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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
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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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- impact investing
