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Sankalp 2011: Moving From Questions of ’How?’ To Examples of ’How To’
At India’s premiere forum for social businesses, I was encouraged to hear a familiar set of core challenges from both entrepreneurs and the investors. But, I also found myself feeling frustrated. We know which changes need to occur to spur continued growth in the sector, and yet we’ve still not figured out how to go about making them happen.
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An Emerging Platform: From Money Transfer System to Mobile Money Ecosystem
Mobile money is becoming an infrastructure backbone connecting clients with myriad financial service providers. Our investigation documented over 90 financial institutions - from small MFIs, and savings and credit cooperatives, to large banks and insurers - that are adding mobile money as a service delivery channel; and zero that were not.
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Tapping into the Talent Pool Within the BoP
Ashoka’s Changemakers, along with the Opportunity Project from eBay Foundation, is focused on employment and income generation for vulnerable populations via its open competition for systematic/disruptive market-based innovations. You have until June 15 to submit your ideas. Read on for more details on the competition and Tuesday’s Twitter chat.
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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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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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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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