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Net Impact In Review: The Growing Imperative of Cross-Sector Collaboration
Whether the intent was to better engage the BoP in healthcare, rebuild Haiti or create a sustainable social enterprise, one recurring theme at Net Impact 2010 was the need to increase mindful cross-sector collaborations, particularly within the field of development.
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Local Capacity Building and Business Development at the Base of the Pyramid
This is the third post in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview focuses on Mr. Winter and Technoserve’s views of local capacity building.
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Need Funding? Like Prizes? Innocentive May Be Your Answer
"But Rob, the impact investing community doesn’t do startups, doesn’t do angel. The traditional VCs won’t look at me because financial return expectations don’t match up; traditional philanthropists won’t because I’m a for-profit. Any ideas?"Welcome to my regular conversations with promising, early stage social entrepreneurs.
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Accessing Finance: Old Challenges, New Solutions
This is the second in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores impediments small and growing business face in accessing capital, the limits of microfinance and the strong potential for angel investing models and networks in emerging markets.
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Write Effectively: NextBillion Case Writing Competition Webinar
As part of the NextBillion Case Competition, we are offering an interactive webinar on How to Write Effective Business Cases. It will short, sweet, and full of useful pointers that will catapult you to the $1000 1st place cash prize. If not, it will make you a better writer and communicator anyway.
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Motivating MNCs to Engage BoP as Consumers and Producers
At the Net Impact Conference this past weekend, I was reminded that, by enlarge, multinational companies (MNCs) may have the interest in the BoP, but those with a deep understanding of their customers and how they live are still in very much in the minority. Dileepan Siva, Senior Manager for the Synergos Institute, offered some solutions.
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After ’07-’08 Crisis, A New Focus on Food Security, Sustainable Solutions
This is the first in a series of interviews with Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s Senior Vice President of Development. This interview explores the state of global food security initiatives, as well as identifying opportunities private firms can play in sustainable solutions for enhancing food quality and nutrition levels for BoP consumers.
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NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
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