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The LivelyHoods Hustle: Why sales and marketing skills are a natural fit for Nairobi slum youth
The creativity and intelligence of more than 75 percent of the Kenya’s youth goes underutilized in the current job market. Often, they are not only a wasted resource, but contribute to insecurity and unrest when left with few alternatives to survive. We founded LivelyHoods to address this problem by offering sales and marketing training to young people in Nairobi slums.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Four Lessons From a Social Entrepreneur : Tackling the youth employment crisis in Southern Africa
News headlines are replete with stories of a growing youth bulge and impending youth unemployment crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Still, many social entrepreneurs are at work even now creating solutions to these types of challenges—a sort of counter-balance that shapes fortune out of misfortune. Young Africa is one of them.
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- Education
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Using Feedback Loops to Move from Collaboration to Collective Impact : Part 2 in a series on the power of community feedback
This is the second post in a series on the power and potential of feedback loops to increase the social benefits of development assistance. In it, Jeff Edmondson of StriveTogether discusses the importance of being more disciplined about feedback loops and creating incentives that focus the right people on the right work at the right time.
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- Education
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Duke Global Health Institute brings pediatric care to Guatemala
A multidisciplinary team from Duke is providing pediatric surgical care and research in Guatemala, where access to medical services is limited.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Latin America
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African Medical students join fight against diabetes
Over 5000 medical students at the University of Nairobi, Makerere University and University of Namibia are set to steer the fight against diabetes.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: What’s your feedback loop? (Part 1)
With social change organizations desperate to find fitting solutions for the people they are trying to help, it’s curious that they haven’t been able to tap into this methodology. Why can’t social change organizations implement feedback programs that are equally effective? Is it possible to create similar mechanisms that require social change organizations to listen to what communities want—and then act on what they hear?
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- Education
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Weekly Roundup – 11/22/13: Nudging the middle men and women of social enterprise
A new working paper doesn’t simply look at what small and growing businesses (those categorized seeking growth capital of between $20,000-$2 million) need to be doing, but what the “intermediaries” need to be doing to lift budding businesses.