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Unlikely Partnerships in the Social Sector
In the final part of my three-part interview with Ashoka’s Europe director Felix Oldenburg on how to create a large and sustained impact, he shared his thoughts on how to use existing, or some may call them "old" social structures -churches, welfare systems, and foundations, among others - to scale innovations.
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Mixing Oil and Water in SME Development
Like oil and water, many would argue major energy companies don’t mix with advancing social impact. However, in an industry better known for oil spills and fat profits, the Shell Foundation is shattering stereotypes by providing financing for energy and infrastructure organizations too small for commercial funding and too large for microfinance.
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Extreme Makeover: Social Enterprise Edition
Many nonprofit organizations are awakening to the idea that a for-profit model can often generate the same intended social impacts on a scale unimaginable while locked into a NPO state of mind. The road to financial sustainability is a rocky one; here are two stories of nonprofits that navigated that road to both profit and increased impact.
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- Social Enterprise
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Bangladesh’s Mobile Tech Surge, What It Means for Development
While mobile phones have increasingly become ubiquitous in developing countries, Bangladesh has taken the technology’s capabilities a step further. Many new initiatives have leveraged the sheer number of people using mobile phones: 76.4 million in Bangladesh. Neighboring countries have lagged behind in leveraging mobiles for development.
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Accelerating BoP Development at the Intersection of CSR & Impact Investing
Innovation in base of the pyramid development flourishes at the intersections. Through a new collaborative model, the BoP management strategy and innovation firm, I-DEV International, focuses on the intersection of multi-national corporate interests and impact investing to build lasting, profitable, and high-impact SMEs at the BoP.
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The BOP and Corruption
Focus on BOP has strong economic potential and the power to alter markets; can the same theory have similar impact on economics of corruption?How do you define the BOP of corruption? The bottom end of this pyramid is made up of the ordinary middle class Indians. If 45 percent have paid a bribe then it has to be the great Indian middle class.
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NexThought Monday: Coming 2011, An India Without Corruption?
India is in uproar: a broad citizen movement lead by charismatic Anna Hazare pushes for strong anti-corruption measures. As shop-keepers post support messages and business school students skip meals, the country wonders: Will the measures, called ?Lokpal," pass? And will the curb the addiction of the country?s civil servants to quick money?
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Friday Roundup – 8/19/11: (With Video) Young World Inventors, Give ?Em A Hand
YoungWorldInventors.com is heading up a project to share stories of inventors working across multiple cultures, countries and languages, but all of whom share the same goal: Deploying technology to tackle social problems. Their stories can’t be told by themselves. They need an audience that will pony up for the price of, say, two movie tickets.
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