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Job: African Enterprise Development Specialists, CARANA Corporation
Position: Enterprise Development Specialists Location: Africa (various countries) Organization: CARANA Corporation, a contractor for USAID, designs and directs innovative economic growth strategies to help countries and businesses compete globally, reducing poverty and raising living...
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Guest Post: Cornell Students Working with Natural Food Products Business in Botswana
We received the following story via e-mail from guest blogger Gretchen Ruethling, a first year Master of Public Administration student focusing on international development at Cornell University. She has worked as a journalist and for an environmental organization and an agricultural research...
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Job: Communications and Development Associate, Endeavor
Position: Communications and Development AssociateLocation: New York, with potential for extensive travelOrganization: Founded in 1997, Endeavor works with High-Impact Entrepreneurs in Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa, and India. High-Impact Entrepreneurs are operating...
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Global Social Benefit Incubator Accepting 2009 Applications
Santa Clara University is known in social entrepreneurial circles for its work helping to organize and judge the Tech Museum Awards ? a showcase for social entrepreneurs, mostly from developing countries. Less well-known about the school is the Global Social Benefit Incubator, run by...
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Google.org Places SME Initiative “On the Back Burner”
Here at NextBillion.net, we believe in the power of small and medium sized enterprises to spur economic development at the bottom of the pyramid.? This idea - one of the core principles of the "development through enterprise" movement that’s gaining steam in business and...
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Job: Grameen Technology Center, Ghana Project Manager
Position: Project ManagerLocation: Ghana ?? AccraTime frame: Full Time, Starting January 25, 2009 Organization: Grameen Technology Center.? The Grameen Technology Center, an initiative of the Grameen Foundation, focuses on technology that makes microfinance operations more efficient,...
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Job: Development Officer at E+Co
Position: Development OfficerLocation: Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA; international travel to Africa, Asia and Latin America.Organization: E+Co,?a?non-profit investment firm focusing on clean energy enterprises in developing countries, is seeking a qualified graduate level (Masters) student...
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Sustainable Cooking Stoves
Energy poverty in the developing world is a complex and ongoing problem with serious impacts on health, economic growth, and the overall environment.? The impact on the poor is particularly felt in their day to day needs for cooking fuel ? much of it coming from either oil or gas - or from...
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