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What does the Future Hold for Rural Chinese Borrowers?
"In China, people try not to think about the countryside at all. When they do, it is not of a rural idyll, but a grim, dirty place where people are poor and life is harsh. In Britain the countryside is somewhere to escape to. In China it is somewhere to escape from.” I read these...
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Jobs/Careers: Apply for the Acumen Fund Fellows Program
Each year, the Acumen Fund Fellows Program provides extraordinary young professionals with a unique opportunity to use their skills to effect real social change with our portfolio organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, India and Pakistan, and to build lasting relationships with other...
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Talent Strategy for NextBillion Enterprises
On NextBillion.net, we have discussed business models, strategies, and funding for successful enterprises aimed at the world?s poorest citizens. Another critical issue is getting the right talent.Sure, you are catering to the Next Billion people. Sure, you have unprecedented hype - and...
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Update: CatComm’s Community Solutions Competition Extended Deadline for Submission
I wanted to re-post this announcement since the deadline has been extended to September 28, 2007Catalytic Communities has launched a competition in which participants will help identify creative, community-based solutions to challenges in Education & Skill-building, and Business &...
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Social Marketing in the Developing World: What Have we Accomplished and What Does the Future Hold?
Private Sector Partnerships for Better Health (PSP-One) along with USAID are seeking for submission of abstracts for the upcoming 2008 On-line Social Marketing Conference. The deadline is September 30!There are nine different topics to choose from. “The topics can be addressed...
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Jobs: Ashoka’s Full Economic Citizenship Initiative, Egypt
Ashoka?s Full Economic Citizenship initiative (FEC) aims to create pioneering large-scale solutions for low-income populations by harnessing the joint power of businesses and citizen sector organizations.Ashoka seeks a team of entrepreneurial individuals to launch a country-wide ?Housing...
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Fall 2007 Issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review is Out
The latest issue of one of my favorite journals - Stanford Social Innovation Review - is out; they only have 4 issues a year, so I get really excited when the new issue comes out. There are a couple of interesting articles in the Fall 2007 issue addressing both the non-profit and the for-profit...
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Reflections on “India’s Rural Poor- Why Housing Isn’t Enough to Create Sustainable Communities”
Knowledge @ Wharton published an article on the living conditions of India?s rural poor, and on the shortcomings of central and state-funded government housing programs. The author, Abraham George, maintains that the primary reason for failure is an exclusive focus on providing low-cost...
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