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Weekly Roundup – 11/27/10
In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of what was published on NextBillion this short week.
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Giving Thanks for Two New NB Staffers
On the eve of Thanksgiving, I’d like to express personal and professional thanks to two NextBillion contributors: Kevin Keepper and Oscar Abello.I’m happy to announce Kevin has agreed to sign on as a NextBillion Editor and Oscar has come on board as a Staff Writer.
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3 Reasons Why “Unreasonable is the New Reasonable”
Teju Ravilochan, one of the unreasonable co-founders, was kind enough to answer three questions that will hopefully convince you to put your hat in the ring and apply to be part of this incredible platform.
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Inspire Business Students to Use Their Skills for Good
Do you want to connect with social enterprises and academics across the world? Get published? Inspire hundreds, even thousands of MBA students to join the social enterprise movement? How about win $1000?
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Designing for the BOP: 9 Tips for Success, Pitfalls to Avoid When Evaluating a Project
Success isn?t about completing a defined scope or work, it may not even be about sales or revenue. It?s about impact. After five years I?m just starting to figure out what that means. Tim Prestero, the Executive Director of Design That Matters, has it drilled down to a science. We compared notes recently and distilled our thoughts.
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Break No Promises
With $500 million and marching orders from the Gates Foundation, banks, microfinance institutions, mobile phone operators, regulators, retailers, and telecom companies, will now venture into a world filled with informal financial mechanisms, often deeply embedded in culture and history. Will these informal mechanisms be brought along or trampled?
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Shining a (Solar) Light on Patient Capital
The IFC/World Bank’s Lighting Africa Program report, Solar Lighting for the Base of the Pyramid, found Africa will be the world’s largest market for solar portable lights by 2015. But it will remain only potential without patient capital. Acumen CEO Jaqueline Novogratz says acceptance of patient capital is moving far faster than microfinance did.
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Friday Roundup – 11/19/10: Is Patient Capital Changing Development?
It’s been a fun and productive week. I had the pleasure to visit Ann Arbor and the impressive grounds of the Ross School of Business, where our colleagues at the William Davidson Institute hosted a one day workshop to discuss the future of NextBillion as a project.
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