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The Best of Both Worlds? Blending For-Profit and Non-Profit Models
Incorporating for-profit activities into the structure of social good organizations can have amazing consequences. It can, for instance, free these organizations from the maddeningly inconsistent funding cycle of the non-profit world. However Perennial questions remain. Can organizations do good and be profitable at the same time?
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- Social Enterprise
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The BoP In Pictures: One Entrepreneur’s Story
Angelina Mwenzi is one of a few locals of Silanga Village, which is in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, empowered by Peepoople AB, a Swedish social enterprise that launched a pilot project in Silanga in October. She?s built her own small business out of The Peepoo, a personal, single use toilet that turns human waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Making a World of Difference this Mother?s Day
We know that extremely cost-effective investments allow more children and mothers to survive and thrive - from birth to early childhood education. This year, Save the Children partnered with Link TV’s ViewChange.org to create a documentary that takes a global tour of motherhood, while highlighting some of the remarkable approaches to change.
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Friday Roundup ? 5/6/11: How ’Flexible’ Should Profit/Nonprofits Be?
Two bills that have been introduced in the California Legislature that would carve out two new business/nonprofit hybrid designations.One would create so-called "flexible-purpose corporations," while the other would designate B corps. But for nonprofits and charitable foundations, the change is disquieting.
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’The Price is Wrong’ (For Some Things) at the BoP
The Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s latest bulletin, "The Price Is Wrong," suggests charging small fees to balance access can dramatically reduce uptake, while raising little revenue. While this seems to contradict the entire development through enterprise agenda, a closer look suggests this view isn’t far from what we already know about BoP markets.
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Pipeline Fund Fellowship: Inspiring Colombian Women to Invest
Investing in women is "smart economics," according to a 2006 World Bank report and Natalia Oberti Noguera is doing just that. Through her new for-profit venture, The Pipeline Fund Fellowship, she’s diversifying the investor pool by training women philanthropists to become angel investors to help create capital for women entrepreneurs.
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- Education
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New NB Roles for Lall and Kendall, the Best of April ’Deviants’ and All
We recently announced several changes to the NextBillion team. In fact, with Francisco Noguera moving to the role of staff writer and a host of new scribes joining, there was too much news for one post. I’d like to take a few graphs to make a few more editorial announcements. Plus - the top-read NB posts for April. Was there wisdom in the crowds?
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- Education
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Not Just Good or Bad … But Making It Better: Ideas to Impact
The conversation around BoP ventures should not be about whether to launch them, but how to build better ones, WDI Research Fellow Ted London told attendees at UC Berkeley’s Ideas Impact (I2I) - a collaborative event with the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) last month. He provided three stages to drive BoP venture development.
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- Impact Assessment
