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2007 Socially Responsible Business Plan Awards
Aram Kang is Program Coordinator for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at WRI.? Originally from Seoul, Korea, Aram holds an MEM from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. By Aram Kang This past Friday, April 13th, WRI hosted the William James Foundation?s 4th Annual...
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BiD Challenge Enters its 3rd Year
In Uganda, there is a small business whose model is based on manufacturing and selling products made from indigenous tree bark. The bark can be sustainably collected as this particular species of tree has the property of easily regrowing bark after being stripped bare. The material is...
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Rising Ventures: Hering Instruments Sets the Soundtrack for a Sustainable Future
The word “cool” has many connotations and it seems to be one of those colloquialisms that exists in every culture - “chido” (spelling?) if you’re passing through Mexico, Brazilians use a variety of expressions; “legal” and “ma?a” are two common...
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Rising Ventures Investor Edition: A New Fund Sets the Bar For Sustainable Investment
Could Brazil break the curve on sustainable investing? If Philippe Lisbona, manager of the new Stratus VCIII fund has his way, the country’s investment landscape could look significantly different in the next decade. Philippe’s call waiting kept buzzing incessantly during our recent...
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Job Announcement: New Ventures India Seeks Senior Manager
I just wanted to let the NextBillion community know that our New Ventures India program in Hyderabad is looking for a Senior Manager to assist with program outreach and fundraising. After organizing a successful first Investor Forum, the team has been getting a great deal of attention from the...
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Rising Ventures: Harnessing the Ingenuity of the BoP
Every entrepreneur has a story. Anyone with the wherewithal and acumen to start a business had to have something click at some point - a moment when they saw an unrecognized market opportunity and the perfect product or service to fill that gap. For Tommy Matthew, this moment came from...
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Guest Post: On Africa’s Development Compass, All Arrows Point Toward Rwanda
By Jeremy M. Goldberg and Andrew MackJeremy M. Goldberg is the Director of Communications for AMGlobal Consulting; Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting. They blog at Andy’s Global View. Rwanda?! There it was again, the same puzzled look ?...
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India’s Dabbawalas Reinvent Themselves
It’s heartening to come across real stories of people, who are by no means rich or well educated, entering and supporting the market economy. In India’s financial capital of Mumbai, Dabbawalas, whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office...
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