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Twitter Top 10 – 5/10/15
It’s Mother’s Day in the U.S., and we’ve put together a selection of tweets that anyone’s mother would love (assuming she’s involved in social enterprise or global development). This week’s tweets include case studies for impact investors, disturbing development’s on India’s financial inclusion front, and our usual array of resources and insights (along with some interesting gift ideas for mom.)
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – The Obligations That Come With Trading in Trust
Global health organizations trade in trust. One way to earn that trust is to function in a transparent way. Doing so can slow processes and increase workloads, but recent cases show that the extra effort is worth it.
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- Health Care
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- regulations
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Relief Through Finance: How microfinance builds resilience to disasters and crises
After a natural disaster or other crisis, like Nepal’s recent earthquake, the relief and aid community inevitably plays a major role. But according to Sam Mendelson, there is also a vital role for microfinance, which can help restore livelihoods and provide resilience to vulnerable populations thanks to existing relationships with clients that foreign NGOs lack.
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- Impact Assessment
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Comic (Book) Challenges to Chronic Problems: How students face the challenges of malaria, malnutrition through graphic novels, collaboration
For the third year in a row, fourth- and fifth-grade students at the American International School of Bamako in Mali collaborated with Mali Health and students from three local schools to create graphic novels on health-related issues.
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- Education, Health Care
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India’s Skills Training Maze : Why the country needs strong certification standards
Access to skills training is important, but the quality of the training is proving even more critical to the success of students. Without strong quality benchmarks, both employers and students will quickly lose trust in the skills development ecosystem, jeopardizing a widespread vision of a skilled India.
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- Education
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10 Key Takeaways from the 2014 Global Findex Survey: Highlights from the World Bank’s treasure trove of financial inclusion data
How many adults in the world have a bank account? How do people save, borrow, and manage financial risk? How is mobile money shaking up the financial inclusion world? The World Bank’s newly released Global Findex attempts to answer those questions, drawing from a database of 800 indicators, based on surveys with almost 150,000 people in 143 economies. CGAP presents 10 takeaways from the report.
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- Education
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Ending Energy Poverty? The Solutions Already Exist
Last week the charity SolarAid announced that it had hit a milestone by reaching 10 million people with clean, safe light. The social uplift this will bring is extraordinary – solar lights impact poverty, health, hunger, education, enterprise and the environment. At the same time, the announcement shows much more; that the potential of solar to empower rural African off-grid communities is beginning to be realised.
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- Energy
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- impact investing, solar
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Creating Your Own Luck: 5 Crowdfunding Tips for Social Entrepreneurs
Whether it involves smart watches or potato salad, it seems that every week brings another story of a crowdfunding campaign gone viral. And with $16.2 billion in annual funding, the industry represents a valuable opportunity for social enterprises large and small. Here are five tips that can help a social business launch a successful campaign.
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- Social Enterprise
