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For Piramal Fellows, Innovation Comes Naturally
The Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is an opportunity for aspiring business and community leaders to engage where business and social impact meet. Fellows are placed in leadership roles with for-profit ventures designed for social and environmental change. As the organization recruits its next class, two fellows share their experiences.
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: Are We Measuring? Too Much?
’Impact assessment’ has become a mantra across much of the social entrepreneurship and impact investing scene. Are we measuring enough? The right thing? In the right way? Or, maybe... are we measuring too much?
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Friday Roundup ? 7/22/11: The Price to Pay to End Poverty
Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, this week has a fascinating column in Foreign Policy magazine that placed a price tag on ending ’absolute’ poverty: $100 billion. (That?s just $24 billion more than Apple?s current cash on hand, incidentally). How could it possibly be this low?
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View from Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerating Social Businesses
Cooperation with different stakeholders and support for the people behind the businesses. Those were the main recommendations of the ’Challenges and opportunities for accelerators and incubators’ panel held on June 29 by Fundaci?n AVINA, Ashoka and the Walmart Institute.
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The Citi Foundation’s ’More Than Philanthropy’ Approach Explained
Pamela P. Flaherty is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Citi Foundation, which is NextBillion’s first Sponsoring Partner. She also serves as director of Corporate Citizenship for the company. She spoke with NextBillion about the Foundation’s approach to fighting global poverty through enterprise initiatives.
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Introducing Citi Foundation, NextBillion?s Sponsoring Partner
I’m happy to announce the Citi Foundation as the inaugural sponsoring partner of the NextBillion Network. Like NextBillion, the Citi Foundation highlights innovations, leaders and initiatives to combat poverty through enterprise. This grant will be used to redesign NextBillion’s network of sites and vastly improve the reader experience.
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Emerson on Impact Investing: Passionately Pragmatic!
As creator of the blended-value concept, Jed Emerson has made significant contributions to the way impact investing is being discussed around the globe. In our conversation, Emerson shared his passionate yet pragmatic thinking about the status quo of impact investing, where he sees its risks and how to unleash billions of dollars in social capital.
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- Impact Assessment
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Beyond BASE: The Needs Are Here Now, So Are the Markets
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Opportunities for the Majority Initiative recently held its first international event on Business at the Base of the Pyramid. BoP "thought" history was made as business leaders from across Latin America mixed with NGOs, think tanks, consulting firms and other players. Here just a few themes that emerged.
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