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From Chile, Building Social Entrepreneurship in a ’Space of Spaces’
The second Social Entrepreneurship Month 2011 (MES2011): "Social Innovation + Education" launched in Chile last month, and continues through this week. MES Co-Founder Gianncarlo Dur?n told NextBillion in Spanish that social entrepreneurship concepts "are coming to Chile but with "great intensity."
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NextThought Monday: The FOUND Middle, Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria
In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we share with you the next video in our continuing series, which features Nneka Okekearu, Centre Manager for the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) at the Pan African University in Nigeria. EDC focuses on the business development and provision of support services to small and growing businesses in Nigeria.
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Weekly Roundup – 11-13-11: Technology’s Equalizing Impact
The need for inclusive health programs has been an active part of the development conversation for years. Daniella Ballou-Aares, the founder of the Global Health Practice group at the strategic consulting firm Dalberg points out, the means to do so on a large-scale has been elusive. However, technology has become the great equalizer.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Farming to Invest in the Future
Recently, we surveyed more than 150 farmers in our cotton program to better understand the impact that TechnoServe’s work has on their lives and livelihoods. I wanted numbers - and I got them - but what stuck with me were not the facts and figures, but the deeply personal stories that those facts and figures told.
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- Agriculture
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The Missing Middle; and the Growth of Social Enterprises
But behind all the feel-good energy and promises that impact investing will be a $50 billion industry by 2020, there are gaps in the story line and challenges that we must confront as a community. Rather than seeing ROI financiers, social impact advocates and foundations as adversaries, there is an opportunity to see them as allies.
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Housing Series: Establishing Quality Standards for Affordable Housing
Who enforces building standards? If customers are sold a home with sub-standard construction or materials - or their neighbor builds a dangerously unstable structure - what recourse do BoP citizens have? The certification prices we are developing is not a one-time "stamp of approval." Rather, it starts with pre-building and lasts over time.
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- Investing
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CSR Fail: Why It’s Time for a BoP Tech Revolution
It’s up to all of us to change the tide and think about the intersection of technology inclusion and education more critically. It’s time for corporations to stop giving away their scrap computers to the developing world and calling it CSR. It’s time for NGOs to be more judicious about the hand-outs they accept and the indirect costs endured.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Lessons Learned, Using Livelihoods to Combat Extreme Urban Poverty
Partners in Prosperity is the non-profit affiliate of Mimo Finance, a microfinance institution. The pilot project in Dehradun, India focused on livelihoods; training such as candle-making, small shops, and snack stands. PnP’s training and "starter kits" gave participants the jumpstart they needed without relying on government programs.
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