-
Weekly Round-up 11-20-11: HealthPoint’s Push to Meet, Exceed Expectations
In a little more than two years, HealthPoint has created a network of medical clinics and clean water access points, providing 22,000 medical consultations, filling 28,000 prescriptions, and assisting more than 50,000 people a day with drinking water. This growth propelled the initial clinics to positive cash flow in the first quarter of 2011.
- Categories
- Agriculture, Health Care
-
Three Decades in the Making, How the Aravind Model Came into Focus
At the core of Aravind?s success is a strong culture of service, an attitude of daily work, not as a mechanical endeavor, but as work in service of self and community. This central ethic permeates the Aravind workforce and drives its mission. But how does a culture of service, where many patients are treated for free, add up to good business?
- Categories
- Health Care
-
Building an Egypt@Work, a Focus on Skills and Entrepreneurship
NGO Nahdet El Mahrousa and The International Youth Foundation (IYF), in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, recently launched Egypt@Work ? a program focusing on eliminating youth unemployment and promoting entrepreneurship in Egypt. Egypt@Work is collaborating with local NGOs, donors and the private sector to provide training and workshops.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
D-Rev’s Design Sense: Connecting World-Class Products With World Needs
Krista Donaldson, CEO of Design Revolution, says innovators need to be flexible. D-Rev visited hundreds of clinics and hostels when designing "Brilliance," which uses blue light to treat newborn jaundice that can lead disability or death. "We found that the need we originally identified was not actually the most practical place to start."
- Categories
- Health Care
- Tags
- product design
-
The Beauty of Bricks and Mortar: Low-cost Housing as a Foundation for Impact
At Acumen Fund, we feel it is high time for the dynamic to change - for the social enterprise sector to recognize the need to catalyze and support affordable housing across emerging markets. But we know there are forces working against us that cause housing to be treated like the forgotten stepchild of the social enterprise sector.
- Categories
- Investing
- Tags
- housing, impact investing
-
Where Free, Profitable, Impact and Scale Intersect: Insights From the Story of Aravind
Aravind Eye Care is a self-sustaining and profitable organization that treats most of its patients for free or at a deeply subsidized rate. A new book, "Infinite Vision," provides insights into the man who put Aravind into motion, and chronicles the strategic decisions, growing pains, innovations and efficiencies behind this BoP success story.
- Categories
- Health Care, Social Enterprise
-
Guest Post: Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund’s Competitions Focusing on Agribusiness, Climate Change
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund, which invests in businesses seeking commercially viable and high development impact projects in Africa, has launched three new competitions. Two will focus on agribusiness development in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Sudan, and renewable energy to help small farmers in East Africa to adapt to climate change.
- Categories
- Environment, Investing
- Tags
- venture capital
-
The 2012 ‘Doing Business’ Report: A Traveler’s Guide
Access to credit, reliable electricity, reasonable tax codes and other factors key to a business’s long-term success?for better or worse?often lies with a country?s government. The World Bank ranks these factors in its annual Doing Business Report. This year?s survey also provided intriguing insights for developing world entrepreneurs.
- Categories
- Education
