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Friday
July 31
2015Previewing SOCAP15: A rundown of this year’s agenda – and a $500 discount for NextBillion readers!
Now in its eighth year, SOCAP15 will convene leading impact investors, world-class entrepreneurs and innovative cross-sector practitioners for three full days of networking and engaging content. The event will be held at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA, Oct. 6-9, and NextBillion readers can get a $500 discount.
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Saturday
July 25
2015Weekly Roundup 7/25/15: ‘Worm Wars’ and other conflicts from the past week
Maybe it’s the heat, but as we approach the dog days of summer, people seem to be in a fighting mood. This week featured plenty of conflict, involving companies, nonprofits, politicians – and even researchers. Grab some popcorn as we cover the hostilities – and compile some memorable tweets – in this Roundup.
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- Education, Health Care
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Saturday
July 18
2015Weekly Roundup 7-18-15, Twitter Top Ten: Steering global development toward pro-poor trade
Assisting, or in some cases pressuring, countries to improve their performance is where development banks and agencies can make a difference in steering the big aircraft carrier of global development toward pro-poor trade. But without the data and research to know how to back up the dollars, they may be using wooden paddles in rough water.
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Saturday
July 11
2015Weekly Roundup 7-11-15: Sports for Girls, Marriage Counseling for EU/Greece, Tweets for All
The NextBillion team is a bit far-flung as the summer season hits high gear, so we’re continuing our experiment of combining our weekly Roundup with our list of Twitter favorites.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Friday
July 3
2015Weekly Roundup 7-3-15, Twitter Top Ten: An NB mashup in honor of America’s birthday
It’s hard work to identify entrepreneurs who are finding solutions and building markets in developing countries. (Certainly harder, for instance, than writing a check to a legacy charity.) It’s even more difficult to decipher the dynamics in these emerging markets and to tweak those dynamics in a way that enables support to reach those who need it. It takes more than money; it takes involvement.
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Saturday
June 27
2015Twitter Top Ten 6-27-15: How well is your being? We’ve got the stats in our weekly compilation
We came across some doozies this week as we sniffed around the Twittersphere in our search for the best of the best. We learned that free’s not always a good thing; it’s possible for Bill Gates to give away EVEN MORE money; and Panama leads the world in "well-being." Again. (We were well-schocked.)
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Friday
June 26
2015Weekly Roundup 6-26-15 : Financial inclusion beyond gender currency, public health and e-cigs, and what you can learn from 12 years of scaling up
Beginning this week, we will be doing a little remix of the weekly roundup. To start, we’re going to be publishing it on Fridays instead of Saturdays. Secondly, each week the entire NB team will be providing articles and mini-analyses from the world of social enterprise from a variety of angles - financial innovation, health and business development, to just name a few.
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Saturday
June 20
2015Twitter Top Ten 6-20-15: Twitter’s bounty in 10 favorites this week
Advocacy, accolades, advice and aphorisms. Those four A’s describe most of the Tweets that we have hand-picked for you this week from the world of global health, business development and impact investing – to name just a few.
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