthropy
Today, we are thrilled to release From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing, a new study by Monitor Group, in collaboration with Acumen, on the role of philanthropy in impact investing. From Blueprint to Scale is based on Monitor’s deep expertise, 60+ expert interviews and 10+ years of Acumen Fund data; it shows how grants are needed to bridge the gap when developing new business models that serve low income customers.
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Investing in Social Enterprise: Lessons from the 2012 Sankalp Summit
Imagine you have devoted the last three years of your life to coming up with a new innovative enterprise to meet the needs of the poor. You came up with the idea, worked tirelessly to prove the concept and put together the best team that you could find. Now imagine that you have 3 minutes to pitch years’ of work to a panel of impact investors who could help you take your business to the next level. This is exactly what a group of four budding social enterprises had to do at the Fourth Annual Sankalp Impact Investing Summit
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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FEATURED EVENT: SOCAP: Designing the Future – Amplifying the Impact
May 8-10, we will gather in the Scandinavian city of Malmö, Sweden for SOCAP: Designing the Future. We welcome you to join us and are happy to offer NextBillion readers a special 30 percent off with registration code NextBillion30.
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- Education
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- impact investing
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NexThought Monday: Changing Consumer Behavior Via Financial Literacy
After last year’s microcredit crisis in India, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have reconsidered not only how they lend to customers, but also what responsibilities they have to educate their customers in financial literacy. I recently interviewed Samit Ghosh, founder and CEO of Ujjivan Financial Services, who explained how an innovative financial literacy program developed by nonprofit Parinaam Foundation in collaboration with Ujjivan, seeks to change borrowing behavior.
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- Education
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Weekly Roundup: Brewing Inspiration (and Respect)
Two stories this week in the New York Times and Fast Company present arguments against paternalistic tendencies of linking aid to trade and advocate viewing and treating African entrepreneurs as you would any business hopeful.
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- Agriculture, Education
