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NexThought Monday – Early Risks, Big Returns: What’s next for Impact Investing series – rethinking what’s ‘investible’
It’s hard enough to build a business that makes money in emerging markets without focusing on social impact. But that’s only part of the issue. Investable companies are out there, but too often we’re looking in the wrong places—or, we need to reconsider what’s “investable.”So far, Accion Venture Lab has found a rich pipeline of investable companies where others haven’t, thanks in part to our three-prong strategy: investing earlier, tolerating more uncertainty, and concentrating on big-picture priorities over returns.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Bi-Weekly Checkup (3/29/13): A conversation about everything
Has this ever happened to you? You’re talking about an important global problem – let’s say it’s poor nutrition – with a group of colleagues. You’re focusing on a specific issue – for example, the best way to promote healthy eating in BoP communities. But soon the conversation starts to expand - as soon as you address one problem, another one arises...
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- nutrition, public health
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Honey Care Africa’s Evolution : A video Q&A with CEO Madison Ayer on managing the challenges of beekeeping at scale
Honey Care Africa has worked with more than 15,000 farmers and helped to create 30,000 modern beehives across East Africa. It has been recognized as pioneer in the social enterprise, but CEO Madison Ayer said three years ago the company had to confront market realities to truly thrive.
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- Agriculture, Education
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EcoZoom on Building a Market for Clean Cookstoves: What it takes for consumers to invest for long-term savings
Global Envision interviewed Chief of Operations Phil Ferranto on the challenges EcoZoom faces in convincing people to invest in clean cookstoves, developing a market for cookstoves in developing economies, and what sets EcoZoom apart as a socially-minded for-profit business.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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At NCIIA’s Open Conference, a Shift Toward Responsible Startups: Student, faculty teams are increasingly addressing poverty
Since 1995 NCIIA has been supporting efforts of students and faculty to invent, innovate and create impact with breakthrough technologies Open Minds Conferences is one of the key conferences on technology entrepreneurship in higher education. More recently, NCIIA’s support of E-Teams has shifted significantly toward projects whose primary focus is on addressing poverty.
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- Education, Energy, Health Care
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- research
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The Quest for Integrated Health Care: The RHIN project’s model for rural health integration
Integration has become a global trend in health care reform, and for good reason. Many BoP and middle-income health systems struggle with problems like service delivery duplication, low continuity of care and patient dissatisfaction. Integration of services at every stage of health promotion could address these issues. In Namibia, Geneva Global’s Rural Health Integrated Network project seeks to create a strategy for health systems integration that could provide a model for global practice.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Nutrients: the connecting thread of global health
Is there a thread that connects the world’s gravest health issues, such as malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, maternal health and undernourishment during pregnancy, and malaria? You might be surprised to discover that something as simple as nutrients, which are also very complex, can be the connecting thread for all global health concerns.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
