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Charting the Future at Women’s World Banking
In the final post of a wide-ranging interview, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses expansion at the organization to include multi-product servcies to individuals and explains why consolidation in would benefit the microfinance sector in the long term.
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Friday Roundup ? 4/22/11: Adapting to Climate Change
In the next 30 years, 60% of global population growth will be concentrated in Asian cities. A new report by Intellecap, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network identifies key opportunities for building profitable enterprises that also help citizens adapt to the symptoms of global warming.
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On Earth Day: From Ecuador, Portrait of a Green Enterprise
Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of these indigenous people are finding a way to balance development and conservation, while building an ecologolically friendly business enterprise.
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Notes from the Vision Summit in Germany
"People who have a vision should go see a doctor." - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Around 1,000 of his fellow countrymen and several social visionaries from abroad duly ignored this recommendation, once formulated by the pragmatist leader as the German social entrepreneurship community gathered for the fourth Vision Summit.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Nigeria
The most significant presidential election this year in sub-Saharan Africa occurred this past weekend. Nigeria already has so many pieces of the puzzle: bountiful resources, auspicious geography, a famously entrepreneurial and optimistic population. But it will take an exceptionally shrewd and courageous leader to fit the pieces together.
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From Unite for Sight: Hearing the Pitch
From recycled MP3 players given new life as educational tools to creating health centers at truck stops, to employing women with HIV as craftspeople, one highlight highlight of year’s Unite For Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference was attending social enterprise pitches - ideas in the early implementation or brainstorming stages.
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Narratives Are Not Enough
Many of you have been tracking the aftermath of the 60 Minutes report about Greg Mortenson?s non-profit, Central Asian Institute (CAI), the allegations of mismanagement and misrepresentations in his book, Three Cups of Tea. It shows how critical it is to collect actual data on how organizations impact poverty. How can we increase transparency?
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New Lessons and Other Thoughts on the Presentation of the Last Book of SEKN
I recently attended a presentation in Buenos Aires on the book ’Inclusive Businesses: Market Initiatives with the Poor in Latin America.’ It’s the third book written via the collaborative efforts of academics and researchers in the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network. Among the book’s findings are six factors that shed light on inclusive business.
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