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Why Global Social Enterprise Needs to Become Its Own Asset Class
Ashoka Fellow David Green makes the case that in order for the global social enterprise sector to truly grow, it must become its own asset class. That means taking the form of a pro-profit social entity with the right type of governance to insure fidelity to a social mission, while being supported with the right kind of financing.
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Breaking New Ground: UM, Acumen Develop Social Entrepreneurship Course
In a new class (Acumen Fund @ UM: Leading Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship) offered this fall, the University of Michigan will be launching a curriculum co-developed with Acumen Fund on leading innovation through social entrepreneurship.
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’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises (Part 2)
The concept of an active social enterprise incubator is innovative, but has challenges. Markus Dietrich, one of the co-founders, emphasizes the importance of being adaptable and not imposing frameworks without taking into account the nuances of these markets. "At the BoP, if we do not co-create, we are not going to be successful," he said.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Benin Growing Pains for a Young Democracy
A day after the election in volatile Niger (where Seini Oumarou has emerged the winner) came the presidential election in one of the "star" democracies on the African continent. On March 13, the West African nation Benin went to the polls to continue a democracy born of dictatorship two decades ago. As the votes are counted, a look at the stakes.
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MBA Immersion in Rwanda, Building Sustainable Enterprises
It?s one thing to study a country such as Rwanda from afar; quite another thing to study it from the inside, as 22 MBA students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School did during a recent three-week project. Working from Kigali, students focused on medical supply, healthcare patient processing, energy and water/sanitation projects.
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’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises
The business model for the Asian Social Enterprise Incubator (ASEI), a Manila-based organization, is based on the assumption that what many social enterprises require is not necessarily access to office space and back-office services. Rather, they need a market-oriented management to direct the strategy and run the organization like a business.
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NexThought Monday: It?s a Small World by Design- Let?s Make it a Healthy One
The fulcrum of design, both of technology and program innovations, was an ongoing theme throughout our Advancing Healthcare With the Base of the Pyramid series. We wanted to re-publish these 14-post series in a way that was easily readable and sharable. So, we?re posting the series in a Scribd presentation.
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Friday Roundup ? 3/11/11: Uniting for Sight
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, presented by Unite For Sight, is a leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conferences. The conference provides a forum for 2,200 professionals and to create and collaborate on designs, strategies, and effective solutions to improve health and development globally.
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