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How Individual Investors Are Fueling Sustainable Farming Improvements in Colombia: Turning a $40B supply chain on its head
Myriad organizations are working to connect farmers to the money they need to make sustainable improvements.At Cima Coffee Farms, we’re working to deliver this capital in the form of real estate investment opportunities for individual investors looking to make a good return and an impact on the world. And we aim to do this by turning the $40 billion coffee industry supply chain on its head.
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- Agriculture
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- supply chains
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NexThought Monday: Three steps to finding and hiring great social enterprise talent
There is a growing interest in social enterprise careers the world over, yet the sector faces challenges in attracting the right talent. Given that it is a relatively young space, it needs to look outwards to fulfill its growing talent requirements. Based on my experiences in HR in this space during the last few years, here are three ways recruiters can do that.
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- Education
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Weekly Roundup – 11-9-13 – For Sale: Your Future: Should young people sell shares of their future earnings to investors?
Upstart is a crowdfunding company geared toward young people in the U.S. who are struggling with the cost of college education. It’s one of several new companies that allow investors to fund students’ careers, in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings. Is this a welcome innovation meeting a growing demand, or is it exploitation of the heavily indebted youth? We explore the topic in this Weekly Roundup.
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Social Enterprise in Haiti: An oxymoron or a reality?
More than two dozen development-minded thinkers and doers convened in Cambridge, Mass., for a competition-based workshop designed to find a market-based solution to cholera in Haiti. The winning idea, which includes recruiting and training “community chlorinators,” is expected to be up and running by this time next year.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Impact Sourcing: How combining work and study ends the cycle of poverty for good
When we launched Digital Divide Data as a social enterprise in Cambodia in 2001, we quickly realized that providing work opportunities to disadvantaged high school graduates was not enough. In time, we saw that our work-study participants were able to access new professional opportunities and earn higher incomes. Twelve years later, we hope this impact can be scaled up by our organization and others to include many more people and communities around the world.
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- Education, Technology
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Framing the BoP : Dalberg’s Gupta on avoiding negative definitions for BoP business
Gaurav Gupta, Dalberg’s regional director for Asia, says the broader base of the pyramid business space should avoid defining itself from a negative perspective, i.e. failures. Instead we should emphasize strides in reducing the BoP sector as a whole.
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Fundamental Funding: How basing funding on business fundamentals helps early-stage enterprises
In India, hundreds of entrepreneurs are setting up innovative social businesses. They are able to access equity funding for early stage enterprises, but once they are past the proof of concept and need working capital, they hit a funding snag. Simmi Sareen explains this critical gap in the financial ecosystem, and how funding based on business fundamentals can address it.
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- impact investing
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Technology Booms in Nigeria But E-health Lags: Private sector recommended to harness opportunities
More than 13 years after the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme, less than 3 percent of Nigerians have been covered, compared to 65 percent of the population in Ghana over a similar time frame. The reason? The public sector in Nigeria is failing to deliver.
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- Health Care
