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Job: Director, Foundation & Corporate Relations, Root Capital
Editor’s Note: NextBillion and Acumen Fund ally Willy Foote dropped us a note - via Brian Trelstad - and asked us to circulate this opening. If you’re interested in Root Capital, be sure to watch their excellent video, which features Willy himself on the guitar. Position: Director,...
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Join Us for a Panel and Reception to Meet Our New Ventures Country Directors
This will be a very special week for us at WRI as the New Ventures Global team will be in together in Washington. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we would like to invite you to a panel discussion on the landscape for sustainable enterprise growth in emerging economies. Featuring our five...
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Before Taking Off, A Sneak at Next Week’s NextBillion.net Content
Although I will miss my first 4th of July weekend living in the United States, I?m thrilled to be able to join my country?s own national celebration this weekend. I?m sitting right now at a gate at Dulles waiting for my flight to Bogota to start boarding, and I cannot wait to get over...
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Growing Inclusive Markets and Creative Capitalism
Two quick notes: First, the Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative at the UN Development Program formally launched their report called Creating Value for All. In it, you’ll find some policy prescriptions, case studies, a strategy matrix and - perhaps most interesting - heat maps. Hat tip to...
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Roundup: Expo Zaragoza ’08 and Other Reasons to Join the Water Conversation
If there was ever a good summer to be in Spain, 2008 was it. Not only because of the great celebrations that surely followed Torres’ match-winning goal last Sunday, but also because of the remarkable Expo Zaragoza 08. Titled “Water and Sustainable Development", the Expo will...
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Job: Business Development Analyst, Acumen Fund
Position: Business Development Associate/AnalystLocation: New York CityOrganization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to create a blueprint for building financially sustainable and scalable...
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How to Stimulate Innovation in India?
This is exactly the same question that was asked by the World Bank last year and I have recently had the chance to read their subsequent report ?Unleashing India?s Innovation?. All in all it was an interesting reading with a complete analysis of the main innovation levers in the...
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Roundup: Growing Inclusive Markets, iBOP Asia and More
A quick roundup of base of the pyramid news and notes, including a few new publications that have made it on my to-read list: The UN Development Program launched a new website highlighting its Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative, which Staff Writer Grace Augustine covered here. (Full...
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