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The Best of 2012: The Dangerous Promise of Impact Investing
In part two of my conversation with Felix Oldenburg, Ashoka’s Europe and Germany director, takes on -and takes apart- impact investing. In the days leading up to SOCAP Europe, Oldenburg offers a radical critique of the current hype surrounding impact investing. We must fund the impact - not the organization, he explains.
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- Impact Assessment
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The Smallholder Farmer is the Base of the Pyramid
Agriculture presents the greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs in the developing world. When we talk about the base of the pyramid, much of the time we are actually talking about farmers. This post is dedicated to shedding light on the idea that poverty alleviation can be achieved with a stronger focus on integrated agribusiness development.
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Opening a New Energy Map, Featuring Top Trends from 42 Social Enterprises
On Tuesday, Ayllu and the Center for Science, Technology and Society in (CSTS) at Santa Clara University launched the Energy Map, an interactive tool for navigating market solutions to energy poverty. Although the map is focused on energy, it is relevant to any social enterprise operating in BoP markets.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- renewable energy, solar
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An Insider’s Look at the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition
Exploring the business case studies that impressed the judges in the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition. Each of the winning case studies challenges students, educators, and practitioners to think through and tackle the most relevant questions facing the social enterprise world today.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Healthpoint India Picks Up Sankalp Award, Investment
Healthpoint Services India Pvt. Ltd. had a busy Tuesday: Winning the Sankalp Award for Innovative Enterprises, and announcing the closure of a new investment to fuel its growth plans.
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- Health Care
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SOCAP/Europe Preview: Beyond the Revolution in MENA
It is less than one week until SOCAP/Europe. David Munir Nabti, well-versed social entrepreneur from Lebanon, helps to set up the sessions addressing social entrepreneurship and social capital in the MENA region. He tells us about his work, shares his insights and gives us a sneak peek about what to expect at the conference
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Less Hungry, More Human: A Marketing Perspective to Fighting Malnutrition
As the World Food Programme launches a glitzy new fundraising campaign called A Billion for A Billion, maybe it could learn from P&G’s 3D White Collection, which was the most successful non-foods new product launch in 2011, with over $151 million in sales. While the latter may not be particularly noble, marketers are clearly doing something right.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition, product design
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Reflections on Sankalp 2011: The Curious Case of Economic vs. Social Value
A lack of information infrastructure was a sentiment that reverberated across most many of the panel discussions at Sankalp 2011. Investors, entrepreneurs, corporate heads and government officials noted that to be truly inclusive to low-income household clients, social enterprises and corporate firms must strengthen bottom-up market intelligence.
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