Articles by Josh Cleveland
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Guest Articles
Friday
September 9
2011Why Should a Mainstream For-Profit Company Pursue an In-Kind BoP Partnership?
Many entrepreneurs and funders at SOCAP11 are skeptical about partnerships - and rightly so. But sometimes all the work to make partnerships click pays off. In the case of an ongoing partnership between UNICEF and for-profit Frog Design, the impact results in Malawi and Zambia include a 30% increase in early diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in children.
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- Social Enterprise
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Thursday
September 8
2011Three Lessons for Creating Real, Scalable Impact
The Mulago Foundation maintains a striking level of focus on real impact. They are not alone in addressing market and government failures with grants and low-interest loans. But their singular focus on measuring real impact that overcomes those failures in the geographies where those failures are the hardest to solve sets them apart.
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- Impact Assessment
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
September 6
2011SOCAP11: Waste Management that Works
Parag Gupta, founder and CEO of Waste Ventures recently told me that urban India produces a mound of garbage that weighs twice as much as the Empire State Building every week. In that big pile of trash, Gupta and his team identified a glowing opportunity for economic, social, and environmental impact.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Tuesday
August 23
2011Accelerating BoP Development at the Intersection of CSR & Impact Investing
Innovation in base of the pyramid development flourishes at the intersections. Through a new collaborative model, the BoP management strategy and innovation firm, I-DEV International, focuses on the intersection of multi-national corporate interests and impact investing to build lasting, profitable, and high-impact SMEs at the BoP.
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Monday
July 11
2011The Argument for a Single Bottom Line
What if you were able to link social investments to bottom line ROI? Jonathan Berman and Daniel Altman of Dalberg Global Development Advisors recently presented this argument in "The Single Bottom Line." They say companies don’t need to focus on a double or triple bottom line in order to justify doing good - if they change their time horizons.
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Tuesday
May 31
2011Why Should Your Company Engage the BoP?
Why do corporations engage with the base of the pyramid? There appear to be several distinctly different answers to this question. My conversations with corporate leaders hoping to pursue social impact and new market growth in BoP markets reveal a frequent lack of clarity about not just how to do it, but more importantly, why they should do it.
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- Impact Assessment
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Friday
March 18
2011Leading the Next Wave of Corporate BoP Engagement
Most multinational corporations (MNCs) just don’t find the social business at the BoP niche attractive yet - or at least not enough to hire a large consultancy to come figure out how to make it work for them. Those successful in developing financially viable solutions to social issues within a large organization are known as social intrapreneurs.
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Tuesday
March 1
2011Healthcare Series: To Emerging Markets and Back Again (Part 2)
In every village where Healthpoint operates, it builds a permanent clinic, which costs roughly $50,000. Through the clinic, the organization provides North India residents with access to technology in the form of telemedecine, a diagnostics lab, provision of medicines and clean water. "Partnering is critical," says Healthpoint Founder Al Hammond.
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- Health Care