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Phoning It In: An innovative way to make health care affordable for Kenya’s working poor
Changamka helps Kenyans save small amounts over time to purchase health insurance through a product called “Linda Jamii” (Swahili for “care for the family”). A mobile money micro-financing system makes it possible.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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NexThought Monday – 7 Trends Shaping Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: What do social entrepreneurs bring to the conversation?
Currently, 70 percent of Africans are under the age of 30. By 2040, 50 percent of the world’s youth will be African, most of whom will be women and girls. Social entrepreneurs teach great lessons when it comes to the grand challenge like youth unemployment in Africa. The biggest opportunities for all sectors and institutions are at the center of the problems and the insights within the community.
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- employment
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Weekly Roundup – SOCAP13 Takeaways: Plus, things we could take away (completely) from buzzwords
Regardless of whether “manufacturing,” “inventory,” or “design” follows it, “lean” is a buzz word that has zipped around the business lexicon for the better part of a decade. But a word to the wise: it does not apply well to every sector – including ours, i.e. the social sector.This and other takeaways from SOCAP13.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Why Backing College Loans To Low-Income Students In Mexico Is A Game Changer
Mexico has a smaller proportion of college students than other countries on a similar path of growth and progress. At FINAE, our first great challenge was to create a model that achieved a balance between a profitable business and affordable interest rates for the students without any kind of governmental subsidy or support, as it happens in other countries.
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- Education
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Programa Vivenda: Housing, bonds and community
Programa Vivenda is taking a different approach to the market, and has managed to spot unexplored demand and positively impact many families in the process. The startup delivers better quality of life to the population through home renovations, kits and technical assistance aimed at improving comfort and covering the expenses of owning a house.
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- housing
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Gawad Kalinga : Building a social enterprise network in the Philippines
Gawad Kalinga, now a multi-million dollar Filipino NGO, was founded by Antonio Meloto (“Tito Tony” as he’s also known) to reduce poverty through a genuine network effect connecting businesses, communities, government and educators. Gawad Kalinga’s goal is ending poverty for 5 million families by 2024.
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- Social Enterprise
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Dump the Prizes?: Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
Last month, Kevin Starr’s provocative article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review spotlighted one of the oldest tools to source and support social innovations: prize competitions. As one of the early players in the field, the Changemakers team would like to add its two cents to the conversation.
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Impact Investment Lawyering: Educating a new kind of lawyer
In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan Law School launched an International Transactions Clinic (ITC), a first of its kind in legal education. During the last five years, the ITC has provided this unique, experiential learning opportunity to nearly 80 students who, in turn, have advised real social enterprise conducting more than 100 transactions around the globe.
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- Education
