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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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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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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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Beyond Payments – Experiences From Mobile Money Pilots
Since M-PESA cracked the market for payments in Kenya, mobile money is a global development dream: New technology enabling the poorest communities to join in modern commerce. As financial inclusion moves beyond credit, mobile banking should go beyond payments, suggests a report by PlaNet Finance and Oliver Wyman. A look at some key findings.
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Balancing a Three-Legged Stool – Collaborations to Achieve Social Impact
The theme of last month’s Skoll World Forum, "Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks, and collaborative action," mirrors the trend to move beyond the traditional philanthropic approach of scaling high-performing social entrepreneurs toward a focus on synergy within and across sectors.
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Unlocking Opportunity for SMEs Through Innovative Training
Have you ever found yourself dozing off in class or at a workshop? Most of us can relate to this and know the phrase ?death by PowerPoint.? So why continue to teach or train in this way? And entrepreneurs and farmers will struggle just as much, if not more, to learn via this method. Learn how one group is tackling this issue head-on.
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