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NextThought Monday: Three Assumptions You Should Avoid When Working with the BoP
My goal in Villa El Salvador — an urban, residential district on the outskirts of a desert area in Lima —was to supervise a focus group with inhabitants of this neighborhood that will be part of a broader study that IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority is developing as part of its 2014 knowledge production strategy. Many of participants in the focus group surprised me with some of their answers, as they went against many of my rooted preconceptions.
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- Finance, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Honoring Greg Dees
Real innovators disassemble, tinker, and then reassemble the known parts of a thing - any thing - to create something new and lasting. That’s what J. Gregory Dees did in defining social entrepreneurship 16 years ago in his paper “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.” Dees passed away last month, leaving a legacy for the academic study of social entrepreneurship.
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- Education
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Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community development
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care
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Impact investing: Making the case for low-margin, high social return investments
Capital from impact investing often acts as a catalyst to commercial capital. For instance, it helps to showcase the viability of new business models and products, and it drives existing enterprises toward improved services and new geographies. But organizations that don’t generate commercially attractive returns often can’t attract mainstream capital. Geeta Goel argues that in these cases, impact capital focused on social impact has a vital role.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Rethinking Impact and Redefining Success: Highlights from Unite for Sight’s Social Entrepreneurship Institute
Unite For Sight recently hosted its inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Institute, a day-long event dedicated to social entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors, including health care. Speakers focused on several key best practices in social entrepreneurship, from beginning an organization to measuring impact and eventually scaling up.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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The Power of Interoperability: An interview with Zahir Khoja, CEO of MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions
Lack of interoperability is widely seen as a key barrier to mobile money’s global uptake. But MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions thinks it has found an answer. In this interview with Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman (part 3 of our Mobile Money Movers series), CEO Zahir Khoja discusses the challenges of working with telcos, banks and merchants, and the ways that an interoperable payment tool can impact people’s daily lives at the BoP.
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- Finance
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A Year Your Grandmother Could Love: Crystal ball says in 2014, it’s back to basics like “Wash those hands!”
There will be no small amount of technological innovation in 2014, according to our prognostication, but there will also be a renewed focus on tried-and-true, small steps that could have a huge impact on global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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A New Way to ‘Experience’ Favelas: A social enterprise bringing tourists and favela residents under one roof
Favela Experience offers authentic room and apartment rentals to travelers in Rio’s safe and vibrant favela communities. The social venture aims to generate sustainable income for favela host families while breaking negative stereotypes about favelas.
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