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Word is Bond: At Duke’s Sustainable Business Summit, Excitement Around Social Bonds and Online Impact Investing Platforms
The theme of the 2012 Sustainable Business and Social Innovation (SBSI) summit at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business was Disrupting the Status Quo. Indeed, there was much discussion about new models to change business as usual in education, health and overcoming the mismatch between the size of social enterprises and the vastness of investing funds.
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- Health Care
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MobiPrize: Moving Minds, Moving the Urban Poor
If you are a social entrepreneur who has an innovative and replicable solution to local and global transportation challenges, you are eligible to win the MobiPrize: US $5,000 and a trip to Rio+20 (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, June 20-22, in Rio de Janeiro) and top-notch mentorship sessions with global experts in sectors relevant to transportation, livable and sustainable communities, business and social enterprise.
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- Technology, Transportation
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- transportation
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So You Want to Start a Social Enterprise? 10 Legal Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves and Their Partners First
As a corporate lawyer working at the intersection of start-up space and social enterprise sectors, I often find myself assisting co-founders in structuring relationships. The conversations are inherently complex; so here 10 questions I would advise founders and partners ask one another before launching a social enterprise.
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- Social Enterprise
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A Wish for Sharing: Why Social Entrepreneurs Don’t Need A Bottled Genie to Gain
More often than not, entrepreneurs who share the same mission – ending energy poverty, hesitate to share resources, even if we all benefit. What are we afraid of? Is it the fear that all our hard work simply paved the way for someone else to get credit for lifting a billion villagers out of energy poverty? Or maybe it’s the bucks we were planning to make while perusing our lofty goal?
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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NextThought Monday: From Job-Takers to Changemakers – Nurturing Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation in Higher Ed
A few weeks ago, the Ashoka U Exchange conference brought together 500 students, faculty, and staff as well as social entrepreneurs to connect and nurture collaboration for instilling a culture of entrepreneurship and social innovation in higher education. Ashoka U identifies and selects pioneer campuses and supports establishing campus change teams.
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- Education
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Roundup: Of Good News and Water Pipe Dreams
In the same week that world cheered for reaching the Millenium Development Goal for drinking water, Water for People released a new report: Private Sector Provisions of Rural Water Services. The study assesses both the “prominence and potential” of market-based approaches for clean drinking water distribution.
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- Agriculture
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In Egypt, Nebny’s Blueprint for Job Skills, Community Hope
In post-revolution Egypt, one group of young Egyptians, decided to rebuild Egypt through a different sort of NGO. Their vision was to create a youth-centered community development foundation the dual goals of building a sustainable economy, while simultaneously cultivate a sense of national identity and belonging: The Nebny Foundation.
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- Education
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Reflections On Microfinance: Past, Present and Future
Microfinance institutions depended on very low default rates coupled with rapid growth to provide adequate investor returns. Aligning loan officer incentives with repayment rates and customer service may have helped microfinance institutions become more customer centric.
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- Social Enterprise
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- microfinance
