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NexThought Monday: 8 HR Innovation Strategies to Sustain, Grow Social Enterprises
It’s common knowledge that social enterprises perennially struggle with retaining talent, especially in middle management. It thus becomes critical for social enterprises to think creatively and try a variety of innovative tactics. Our research has identified eight effective strategies of several social enterprises to attract and retain talent.
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- Education
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- academia
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(With Video) Chronicling the ’Spark’ of Libera
Africa Interactive, is a social venture that works with a network of 2,000 local media professionals throughout Africa and produces content for a variety organizations across the continent. In the last year we produced a series of videos, called Spark Africa, dedicated to sustainable developments, innovative projects and entrepreneurship.
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- Education, Environment
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Pipeline Fund Fellowship: Inspiring Colombian Women to Invest
Investing in women is "smart economics," according to a 2006 World Bank report and Natalia Oberti Noguera is doing just that. Through her new for-profit venture, The Pipeline Fund Fellowship, she’s diversifying the investor pool by training women philanthropists to become angel investors to help create capital for women entrepreneurs.
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- Education
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- impact investing
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New NB Roles for Lall and Kendall, the Best of April ’Deviants’ and All
We recently announced several changes to the NextBillion team. In fact, with Francisco Noguera moving to the role of staff writer and a host of new scribes joining, there was too much news for one post. I’d like to take a few graphs to make a few more editorial announcements. Plus - the top-read NB posts for April. Was there wisdom in the crowds?
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- Education
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Unlocking Opportunity for SMEs Through Innovative Training
Have you ever found yourself dozing off in class or at a workshop? Most of us can relate to this and know the phrase ?death by PowerPoint.? So why continue to teach or train in this way? And entrepreneurs and farmers will struggle just as much, if not more, to learn via this method. Learn how one group is tackling this issue head-on.
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- Agriculture, Education
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NexThought Monday: Thanking Veterans, Welcoming New Faces
NextBillion is and always will be a work in progress - whether it?s the user mechanics of our site, the design or the content. Our writers are no exception. So, change happens. Today, we want to welcome some new NextBillion staff writers, but also honor editors/writers who have contributed mightily to the success of NextBillion over the years.
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- Education
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The BoP In Pictures: One Beekeeper, Many Hives in Kenya
Honey Care Africa has been providing small bee farmers such as Kenyan apiarist Joyce Kavinya Motunga, with opportunities that have the potential to greatly increase their income. Honey Care Africa partners with NGOs to distribute its "Business in a Beehive" package to farmers - providing them a guaranteed price and a stable market for their honey.
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- Agriculture, Education
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ViewChange: Harnessing Commercial Markets to Fight Malaria
Today is World Malaria Day 2011. NextBillion video partner ViewChange is highlighting several films today that shine a light on successful anti-malaria enterprises, including NetMark, a public-private partnership dedicated to reducing malaria by harnessing the power of commercial markets to distribute insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs).
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- Education, Health Care
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