Articles by Kishor Nagula
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Guest Articles
Monday
October 29
2012Runa Tea’s Low-Calorie, High-Impact Model: With revenues reaching $1M Runa is generating income for 2,000 farming families.
A great-tasting, caffeine-containing, calorie-conscious tea WITH a sustainable environmental impact? I didn’t think such a product could exist until I looked into Runa Tea, one of the latest brands in the business with social impact space. Currently, Runa has revenues hovering around $1,000,000 annually and in turn is generating over $100,000 of direct income per year for 2,000 farming families. Founder Tyler Gage shares the inspiration behind the company.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition
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Friday
March 2
2012Roundup – 3/3/12: Profiting Off the Poor, the Ends vs. the Means
So this week’s batch of articles primarily has focused on the growth of mobile money, be it in banking or in the form of an e-wallet. It also settled a key debate around profiting off the poor, at least between Vikram Akula, then the founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, and Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus.
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Friday
January 28
2011A Fellowship In Social Enterprise for Undergrads? It’s Called IDEX
A fellowship in social enterprise geared for recent undergraduates? It exists! The IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise is specifically geared towards servicing the low-income education field currently in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The fellows program provides recent undergrads an opportunity to support social enterprises in the growing space.
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Thursday
December 30
2010Can Private Sector ?Greed? Manifest Into Transformational Development?
Okay, so I’m obviously pining for some exaggeration here, but with the base of the pyramid now seen as a veritable consumer demographic, can 2011 be the year where multinationals really start to delve into the BoP no longer for CSR but for profits?
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Thursday
December 2
2010Peace Dividend’s P2P Model For Financing Entrepreneurs in Post-Conflict Sudan
Building on microfinance approaches to informal loan markets, Peace Dividend is charting a new course in post-conflict Southern Sudan. Founder Melody Atil says the model directly connects borrowers to lenders through peer-to-peer networks, making it more flexible and with greater potential to operate at a larger scale than donor-funded programs.
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- Education
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- academia
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Tuesday
October 5
2010Day 1 at SOCAP 10: A Visceral Response
In this entry, I’ll briefly touch on a few key points made during the sessions I attended and conclude with some closing thoughts that I’d like to open up to the NextBillion community.
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Friday
August 20
2010Weekly Roundup: Special Rate for SOCAP 2010 & New Changemakers Competition
As the summer slowly comes to an end, the bustling social enterprise space continues to move forward. Here?s a brief overview of recent competitions/conferences that address many of the topics discussed at NextBillion:-Ashoka Changemakers and Omidyar Network’s competition on property rights and a special rate for SOCAP 10.
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Monday
August 9
2010DiasporaCamp DC 2010: Facilitating Access to Finance for African SMEs
Organized by an eclectic cast of students and business professionals with a keen eye towards Africa, Diaspora 2010 took place at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to discuss financial innovations for African small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
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