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Best Business Schools For Social Entrepreneurship
Over the last decade an increasing number of entrepreneurs are interested in initiating entrepreneurial projects that aim to bring social change. This special type of entrepreneurs are called social entrepreneurs.
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500 Million Indian Youth Need New Job Skills: Can the country’s entrepreneurs help?
Rahil Rangwala says by 2020, India will account for nearly a quarter of the global workforce, and the average age of India’s population will be 29 years (compared to 37 for the U.S. and China). But there’s a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop training that complements what employers offer in-house.
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Afford Two, Eat One: A new report explores financial inclusion in rural Myanmar
Myanmar is a country with very low formal banking penetration, but changes are afoot that will stimulate domestic financial activity. In March of this year a team of Myanmar-based researchers mapped the changing financial landscape in the country, aiming to provide a foundational reference for organizations wishing to develop products and services for financially constrained consumers.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Dating site tech inspires health research website
A meeting on drug discovery and development run by The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases in London, United Kingdom, yesterday, brimmed with useful tips and resources for the research community. One of them was the just-launched space on The Global Health Network’s website dedicated to collaboration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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- Education, Health Care
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Pizarro: Santa Clara University puts spotlight on social enterprise
Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg and Graham MacMillan, senior program director for the Citi Foundation, were presented with the first Magis Global Changemaker awards at a benefit dinner Sunday for Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society.
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How Haiti is Becoming a Leader in the Production of Quality Clothing: Industrial Revolution II is taking on the old garment industry
In late 2013, clothing industry leaders launched Industrial Revolution II, a Haiti-based garment factory that aims to invest 50 percent of profits into its workers, their families and the community while paying a living wage. While IRII has received much in the way of good press, Rahul Desai says he wanted to see for himself whether this ambitious endeavor had found a way to benefit workers while being commercially viable.
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From Financial Education to Capability – A Paradigm Shift: Financial education on its own is not enough to improve consumers’ financial health
Classroom-based educational programs for improving financial health have mixed results. Improved methods that support behavior change as well as knowledge gains are needed. Sarah Gordon, Vice President, Innovation Labs at CFSI spoke with the Citi Foundation’s COO, Brandee McHale, about the importance of these new approaches, and the organizations that are pioneering them.
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Beyond the Pioneer : Why Monitor’s next chapter on scale focuses on factors from outside of the social enterprise
We spoke with Harvey Koh, director at Monitor Inclusive Markets, about the new study, Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale. It is the widely anticipated follow up to 2012’s From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing. The new report details the very real structural barriers that social entrepreneurs must overcome if they expect to go beyond their pioneering days and reach scale.
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- Education
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