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Easy Money – Criticizing Microcredit
There is no doubt that there is something to microcredit, though there are critics. But have we let the hype behind the idea, (see Rob’s post about Yunus’ Nobel Peace Prize) blind our ability to see its faults?? This Forbes article, Easy Money, goes deeper into some of the fallacies of...
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Ten Entrepreneurs Who Could Change the World
"Most companies routinely fail to recognize the link between healthy ecosystems and their business interests...Business simply cannot function if ecosystems and the services they deliver--like water, biodiversity, food, fibre and climate regulation--are degraded or out of balance.” ...
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Next Steps Research
NextBillion ally Wayne Farmer e-mailed me yesterday with some exciting news: his company, Next Steps Research, is hiring. Before joining the founders at Next Steps, Wayne was involved in running the HealthStore Foundation, which manages a network of nurse-owned and operated pharmacy clinics in...
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Google.org Hiring BOP Staff
NB’s Chapel Hill NC correspondent, Jacob Kramer-Duffield, has sent an interesting job posting our way.? Jake, a former sometime WRI staffer, and now a PhD student at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, keeps close tabs on the goings-on at Google.? Google.org, the...
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Wal-Mart’s Base of the Pyramid Play
There are skeptics in any field ? base of the pyramid business is no different. Over the years, however, the nature of BOP skepticism has changed. At first, many questioned whether low-income, emerging markets really mattered to businesses’ bottom lines and growth strategies. While...
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$50,000 prizes, 25 Laureates, 1 Bill Gates
Ah, the Tech Museum Awards. It was a night when large tech companies and foundations joined together to support the work of smaller humanitarian tech innovators.Last Wednesday, Intel, Accenture, Microsoft, Agilent, and the Swanson Foundation recognized the work of 25 organizations through the...
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Village: The Game Update
I first reported on Village: The Game ? think SimCity meets social entrepreneurship ? back in August.? At the time, the game’s web site featured little more than a proposal and the passionate musings of its creator, Darian Hickman.? I checked back in on Village: The Game today, and...
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Don’t Miss the Fast 50 Awards!
As I looked over the Social Capitalist Award winners (again) this morning, I couldn’t help thinking about the Fast 50 Awards - also done by Fast Company. While the Social Capitalist Awards include NGOs and charities that are using business strategies to make the world better, the Fast...
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