Articles by Scott Anderson
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Saturday
January 19
2013Weekly Roundup 1/19/13: A March conference focuses on Marketing to the BoP (A video Q&A with Hystra’s Kayser)
Olivier Kayser is the founder and managing director of Hystra, a for-profit firm that works with business and social sector innovators to design and implement hybrid strategies for businesses and NGOs working at the BoP. Hystra is releasing a new research paper “Marketing for the BoP," which will be the centerpiece of a March conference.
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Saturday
January 12
2013Weekly Roundup: Help Us Pick the Most Influential Post of 2012: Vote early and often
OK, if you’re like me you’re probably getting tired of the “Best of 2012” lists. But I hope you can handle just one more, especially because this is one list that you can influence.
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Monday
January 7
2013Impact Investors Ready to Open the Spigot : J.P. Morgan, GIIN study projects $9 Billion Committed for Impact Investing 2013
J.P. Morgan and the GIIN today released Perspectives on Progress, which takes the collective temperature of the impact investing community – and the mercury is rising. The 99 investors who replied said they plan to commit a total of USD $9 billion toward impact investments in 2013. That’s $1 billion more than these organizations said they invested in 2012.
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Saturday
January 5
2013Weekly Roundup – Lucky 2013? : The new year brings hope for seed funds
For the impact investing community, it sure looks like 2013 has started with a bang. But 2012 certainly didn’t end with a whimper either. The bang was heard on Thursday with an announcement from Unitus Seed Fund (USF), which raised investments of more than $8 million for early stage BoP startups.
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Saturday
December 15
2012Weekly Roundup : 6 Billion Mobile Users – Billions of Business Possibilities
This week a group of telecommunications and nonprofit leaders got together at the Brookings Institution to talk mobile technology, poverty, and business. The meeting was framed with commentary on how mobile devices and phones – growing ever smarter – are penetrating every corner of the world. With 5 billion of the 6 billion mobile users living the the developing nations, the infrastructure and the applications to go with it are expanding exponentially.
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Tuesday
December 11
2012Honoring November’s ‘NextBees’ : Buzz-worthy tales of bucking culture, reaching markets
Welcome to the second edition of the “NextBees,” our monthly awards recognizing the posts with the most – the most reads, the most comments and/or the most shares on social media – that is. The two most-read posts that also elicited the most reactions and shares on NextBillion in November, essentially, were all about bucking corporate culture.
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Saturday
December 8
2012Weekly Roundup: Giving the Gift of Social Enterprise, But How? : Help us build a list of for social enterprise giving/investing
It’s that time of year when charitable giving spikes. As the tax year comes to a close, many Americans scramble to make donations to help their fellow man – contributions they can also deduct from their taxes. But what about donations to help spur social enterprises serving the poor or helping the environment? Let’s make a list.
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Wednesday
December 5
2012Calvert Foundation’s ‘Accessible, Reliable’ Road for Impact Investing: CEO Lisa Hall discusses options for engaging investors
Calvert Foundation is at the apex of impact investing. As an organization, it has a lot to share in the way of knowledge and expertise, which is why I’m excited to announce that Calvert Foundation will be joining NextBillion as our most recent content partner. For an overview on the nonprofit lender’s 17-year history and for a sense of what’s next for both Calvert Foundation and the broader impact investing sector, I spoke with President and CEO Lisa Hall.
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