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Profit-Driven Problem Solvers – The Fast 50 Awards
BOP businesses and entrepreneurs, take note: Fast Company wants you. The magazine?s sixth annual Fast 50 Awards will spotlight businesses that are helping to save the world ? a can?t-miss opportunity for worthy base of the pyramid initiatives to make waves in the mainstream media. From...
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Rising Ventures: Cuadritos Fights Hunger With Business
It is tragic that in a country where 17,000 tons of food are thrown away every day, 10% of the population is malnourished. That is what struck Hector Gonzales, anyway, when he decided this issue was far too important for a business such as his to ignore. It is upon this foundation of...
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Global Giving Olympics
Saima Zaman, a former colleague of mine, sent me a note the other day to tell me about her latest project: the Global Giving Olympics. For the next 3 weeks, project leaders at Global Giving will compete for cash prizes ? whoever mobilizes the most support receives a windfall bonus. This...
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Development Marketplace 2007
Just around the corner is the deadline for entries to the World Bank Development Marketplace 2007 competitive grant program. This year, approximately $4 million is available for awards of $50-200K to projects that are “improving results in health, nutrition and population for the...
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Jobs in BOP-related Organizations
Every once in a while, we receive queries about job opportunities with us or organizations with a similar focus on market-based development strategies. Here’s a roundup of openings that might catch your eye. If you have an opening you would like to advertise on NextBillion, please contact...
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Shame on CNN: Remittances Become Political
I attended the press conference Wednesday, at which the new findings on remittances. Interviews with 2500+ migrants in the US, the IADB (research by Bendixen & Associates) give us a statistically valid picture of the dimensions of US-LAC remittances, and the IADB concludes that the number...
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Check out what’s new in the activity database…
I’ve recently been reading through some past blogs, keeping a keen and curious eye out for activities to add to NextBillion’s activity database...care to see what I found? Some very interesting, and of course worthwhile projects...ZENUFA Laboratories - TanzaniaZenufa, a pharmaceutical...
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News Roundup: Tierney, Hubbard, HP Suggest BOP Mainstream
Mainstream media coverage of the intersection between business and poverty has been strong of late, undoubtedly catalyzed by Yunus winning the Peace Prize last week.? Three stories ? two from National Public Radio and one from the New York Times ? bear special mention here on NextBillion....
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