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Expanding the Scope of Health Care: A roundtable discussion on nutrition’s impact on health, featuring World Food Program Senior Nutrition Advisor Martin Bloem
About two billion people suffer from malnutrition in both developed and developing countries, with another two billion suffering from hidden hunger. We need new approaches to this crisis, as awareness grows of the impact of nutrition on health. Martin Bloem, Senior Nutrition Advisor with the World Food Programme, discussed these issues with Ashoka Changemakers and other nutrition experts.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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The New Alchemists of Credit
In the days before the Internet – how could we live without it? – the opinions of neighbors, teachers, store owners, or the friends and enemies of a person from the community was sufficient to determine the character of a person. Now that we’re living in a hyper-connected world, then why not give the same function to social networks?
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- Technology
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How We May Change the Charitable Industrial Complex
I, like many others, read Peter Buffet’s article on charity in the New York Times last month. I loved the piece but it left me wanting for more. If the “Charitable-Industrial Complex” is the old story, then what is the new one and, how do we build it?
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- philanthropy
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NexThought Monday – Time Out: Three Reasons why too many Philadelphia Eagles fans are bad for global development
Recognizing the chance to turn first-world waste into third-world benefit, World Vision and the NFL joined forces to distribute the misprinted clothing to communities throughout the developing world.
Now you might think this is all fine and dandy – a match made in heaven perhaps. Not so fast.- Categories
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Weekly Roundup – 8/10/13: Kicking up working capital
Citi Commercial Bank did something it’s never done before: Make a loan to a social enterprise.
The $2 million loan isn’t a corporate social responsibly vehicle, nor is it a grant. This is a business deal, and one of noteworthy size. The recipient, KickStart International makes and sells human-powered pumps for rural farmers.- Categories
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Productive Consumption: How high-end technology enables market-driven service delivery for the BoP
Historically, expansion of basic service access has been hindered by the costs and slow speed of expanding “the grid.” Yet there is no longer any need to move at the pace of grid expansion; technology to offer basic services safely and affordably, without relying on grid electricity, is here today. Interestingly, this opportunity to reach the poorest has been created by the insatiable demand in richer countries for what is in our pockets, handbags and briefcases.
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- Energy
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Indian Farmers Hate Tomatoes: Why this social enterprise is helping them connect to larger customers
Because of high variability in prices and a lack of storage, Indian farmers sometimes prefer to trash the tomatoes than sell at low prices. Social enterprise Krishi Star is partnering with farmers to develop farmer-owned processing units, connecting them with the wider market.
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- Agriculture
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Generic Manufacturers for Reproductive Health: Closing the gap to reaching 120 million more women
One year ago, there was a surge of momentum around reproductive health, as the London Summit on Family Planning focused NGOs, governments, foundations and the private sector on providing 120 million more women in developing countries with access to family planning tools by 2020. Now a group of generic manufacturers of reproductive health supplies are acting to turn these commitments into concrete results.
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- Health Care
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- public health
