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Guest Post: Competing in the Inaugural International Impact Investing Challenge
Ours was among 12 student teams from top business schools in the US/UK competing in the inaugural International Impact Investing Challenge. We were tasked with designing an investment vehicle capable of absorbing $10 million to $50 million with positive social or environmental impact while also delivering competitive returns for investors.
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From Unite for Sight: Big Development’s Raw Consequences in ’Good Fortune’
The conference opened with a screening of the award-winning documentary, "Good Fortune" a documentary presenting two stark cases of massive international aid and its consequences. The film follows two Kenyans whose lives collide with outsiders’ projects - one via the UN and another through modern-day farming practices of private industry.
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Join the Twitter Chat With Ashoka, NextBillion on Affordable Housing
NextBillion will be teaming up Ashoka from 3-5 p.m. EST on Wednesday, April 27 to talk about sustainable, affordable housing innovations for low-income consumers. We want to hear your ideas, questions and examples of successful collaborations between entrepreneurs, companies and the public sector in developing affordable housing solutions.
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With Info, LaborVoices Aims to Revolutionize Migrant Labor Markets
Global labor markets are complex and rife with power imbalances: dangerous working conditions, difficult hours, abusive employers, human trafficking and even slavery. How does one create a more humane and fair scenario? LaborVoices, a new startup social enterprise, aims to place power back into the hands of the worker, starting with information.
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ViewChange: Harnessing Commercial Markets to Fight Malaria
Today is World Malaria Day 2011. NextBillion video partner ViewChange is highlighting several films today that shine a light on successful anti-malaria enterprises, including NetMark, a public-private partnership dedicated to reducing malaria by harnessing the power of commercial markets to distribute insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs).
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From Unite For Sight 2011: Community Level Approaches to Health
As a seasoned (as in, once-before) Global Health and Innovation Conference attendee, I knew I was in for a weekend of astonishment, passion and creativity - but also one of perplexity and frustration. As the speakers noted, past problems will continue to be future problems if enterprises do not address social impact - and vice versa.
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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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