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Social Enterprise All Around: A Look at Noteworthy Events Coming Up
August is around the corner and the summer is slowly starting to wind down. The social enterprise scene continues to burst with activity, however, and here’s a brief overview of what’s going on in the next couple of months.
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A Closer Look at the “Business in a Bag” Model
This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed by Ayllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. It analyzes the "business in a bag" model of microfranchise, used by several social enterprises to expand their operations.
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Stories from Sarvajal’s Turf: Cartels
Cartels engage in price fixing, which can become a hindrance to any business. It becomes a challenging task to then engage in marketing while ensuring the security of your stakeholders as well as expanding the business. In the Stories from Sarvajal series, Rishabh describes his experience working at Sarvajal, a for profit water enterprise.
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International Development’s Dirty Little Secret
There is a curious phenomenon in international development-one that has been a taboo subject for many years. It eludes the calculations of economists, confounds private sector growth, and interferes with the proper functioning of public services. And it helps explain the following facts:
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Calling All BoP Innovators: $100K Up For Grabs!
Its that time of the year again; until October 5th 2010, the Lemelson-MIT program is accepting nominations for their 2011 Award for Sustainability.
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Health Market Innovations: A Knowledge Base for BoP Markets
Operation ASHA is an example of a health market innovation, a program that is helping to improve the way health markets operate so that more of the transactions between consumers and private health care providers actually lead to better health and financial protection for the poor. CHMI has launched a new site to track health market innovations.
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Spotlight on Microfranchising: A Look Into the Future of Social Enterprise
In the previous posts we introduced the iuMAP and discussed the challenges of scaling. For the next few weeks we will focus on microfranchising because it is a model used increasingly by social enterprises as they scale.
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Grassroots Business Fund Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
The Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) recently celebrated its second anniversary in a congratulatory mood. It has committed has committed $8M in equity, quasi-equity, debt, grant financing and technical assistance in its 25 investments covering 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and reaching almost half a million direct beneficiaries.
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