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Social,Inclusive Businesses in Brazil, A Progress Report
What is the state of the social/inclusive business field in Brazil? A recent mapping by Plano CDE, and coordinated by AVINA Potencia Ventures and The ANDE Brasil Chapter identified 140 social/inclusive businesses throughout the country and surprising data about the characteristics, progress, and challenges that these businesses still face.
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SOCAP11 Preview: Legal Catch-Up With Social Innovation
Law is typically condemned to play catch-up with social innovation. Ask Jenny Kassan, the managing director of Katovich Law Group and founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a non-profit organization that helps social entrepreneurs and mission-oriented community groups wade through laws that were not originally designed with them in mind.
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5 Things Global Development Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedy
Early in his stand-up comedy career, Steve Martin started jotting down notes after each of his performances, evaluating what worked, what to tweak and what to toss. Fast Company’s Co.Design blog posted titled ’8 things stand-up comedy teaches us about innovation.’ In the same spirit, here’s 5 things stand-up can teach us about global development.
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How to Reach Out to Rural India? Practitioners and Academics In Dialogue
There is no shortage of ideas, and some would even say no shortage of products, that would help the rural poor to improve their social and economic situation. But distribution remains a key challenge. At the oikos swiss Practitioner Day 2011, young scholars, local experts and practitioners from several companies discussed how to tackle the issue.
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Improving Mother, Newborn Care is Aim of Jacaranda Health
Jacaranda Health is a maternal healthcare provider in Nairobi offering low income women high quality and affordable care. Founded by Nick Pearson, formerly of Acumen Fund, Jacaranda charges modest fees for services, like $1.25 per consultation and $8 for complete prenatal lab tests, with an aim to recoup costs and expand into a chain of clinics.
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SOCAP11 Preview: How to Design Empathy and Other IDEO.org Projects
Jocelyn Wyatt, the long-time leader of social innovation at IDEO, recently became the co-lead and executive director of IDEO.org, the firm’s newly-launched non-profit started to address poverty-related challenges through design. She will be hosting Design Lab Office Hours at this year’s SOCAP and shares some experiences from IDEO.org’s early days.
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NextThought Monday Gearing Up for SOCAP11: Milaap’s Service-Focused Journey
Anoj Viswanathan is co-founder of Milaap, a pioneering online platform that enables people across the world to lend to India’s working poor. He drew inspiration from Lilla Watson?s quote, ?if you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
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Friday Roundup ? 8/26/11: Profits Without Social Compromises
Much literal and virtual ink has been spilled this week on the blurring of lines between what constitutes nonprofit and for-profit in the social space. Of course many for-profits are, not by choice, shoehorned into nonprofit status. While nonprofits, witnessing the success and efficiency of profit seeking social ventures, have changed course.
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