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From Operating Rooms to Dust Tracks, Part 2: How Operation ASHA moved beyond rhetoric to action
After serving Delhi’s slum dwellers for more than a decade with free surgeries, Dr. Shelly Batra realized her work wasn’t sustainable. That’s when she and Sandeep Ahuja decided to start an organization focused on only one health problem in India: TB.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Tasting the Fruits of One’s Labor (For the First Time): Highlights from ‘Lets Talk Coffee Rwanda’
Let’s Talk Coffee is an event series organized by coffee importer Sustainable Harvest to demonstrate Relationship Coffee - an inclusive business model that stresses transparency between all links of the supply chain. Last week’s Let’s Talk Coffee Rwanda coincided with the launch of Sustainable Harvest’s nonprofit entity, the Relationship Coffee Institute.
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- Agriculture
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No Silver Bullet: While microfinance alone won’t end poverty, it is making an impact – so let’s re-focus it to serve the poor
The debate about microfinance is getting a little tedious, says Freedom from Hunger CEO Steve Hollingworth. Instead of arguing over whether microfinance alone is lifting most clients out of poverty (it’s not), we should be having a transparent discussion of its strengths and limitations.
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- Impact Assessment
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From Operating Rooms to Dust Tracks, Part 1: How a doctor found the ‘invisible poor,’ then founded an organization to help them
Dr. Shelly Batra had it all, including a job at a plush corporate hospital with the best equipment. But when she gathered her courage one day and entered a New Delhi slum, her life changed forever. She ended up returning to the slum time after time to treat the sick, and eventually that led to her "dream job" at Operation ASHA.
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- Education, Health Care
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How to Avoid Three Common Pitfalls of Social Enterprise
he social enterprise revolution of the last decade has been a success. Businesses have adopted the skills of entrepreneurship and found innovative, efficient, and effective solutions to social problems.
But many businesses face challenges trying to balance for-profit endeavors with social objectives, and end up trapped by these familiar pitfalls.- Categories
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Raining Miracles: Bangladesh’s remarkable health progress
Health care has improved dramatically in Bangladesh in only a generation. The reasons are varied, but one key has been the large-scale distribution of community health workers.
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Charting the Growth of Mobile Finance: GSMA report highlights key findings, best practices in a vibrant sector
Mobile finance represents a tremendous opportunity for social impact, and an important commercial opportunity. GSMA has been collecting and analyzing mobile money data since 2010, and today it released its annual State of the Industry report, with key findings and insights on the growth of this vital sector.
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- Education
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NexThought Monday – 2/24/14: How to grow a conference by 2500% and build a community
Why would social change organizations devote a huge amount of their valuable (and very scarce) staff, time, and resources to convenings that will only last a matter of days? What impact does a single event actually create, and how do you know you’ve created it? As a conference director at Ashoka U (the university division of the global social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka), seeing this upsurge in events has caused me to pause and reflect: What makes a great event?
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