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A New Generation of Leaders: The Acumen Fund Fellowship
How would you like to spend one year working with a company focused on serving the poor in a developing country, either helping to set a strategy or improve operations? Then now is the time to apply for the Acumen Fund Fellowship.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Water, Water Everywhere: The Importance of Context, Partnerships
The fourth in the four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions concludes with some lessons on how social enterprises can influence consumer perception and increase their customer base in the heart of the BoP.
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- partnerships
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Water, Water Everywhere: How Clean Is It Really?
The third in a four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions examines water purity concerns in Rajasthan, which could be taken as a microcosm for larger water security issues. Researching customer preferences uncovered the dire tradeoff BoP customers must make: immediate health impacts versus basic access to water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Water, Water Everywhere: Much More Than Monsoons and Droughts Impact Water Choices, or Lack Thereof
The second in a four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions explores the disparate ways in which villages gather and store water in Rajasthan. While some villages have multiple options, in other areas potable water choices are limited. Often, the purity of a water source is the last priority for BoP consumers.
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Water, Water Everywhere, But How Do Companies Sell It?
The first in a four-part series analyzing community-scale water solutions. Researchers from Rural Market Insight (RMI) at the Centre for Development Finance (CDF) spent a month in Rajasthan discovering BoP consumer preferences for filtered water.
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Book Review: The Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder
Jody Heymann?s book, "The Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce," examines how to improve working conditions of employees while also increasing a company?s success.
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- employment
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NextThought Monday: Trading on the Social Entrepreneur Asset Class Idea
Creating an asset class for social entrepreneurship not only engenders an aura of solid ground for investors, both institutional and private, it could formally connect social entrepreneurs with a far wider scope of capital markets. Though not necessarily a new idea, it would seem many minds are acquiescing around the concept.
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- Social Enterprise
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Sustainable Employment: A Necessary Intervention for the Poor
The global rate for extreme poverty is projected to be 15% in 2015, down significantly from 42% in 1990. Still, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, is a call to explore all possible approaches to stabilize the volatile lives of the poor.
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- Environment
