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Advancing the Dialogue on Microfinance: New Center for Financial Inclusion Launched by ACCION
ACCION International has been instrumental in the rise and mainstreaming of microfinance as a key component of bottom-up approaches to poverty alleviation. It has played a key role in promoting thriving organizations that are bringing financial services to the poor. Under the leadership of...
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When Being Disruptive is a Good Thing ? (Part 2)
Editor’s note: The posts in the "When Being Disruptive is a Good Thing" series were originally published as Guest Posts by Mark Beckford, before he joined NextBillion.net’s team as Staff Writer.In general, the penetration of tech products into emerging markets has not made a...
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Job: Program Officer, Skoll Foundation
Position: Program Officer Location: San Francisco, California Organization: The Skoll Foundation was established in 1999 by eBay’s first president, Jeff Skoll, who serves as our founder and chairman. The foundation’s innovative approach to philanthropy is based on the belief that...
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Guest Post: Promoting Fair Trade and Social Enterprise in China – an Interview with Beijing Fair Fie
Guest blogger Muhan Cheng graduated from National?Taiwan University?with?a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and received her Masters Degree?in Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment, at Duke University, in 2008. She?currently?works as an?intern with the...
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Pop!Tech Fellows Focus on Development Through Enterprise
Andrew Zolli is at it again.? On Tuesday, Zolli’s Pop!Tech announced its inaugural class of Social Innovation Fellows.? Biased as I am towards all things “base of the pyramid", I immediately browsed through the list of Fellows with my BoP filter on.? By my count, 7 of the 16...
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The Missing Middle
Every few weeks, members of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) converge in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about microfinance, microcredit, and related finance and economic topics. The last session, Fueling the Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES), was led and hosted by...
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When Being “Disruptive” is a Good Thing (Part 1)
Editor’s note: The posts in the "When Being Disruptive is a Good Thing" series were originally published as Guest Posts by Mark Beckford, before he joined NextBillion.net’s team as Staff Writer.Someone or something that is disruptive is usually associated in the negative....
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Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Christopher Benz, from CraftNetwork
CraftNetwork is opening the doors of fair trade and global markets to artisans around the globe. Christopher Benz, its founder and managing director, was part of this year’s Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University.?This project is,?in many ways, unique among similar...
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