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Q&A: Developing Entrepreneurship in Tibetan Settlements in India
Sambuddha Bhattacharya joined TechnoServe India as a Volunteer Consultant in April 2012. He has advised several leading Indian companies at KPMG Advisory and served as Strategy Consultant at India’s largest law firm, Amarchand Mangaldas. An entrepreneur himself, Sambuddha recently co-founded skillhippo.com, an online skills marketplace.
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Ashoka Changemakers #socintchat Twitter Chat to Discuss Social ‘Intrapreneurship’
Ashoka Changemakers is hosting a Twitter chat Thursday (Jan. 10) at 3PM IST on ‘Social Intrapreneurship’ .
Social intrapreneurs are becoming instigators in the race towards a new kind of economy. These changemakers are developing innovative and scalable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems ranging from health to education to environment.- Categories
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From Darth Vader to Social Innovator: SalaUno’s formula for success
With influences ranging from Aravind Eye Care to low-cost airlines, SalaUno has established itself as one of the most innovative social enterprises in Latin America. Specializing in low-cost cataract surgery and other vision care, it achieved profitability within two months of opening, and its founders have been hailed as some of the region’s top entrepreneurs. In this interview, SalaUno co-founder Javier Okhuysen explains how they did it.
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Micro Co-Ops for Macro Markets: Land O’Lakes finds success with dairy farmers in Malawi
The five-year program by Land O’Lakes, supported by a grant from USAID, set up or expanded 23 milk bulking groups across the country. The result? Farmers’ incomes were boosted, and they got access to productivity-enhancing inputs, insurance coverage, technical training and community prestige.
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Impact Investors Ready to Open the Spigot : J.P. Morgan, GIIN study projects $9 Billion Committed for Impact Investing 2013
J.P. Morgan and the GIIN today released Perspectives on Progress, which takes the collective temperature of the impact investing community – and the mercury is rising. The 99 investors who replied said they plan to commit a total of USD $9 billion toward impact investments in 2013. That’s $1 billion more than these organizations said they invested in 2012.
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Weekly Roundup – Lucky 2013? : The new year brings hope for seed funds
For the impact investing community, it sure looks like 2013 has started with a bang. But 2012 certainly didn’t end with a whimper either. The bang was heard on Thursday with an announcement from Unitus Seed Fund (USF), which raised investments of more than $8 million for early stage BoP startups.
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A Record-Breaking Year for Mobilizing Private Capital for Development
USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) worked with 45 financial institutions in 23 countries in 2012 to unlock up to $525 million in private capital for underserved entrepreneurs in developing countries. The financing, made available through 34 partial credit guarantees, is the most USAID has mobilized in a single year.
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Unique Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurs with Scalable Ideas: GSBI seeking health and off-grid energy applicants for 2013
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) run by Santa Clara University celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. Of the 160 alumni, more than 50 percent are still scaling—a track record any venture capitalist would envy—and these social enterprises have provided services to more than 70 million beneficiaries. The deadline for this year’s GSBI is coming up fast: applications must be filed online by Jan. 11.
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