Articles by Elly Brown
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Wednesday
July 13
2011Spin Cycle to Empowering Women
Innovation creates capacity, allowing women to balance their time spent on productive activities. A washing machine can dramatically change the life of a mother and create time for more meaningful activities, including reading books to their children and educating themselves. But in order to truly empower women, we must go beyond the spin cycle.
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- Education
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Tuesday
May 31
2011What Contests, Soda, and the Internet Have to do With Distributing Solar Power in Tanzania
Angaza, a runner up in the 2010 Harvard Social Enterprise Pitch for Change Competition, is an enterprise aiming to illuminate the world through modular solar home lighting and battery charging systems. Building on success and challenges of others, we studied a broad range of distribution models to avoid challenges that befall many social startups.
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Tuesday
May 3
2011Balancing a Three-Legged Stool – Collaborations to Achieve Social Impact
The theme of last month’s Skoll World Forum, "Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks, and collaborative action," mirrors the trend to move beyond the traditional philanthropic approach of scaling high-performing social entrepreneurs toward a focus on synergy within and across sectors.
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- Impact Assessment
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Guest Articles
Thursday
March 10
2011Embracing Failure at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference
In business, failure is part of the game, but this reality is often taboo in the social sector. At Root Cause, Phil Buchanan of Tactical Philanthropy provided his thoughts on the importance of "learning from history" from successful philanthropic cases.
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- Social Enterprise
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- failure, social enterprise
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Wednesday
October 6
2010SOCAP 10: Harmonizing Tools to Measure Impact
Yet again, measurement continues to be a sexy topic. SOCAP 10 assembled social investors, social entrepreneurs, and supportive agencies to set the discourse on shaping an impact investing market based on transparency.
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