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Rebuilding Haiti: A Call to the Private Sector
The following article by Guest Writer Francisco Mej?a first appeard in MajorityMarkets.org. It’s part of a larger conversation that has started about the role of the private sector in Haiti’s reconstruction.
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Shea Yeleen: Promoting Market Access for African Shea Producers
I was reminded of the "theory of resonance" while talking to Rahama Wright, social entrepreneur and founder of Shea Yeleen International, a nonprofit working to help African women secure sustainable livelihoods via shea butter production.
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TechnoServe, Gates and Coke Link Up With Farmers
The Coca-Cola Company, nonprofit TechnoServe, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a partnership to enable over 50,000 small fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya to increase their productivity and double their incomes by 2014. This partnership will enable fruit farmers to participate in the Company’s supply chain for the first time.
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BoP Heavyweights Bishop, Edwards and Tooley Coming to NYC
If you are based in or around New York - or have plans to travel there in the coming months - you may be interested in two upcoming events that feature base of the pyramid subjects and experts.
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New Business Models for Sustainable Trading – Part 1
This post introduces a series focused on new business models for sustainable trading relationships. This series will discuss emerging enterprise solutions for small farmer inclusion, the corresponding impact on livelihoods of the rural poor, and the expanding market for sustainable business development for the public sector.
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Weekly Roundup: Stand with Haiti
Even for a blog that concerns itself with the everyday struggles of people in often desperate poverty, the situation in Port-au-Prince makes summarizing this week’s new research reports and events seem trivial. So: how to connect immediate humanitarian needs with the inclusive development Haiti has needed for so long?
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Gates Foundation Supports Savings Accounts for the Poor
The Gates Foundation is at it again. On Wednesday, it announced $38 million dollars in funding to support programming that will give the poor safe, effective ways to house their savings. Six grants will go to 18 MFIs that offer microcredit but will "make savings accounts available to an initial 11 million poor people over five years."
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WDI, the Next Case Writing Competition, and More
WDI has sponsored The Next: 2010 Case Writing Competition. I have already received a number of entries, from schools in New York to Toronto to New Delhi. We are thrilled at the response so far and can’t wait to read the final cases. And as a reminder, if you want to enter the competition, the intention to compete forms are due this Friday.
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