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Sankalp Social Enterprise Award Finalists and the Stories They Tell : Videos exemplify the spirt of social entrepreurs
It’s a long road to the coveted Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards trophy. India’s leading social enterprise awards run through a process that lasts close to six months, and sees a hard-fought battle.
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Congratulations to the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition Winners
Expanding solar products in Africa, reducing infant blindness for premature babies in India, branding an organic biodegradable chewing gum from farmers in Mexico - these were among the winning business cases in our annual competition.
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It’s Time to WASH Up: Three lessons for developing effective water, sanitation and hygiene interventions
The lack of access to safe sanitation and clean water holds back social and economic development through negative impacts on health, education and livelihoods. Research shows the situation can be improved through interventions that place an emphasis on the end beneficiary and leverage local private-public expertise in design and delivery.
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Interested in “Last Mile” solutions in a European context? We want to pick your brain
Help identify innovative partnership models to provide solutions to the Last Mile Challenge! No registration is needed, just gather all the ideas you have and come to comment, share and contribute on the online Google document. Changemakers will facilitate a dynamic ONLINE BRAINSTORM on 3 to 6pm CET on Wednesday, April 2.
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Rwanda’s Push for Financial Inclusion: The government has set a target of 90 percent financial inclusion by 2020
Six years ago, the 2008 FinScope survey found that just 21 percent of Rwandan adults were participating in the formal financial sector. Largely in response to these figures, the government launched bold initiatives focused on financial inclusion. Now, according to World Bank researcher Douglas Randall, signs of progress are everywhere.
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An Open Letter to Larry Page: Paul Polak urges Google CEO to invest in for-profit poverty alleviation
Google CEO Larry Page recently said he’d rather hand over his cash to Elon Musk, of Tesla, than donate it to a philanthropic organization. In an open letter, social entrepreneurship veteran Paul Polak suggests a third way for Google to make money and help the poor.
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NexThought Monday – Making the Food Trade Work for All: On Cesar Chavez Day, approaches to growing quality food that uphold human dignity
Whether it’s a pineapple farm in Costa Rica or an apple farm in North America, farm workers can often find themselves a part of a globally marginalized, transient and largely invisible workforce that brings us our food each day. Just as the issues in our global food systems cannot be addressed by problem-solving in one region alone, restoring pride and dignity to the American farm worker also requires a far more global perspective and approach.
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Weekly Roundup – 3/29/14: Blurred Lines in Banking – the changing definition of “bank” at the BoP
The Internet has reshaped banking in the U.S., where half of the population hasn’t entered a bank branch in the past month. This evolution has been even more dramatic at the BoP, where mobile and branchless banking services are making brick-and-mortar banks increasingly obsolete. We take a look at these changes in this week’s Roundup.
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