Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Tuesday
October 7
2008Water and Sanitation Discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative
Luckily there are live webcasts for the rest of us who were not able to sit at the sessions and ask questions during the sessions at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. ?I have spent a handful of hours during the last few days browsing around the content of this year’s CGI,...
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Thursday
October 2
2008Climate Adaptation Funding Priorities Emerge from World Bank?s Development Marketplace
Guest blogger Lauren Withey is a research analyst for the Climate, Energy and?Transport Program at the?at the World Resources Institute, in Washington D.C. By Lauren Withey"So, we are going to help the indigenous people of the Colombian Amazon raise bugs,” the young Colombian...
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Tuesday
September 30
2008Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Deepinder Mohan from Environment Planning Grou
This year, the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University piloted an approach to capture and diseminate systemic knowledge?about?community-scale water treatment and sanitation. Four of the?entrepreneurs this year?represented projects that address these challenges. Deepinder...
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Monday
September 29
2008NextBillion.net Welcomes Staff Writer Mark Beckford
The?NextBillion.net team is?proud to introduce its newest member: Staff Writer Mark Beckford. Mark is a veteran of corporate base of the pyramid strategies. He worked for Intel?from?1995 through 2008, where he?had a prominent role?shaping the company’s strategy in emerging markets....
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Wednesday
September 24
2008Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Alfonso Gamboa, from Saravia Blue Crab Coopera
In case you are not familiar with the video series we have been displaying over the past couple of weeks with entrepreneurs from Santa Clara University’s GSBI, make sure to catch up by meeting David, Tendai, Zipporah, Neelam and Christopher. Today’s turn is for Alfonso Gamboa, an...
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Tuesday
September 23
2008Guest Post: Reflections on my Summer Internship with Agora Partnerships
Guest blogger Liliana Valle is an MBA candidate at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She?recently?worked as?a Summer Associate with Agora Partnerships in Managua, Nicaragua. By Liliana ValleThe time had finally come,? I knew some day I would be back.? This summer I had...
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Friday
September 19
2008Advancing the Dialogue on Microfinance: New Center for Financial Inclusion Launched by ACCION
ACCION International has been instrumental in the rise and mainstreaming of microfinance as a key component of bottom-up approaches to poverty alleviation. It has played a key role in promoting thriving organizations that are bringing financial services to the poor. Under the leadership of...
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Thursday
September 18
2008Guest Post: Promoting Fair Trade and Social Enterprise in China – an Interview with Beijing Fair Fie
Guest blogger Muhan Cheng graduated from National?Taiwan University?with?a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and received her Masters Degree?in Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University, in 2008. She?currently?works as an?intern with the...
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