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Engaging the Diaspora Communities for Development: Calvert Foundation aims to join retail investing for good with diaspora populations
This week, we are excited to explore values-based investing with a new demographic: diaspora communities. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded Calvert Foundation a grant to conduct a feasibility study for the diaspora initiative, with the goal of launching a pilot for a specific diaspora community at the conclusion of the study.
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- impact investing, research
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Modelling Inclusive Business Success: Online course on managing key BoP biz barriers kicks off in fall 2013
The European BoP Learning Labs and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development are to teaming up to offer an e-learning course this autumn. The course will target technical and middle management professionals who aim to improve their understanding and skills on approaches to developing, implementing, and scaling inclusive business models.
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- Education
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Imagining a ‘Smart Country’ – Such as Rwanda
Everyone is talking about “smart development” and “smart solutions” – the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to tackle the most pressing development problems such as poverty, access to basic services, and job creation. But if a whole country decided to become “smart” what would that look like to its citizens, government, and private sector?
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Building an Affordable Learning Market: The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund one year on, lessons learned in education impact investing
The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) was established in May 2012, with a mandate to invest in the creation and servicing of low-cost-private school chains around the globe. Here are a few of the things we’ve learned about education impact investing in the year since we launched.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Enlisting Quacks in the Battle Against TB: An alarming study from Lepra highlights the need to train and regulate informal providers
Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease - and improper treatment can increase its drug resistance. But alarming research from the international charity Lepra suggests that proper treatment is rare among the informal providers common at the BoP. Lepra spoke with NextBillion Health Care about the need to enlist these providers in the fight against TB.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Announcing the NextBillion Case Writing Competition: (AKA: The people you need to impress)
This much you may already know: We’re looking forward to bringing back the NextBillion Case Writing Competition in 2014 thanks to the sponsorship of Citi Foundation and the administrative guidance of GlobaLens. Here’s what you may not know: The people you will need to impress with your cases. I’m excited to announce the judges for next year’s case writing competition.
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- Education
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RuralShores: Bringing jobs to rural India
RuralShores is a business process outsourcing (BPO) company focused on generating rural employment. The Bangalore, India based firm hopes to provide employment to more than 100,000 rural youth by setting up centers in each of India’s 500 rural districts. To help stem the tide of rural young people who migrate to cities in search of jobs, RuralShores creates employment opportunities in small villages.
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- Education, Technology
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Beyond the Clinic: A holistic approach to creating community health in Ecuador
Most health care systems are structured to treat illness. APROFE, an Ecuadorian non-profit, focuses on preventing it by creating thriving communities. Its outreach programs include everything from health education and preventive care to entrepreneurial development, aiming to make communities – and the people in them – healthy, happy and prosperous.
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- Education, Health Care