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NexThought Monday: 8 HR Innovation Strategies to Sustain, Grow Social Enterprises
It’s common knowledge that social enterprises perennially struggle with retaining talent, especially in middle management. It thus becomes critical for social enterprises to think creatively and try a variety of innovative tactics. Our research has identified eight effective strategies of several social enterprises to attract and retain talent.
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- Education
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- academia
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Friday Roundup – 5/13/11: Persisting Challenges around Agricultural Finance
Wrapping up a week with several agriculture-related announcements, events and opportunities.
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New Techniques, Technology Helping Operation ASHA to Expand
Operation ASHA is a community-based program founded in the Delhi slums to fight the spread of antibiotic resistant TB strains by incentivizing counselors to closely monitor progress of patients and ensure they finish courses of DOTS. They have been growing at a dizzying pace with plans to expand to Cambodia, Morocco, Ghana, and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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ViewChange Video of the Week: Turning ’Chocolate Country’ into Co-Op Country
In the backcountry of the Dominican Republic, poor cacao farmers have been fighting a losing battle with the global economy for as long as anyone can remember. But the thriving Loma Guaconejo cooperative has found a way to turn the system on its head, sidestepping the middlemen and reaping increased profits for their goods.
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- Agriculture
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Laterite Aims to Build a Rock-Solid Business Layer in Rwanda
While Rwanda’s GDP has averaged 6.6% growth over the last four years, the business infrastructure to support new investment and government economic policy, is still trailing behind the surge. Launched in February by Sachin Gathani and Dimitri Stoelinga, social venture Laterite aims to address that need and spin off new businesses in the process.
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Indian Mobile Initiative Sweeps MIT?s Service Challenge
Thirteen other teams snagged implementation awards to partner with communities on innovative projects overcoming gaps in water/sanitation, agriculture and medical accessibility as part of this year?s MIT IDEAS Competition and the newly launched Global Challenge. This year 45 teams in all competed for $150,000 in awards to fight global challenges.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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After Mother’s Day, Lets Talk About The Human Leaky Faucet
Drip, drip drip. This isn’t a loose pipe ... it’s your body. Try as you might, you can’t stop the urine and feces from dripping down your legs. With your private parts torn apart, you now have a steady stream of human waste trickling out of you. You have a fistula. It’s time this cringe-worthy word becomes a part of the anti-poverty conversation.
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- Agriculture
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(With Video) Chronicling the ’Spark’ of Libera
Africa Interactive, is a social venture that works with a network of 2,000 local media professionals throughout Africa and produces content for a variety organizations across the continent. In the last year we produced a series of videos, called Spark Africa, dedicated to sustainable developments, innovative projects and entrepreneurship.
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- Education, Environment
