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Recruiting Women To The Burgeoning (But Mostly Male) Host Of Angel Investors
Women philanthropists have traditionally stood back from venture capital startups and angel investing; only 13% of angel investors in the U.S. are women. That’s why Natalia Oberti Noguera, a 2005 Yale graduate, founded an angel-investing bootcamp for women. Created to increase the ratio of women angel investors in the social good category, Oberti Noguera’s Pipeline Fellowship is announcing a call for applications for women philanthropists who want to be angel investors in s...
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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In Next Practice Collaborative, Top Companies Transition To Low-Carbon Future
CK Prahalad described benchmarking corporate performance against tomorrow’s emerging opportunities as ’next practice’. This week, WRI announced the Next Practice Collaborative with a cross-sector group of major companies to examine new business and finance models for low-carbon economic growth in major markets, including Mexico, India and Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care
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Sustainable, Equitable Transportation Policy and the Rickshaw
In cities across South Asia, the ubiquitous rickshaw dominates traffic tangled streets. Yet, solutions to the problem are not as simple as just eliminating the toxic three-wheelers. Integrating new innovations in rickshaw design, manufacturing or upgrading are essential to a pro-poor and environmentally friendly transportation policy.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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- transportation
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In the Philippines, Tablets, Smartphones Lift Market-Based Approaches to Universal Care
Like many industrialized countries, out-of-pocket spending by consumers on health care is often a big problem in the developing world. The national health insurance program in the Philipines, PhilHealth, is constantly innovating with new ways to improve insurance coverage and lower costs. How market-based approaches are playing a critical role.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Public-Private Engagement for Better Health in Africa
While assessing the good, the bad, and the innovative, new report by the World Bank Group finds that public-private engagement is less than systematic. The Healthy Partnerships report evaluates engagement with private providers in 45 African countries. Lead author Connor Spreng, an economist at the World Bank, on the findings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- governance
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What Does It Take to Build a Market? (An India Session @ SOCAP Europe)
How big can impact investing become? When looking for an answer (and hoping to find an encouraging one), it?s best examine a big country - like India. That’s precisely what did McKinsey and Omidyar Network did. The two organizations presented a BoP market study at SOCAP/Europe revealing a bullish outlook despite latent demand.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Healthpoint India Picks Up Sankalp Award, Investment
Healthpoint Services India Pvt. Ltd. had a busy Tuesday: Winning the Sankalp Award for Innovative Enterprises, and announcing the closure of a new investment to fuel its growth plans.
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- Health Care
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Less Hungry, More Human: A Marketing Perspective to Fighting Malnutrition
As the World Food Programme launches a glitzy new fundraising campaign called A Billion for A Billion, maybe it could learn from P&G’s 3D White Collection, which was the most successful non-foods new product launch in 2011, with over $151 million in sales. While the latter may not be particularly noble, marketers are clearly doing something right.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise