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Weekly Roundup – 3/15/14: What it might take to change the mind of ‘vaccine truthers’
What if affluent "vaccine truthers" saw firsthand the reality of life in the developing world, where death and debilitating illnesses are the daily result of infectious diseases for which the prevention has been known for decades?
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- Education, Health Care
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The 5th Annual Impact Conference at Sustainatopia: One of the world’s largest impact investing conferences to be held in Miami, April 16-18, 2014
Sustainatopia is one of the world’s largest events for social, financial, and environmental sustainability, drawing over 350 speakers and hundreds of attendees from 40 countries. Its Impact Conference will feature some of the top names in impact investing and social enterprise. As a media partner, NextBillion will provide extensive coverage and interviews with several key speakers.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Investing In Women: An inside look at Merck’s $3 million commitment to India’s largest maternity care franchise
Merck for Mothers Executive Director Dr. Priya Agrawal explains why her organization is investing $3 million in the scale-up of MerryGold Health Network: "Because India has more maternal deaths than any country in the world."
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- Environment, Health Care
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- scale
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Know Thy Hospital: Engineers and entrepreneurs are rethinking medical device design, and the world could be healthier as a result
Well-meaning individuals and organizations from high-income countries often donate medical equipment – mostly used – to hospitals in low-resource settings. But it often fails because it isn’t designed for the "predictable unpredictability" of these settings. Mike Miesen argues that we need innovative devices designed for the needs of the customer, not the donor.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- product design
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The Power of Investing in Women: Lessons learned from WIN-WIN
Calvert Foundation and Citi Foundation launched the Women Investing in Women Initiative, or WIN-WIN, on March 8, 2012, International Women’s Day. The initiative aimed to raise and deploy $20 million in capital to empower women and girls around the world. WIN-WIN surpassed this goal in December, and Calvert CEO Jennifer Pryce discusses four lessons learned along the way.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Dasra Philanthropy Week 2014: Urgency in gender equality
Dasra hosted its fifth annual Philanthropy Week from March 5-7. It convened more than 600 prominent philanthropists, corporations and impact investors to catalyze funding to India’s social sector. And as Nilima Achwal explains, Dasra has made a notable strategic shift to focus on adolescent girl empowerment.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Moving India Toward Universal Financial Inclusion: Part 2 of our Q&A with Nachiket Mor
The Nachiket Mor committee report on financial inclusion in India has sparked excitement and debate domestically and around the world. In part two of our Q&A with Mor, we discuss India’s move toward a cashless economy, the need for responsive regulations, and how the committee’s recommendations could impact India’s economy and low-income communities.
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- Uncategorized
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Girl Power: SHOFCO’s tuition-free schools in Kenya linking communities to health services
Shining Hope for Communities, which is creating girls’ schools in Kenyan slums and linking community services to them, has been recognized for making health care more accessible.
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- Education, Health Care
