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Doing Good By Selling Well: How Social Enterprises Can Transform Their Sales Strategies by Boosting Customers’ ‘Decision Intelligence’
A social enterprise may have a brilliant product, local production and an affordable price point – but unless it has an effective and ethical sales strategy, it will struggle to fulfill its mission, says Roy Whitten of Whitten & Roy Partnership. He explains how traditional, pressure-filled sales methods can create distrust among customers and encourage bad behavior among salespeople, and explores the advantages of a more ethical approach based on boosting customers' "decision intelligence."
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- Entrepreneurship
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Unilever Unveils Program to Support Women in Businesses
Unilever’s Sunlight, has invested in a five-year program to support women in business through various initiatives such as financial literacy training and advertising.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Expanding Digital and Financial Inclusion: World Bank Supports Morocco’s Reforms for Social and Economic Resilience
The World Bank today approved a US $450 million loan to support momentum in Morocco for reforms designed to increase public access to financial and digital services.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Finance
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- North Africa & Near East
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Google Launches New Programs to Bolster African Innovation, Female Entrepreneurship
Google has announced the launch and opening of applications of a new US$3 million Black Founders Fund (BFF) Africa programme, and a Google.org-backed US$3 million grant to the Tony Elumelu Foundation to support female entrepreneurs on the continent.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Creativity, Culture and Capital: Why Impact Investors Should Recognize the Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy
Impact investors have been overlooking a large and rapidly growing sector, one driven by women, youth and other overlooked workers and entrepreneurs and aligned with many key impact priorities: the creative economy. Laura Callanan at Upstart Co-Lab, Fran Sanderson at Nesta and Carolina Biquard at Fundación Compromiso explain why the industry is a powerful force for social and economic development, and share insights from a recent report from Creativity, Culture & Capital, a new initiative that seeks to develop the global creative economy through impact investing.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Apna Raises $70 Million in Series B Funding From Insight Partners and Tiger Global at $570 Million Valuation
Apna will use the proceeds to strengthen its presence in existing cities and expand pan-India over the next 6 months to help restart India’s economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- coronavirus, EdTech, entrepreneurship, impact invest, jobs, tech, technology
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Press Release: Tony Elumelu Foundation Trains over 200,000 African Entrepreneurs across 54 African Countries
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has successfully trained over 200,000 entrepreneurs in core business management skills as part of its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: African Youth Are Capable Entrepreneurs, Invest in Them Now
The Future of Production indicated that the continent will, by 2030, be home to a capable labour force of over 1.6 billion, larger than Asia and South America.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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