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Moving NextBillion.net’s Servers
Around 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time today, NextBillion.net will be moving to a new server. During the changeover, comments will be disabled throughout the site. Blog posts, news stories, events, resources and other existing materials will be accessible - you just won’t be able to chime in...
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Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet Tendai Mawunga from Pump Aid, Zimbabwe and Malawi
Tendai used to be a teacher in his native Zimbabwe, until he saw one of his students died for reasons related to poor water quality. That event changed his life’s direction and led him to become one of the founding members of Pump Aid, an NGO that has brought safe drinking water to thousands...
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Drishtee: Rural Health Franchising
One in eight people on the planet lives in an Indian village. That’s 775 million people, about half of whom live on less than $1 per day.To Drishtee and its founder, Satyan Mishra, these numbers aren’t daunting; rather, they represent an incredible opportunity. Drishtee is franchisor...
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Introducing Social Entrepreneurs from GSBI 2008: Meet David Okello, from Coast Coconut Farms in Keny
The last 10 days have been truly exciting ones. I have had the amazing opportunity to participate in this year’s Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University, a two-week in-residence mentoring program with social entrepreneurs from around the world. Over the next few days...
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A Hothouse of Creativity: From GSBI 2008
It’s pretty intense, the process Francisco and I are engaged in this past week and the coming one. Take 16 social entrepreneurs from a dozen countries on three continents, some very knowledgeable faculty, and more than a high-powered dozen mentors and guest lecturers from Silicon Valley...
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Cornell Announces Base of the Pyramid Essay Competition
The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management is accepting submissions for its 2008 Base of the Pyramid (BoP) Narrative Competition. This short-essay competition seeks to highlight the challenges of implementing business in...
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Social Capital Markets Conference – Early Registration ends 8.25
I first learned of the Social Capital Markets conference from organizer Kevin Jones, a friend whom I’ve often run into at various conferences through the years. Last year, Kevin - a principal at Good Capital - began to think that it was time to break down silos and get various ’social...
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Sustainability for ICT Offerings
A recent report, “Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use,” by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation highlights emerging trends by NGOs in the use of mobile technology to affect social change in global public health, humanitarian...
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