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WRI Releases Case Study on Conversion Franchising Pioneer, CareShop Ghana
Though I’m no longer on WRI and NextBillion’s staff, I’m glad to announce the release of WRI’s latest What Works business case study, CareShop Ghana: Improving access to essential drugs through conversion franchising. This study is authored by Joel Segre (Harvard Business...
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What Goes from Capital Markets to the BoP
Two stories have got me thinking about capital markets and their interaction with the BoP. The first one involves a State Minister of an industrialized country announcing funding for a project to create a “social stock market". The second one features 12,500(!) new shareholders of a...
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Fellowship Opportunity: YouthActionNet
If you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, and have founded a social or BoP enterprise, check out the description below.Launched in 2001 by the International Youth Foundation, YouthActionNet strengthens, supports, and celebrates the role of young people in leading positive change in their...
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Guest Post: Gender and Sustainable Energy at WIREC 2008
Saurabh Lall is a Research Assistant with the New Ventures project.A quick Friday point of interest from the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference that took place at the Convention Center here in DC earlier this month. The WIREC tradeshow showcased the latest developments in...
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Guest Post: The Dilemmas of Scaling BoP Ventures
Guest blogger Apoorva Shah, a recent graduate of Rice University, is currently a Wagoner Scholar working with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public to research the influence of social entrepreneurship on public policy. Currently in S?o Paulo, Brazil, he wrote this post from Colombo, Sri Lanka. ...
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Examining Entrepreneurs at the BoP
The Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN) has just invested $100,000 to research the age-old question of what factors lead some entrepreneurs to success and others to failure, only this grant is one of the few to support research on this topic in the developing world. S.E.VEN has awarded...
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Job: Associate – SeaChange Capital Partners
Position: AssociateLocation: South Norwalk, CTOrganization: SeaChange Capital Partners is an entrepreneurial nonprofit finance firm established by former leaders of Goldman Sachs. Our mission is to enhance the flow of growth capital from wealthy donors to select high-performing...
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2008 Skoll World Forum Preview
I like late March. Here in New York - and in Washington, where I used to live - late March is when spring starts to take hold, bringing longer, warmer days. It’s also when the annual Skoll World Forum takes place, bringing a breath of fresh air to cloudy, rainy England (apologies for the...
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