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Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development
Last year, USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID jointly launched Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development to find tools and approaches for mothers and newborns in their most vulnerable hours. In the second round of the challenge, for which entries are due April 2, donor partners expect to award up to $13 million in as many as 30 grants.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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On World Water Day: Mapping the Water and Sanitation Sector
When considering the entrepreneurial landscape in the water and sanitation sector overall, there is an enormous opportunity for social investment to make an impact; however, in order to be successful, social enterprises will require innovative approaches to tackle the serious challenges that remain.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Separating Social from Eco: Why It’s Time to Think Differently About Impact Investing
The term impact investing is a convenient catch-all for harnessing profit-seeking investments to generate positive impact. But of course, there is no single tool to measure that impact – regardless of whether it’s societal or environmental. While both social and environmental outcomes must be understood to assess the full impact of a business, there are fundamental differences between the two.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Featured Event: Sankalp, Stitching Together the Social Enterprise Mosaic in India
The Sankalp Forum was created with the belief that social entrepreneurs have a role to play in development and inclusive growth. As one CEO put it the Sankalp Forum is not only "bringing together all the pieces of the social enterprise ecosystem, it forms the mosaic and gives the background in which the entire picture would shine.” At our annual summit on April 12-13, this is exactly what we will attempt to do.
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- Uncategorized
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From ‘A-Ha’ to Impact: Making it to Market
But like many “breakthrough” innovations such as digital cameras, tablets, and Apple’s pinch-and-zoom screen function (born in 1983), social impact technologies often languish before really reaching the market.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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NexThought Monday: FXB, Intervening Holistically for Economic Empowerment
Sean Mayberry, the CEO of the donor-funded FXB, says: "Ultimately, to lift families out of poverty permanently they need the long term ability to create their own revenue streams." FXB’s approach involves three-year programs to support families immediate needs first, and help them long-term achieve economic independence.
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- Health Care
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Roundup – 3/18/12: When Sharing Makes Sense
For social businesses, the perpetual pursuit of a model that works, a reliable customer base, honed relevant products, and a social impact can blot out all but the sun. Exposing your company to collaboration with a competitor to share technology or distribution networks, is an anathema to most social entrepreneurs Yotam Ariel argued this week.
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- Education
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Village Capital Expanding to Kenya, China in partnership with ANDE, Potencia Ventures
What if entrepreneurs could invest in each other? When we launched Village Capital three years ago, that’s the question we asked. And after ten pilots worldwide in four countries the answer is clear: peer-selected investment allows more companies to get funding and support faster, more effectively, and at lower-cost. This spring, Village Capital is coming to China and Nairobi with new partners.
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- Social Enterprise
