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NexThought Monday: The Future of Crowdfunding Depends on Avoiding Past Missteps
For small and growing businesses that have the potential to create social and environmental change, financing is not easy to come by. Impact investing is on the rise, but the cost of doing risky deals in faraway lands remains prohibitive for investors, especially when deal sizes are small and returns remain minimal. As investors and thought leaders wrestle with these issues, a new potential solution has arisen: crowdfunding.
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- Technology
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- impact investing
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Weekly Roundup: ‘Is There One Perfect Web Platform for Social Entrepreneurs?’
This genuinely guileless question was posted on NextBillion’s LinkedIn group earlier this week.
I can only guess, but I’ll bet this person has been bombarded with options on which platform, database, or network he should use. It feels like every day a new platform developed by social entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs and/or by entrepreneurs, emerges. T- Categories
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FEATURED EVENT: Adapting Scalable Clean Technologies for Bottom of the Pyramid Markets: It’s one of many key discussions at Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference
Despite the massive increases in capacity and subsequent subsidy cuts driving solar module prices down they’re still not cheap enough for developing countries. But with innovative business solutions these new technologies can become economically viable in BoP markets.
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- Energy, Technology
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How a Mobile Airtime Vendor Became Zimbabwe’s Fastest-Growing Bank: EcoCash has reached a million subscribers in less than 6 months
Money is whizzing through the airwaves and cell towers of Zimbabwe, as a mobile cash transfer system is on track to become the country’s biggest bank. EcoCash, a mobile money transfer service operated by telecommunications company EcoNet Wireless Zimbabwe, has reached a million subscribers in under six months since its launch.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Financial Inclusion of Women: The Need for Systemic Approaches, Savings, and Tailored Financial Products
Financial institutions—in particular those in microfinance—need to reexamine the lessons of the past and begin prioritizing the creation of financial services that truly benefit poor women in order to address this divide, said Mary O’Keefe, founder of two leading Mexican microfinance institutions (FINCA and CAME) and ProDesarrollo, the association of microfinance and enterprise development.
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Peace Pays: Rebuilding Livelihoods in Northern Uganda
On Friday, the world will celebrate Peace Day, giving this work a special significance. Conflict and poverty are inextricably linked. On the other hand, economic growth reduces the risk of conflict. TechnoServe has seen this throughout our history, in countries such as Nicaragua and Mozambique. Giving people the opportunity to earn a living is one of the best ways to guarantee a lasting peace.
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- Agriculture
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Job Posting: WDI Looking for Health Care Project Associate
WDI’s Development Consulting Services (DCS) team has a new, full-time job opportunity for "Global Health Care Project Associate" to explore new international business/grant opportunities focusing on support for WDI’s Health Care Research Initiative.
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- Health Care
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The IRIS Registry: Bringing Metrics to Life for the Impact Sector
The IRIS registry is a platform created by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization, which since its founding in 2009 has been dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The Registry functions as a directory that provides transparency into the IRIS metrics regularly in use by various organizations; it also allows users to browse organization profiles by the sector focus, impact goals, and target regions of the listing organization.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
