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  • Kiva Expands Micro-Loans to Green Businesses

    Kiva.org, one of the pioneers in micro-lending to international entrepreneurs, has expanded into a new vertical today- Kiva Green Loans. Green Loans, which can be accessed from a new module on the lend tab, is a new vertical that allows the Kiva community to make loans towards green businesses and individuals who are helping make the transitio...

    Source
    TechCrunch (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
  • From Unite for Sight: Hearing the Pitch

    From recycled MP3 players given new life as educational tools to creating health centers at truck stops, to employing women with HIV as craftspeople, one highlight highlight of year’s Unite For Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference was attending social enterprise pitches - ideas in the early implementation or brainstorming stages.

    Categories
    Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
    Tags
    skill development
  • Mobilizing Savings Through Insurance

    Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses the challenges and opportunities of match-savings programs and micro-insurance, and the importance of understanding clients. In Jordan, WWB is piloting a health insurance program where insurance products are coupled with loans, resulting in strong customer relationships.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    financial inclusion
  • The Results Are In: Devex Top 40 Development Innovators

    Devex is delighted to present the Top 40 Development Innovators. At the core of this initiative is a survey of aid workers and international development professionals designed to recognize the most innovative of the world’s leading international development organizations. Today, the survey is complete and the results are in!

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    business development, microfinance
  • ViewChange Video of the Week: Living Proof, Ethiopia ? The Barbershop

    In recognition of World Health Day, our video partner, ViewChange, is focusing on global health. It presents a story of one Ethiopian woman, who, after testing positive for HIV, refuses to give up. Instead, she takes out a small loan to start a business and support her family, while also vowing to educate her community about HIV.

    Categories
    Health Care, Impact Assessment
  • PepsiCo Foundation Announces $5 M Grant to IDB’s AquaFund

    The PepsiCo Foundation recently announced a $5 million grant to the AquaFund, launched by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to facilitate investment in water supply and sanitation, water resources, solid waste management and wastewater treatment. The AquaFund agreement was signed by Luis Montoya, President of PepsiCo Latin American Beverages, and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the IDB, at the International Environment Summit in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The grant will fund a...

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    Microfinance Focus (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
    Region
    Latin America
  • Reinvent Maternal Health: It’s a Challenge

    ABC News, The Lemelson Foundation, and Duke Global Health Institute recently teamed up to launch the Reinventing Maternal Health challenge. Targeted to university students, this challenge seeks to find the most innovative, impactful idea that will prevent thousands of women from dying in childbirth across the globe.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    Base of the Pyramid, public health
  • Quinoa, Dairy, Coffee: Value Chains and Rural Microcredit in Bolivia

    Bolivia has grown famous for its 20-year history in microfinance. As part of my research with microfinance group Sembrar Sartawi, I travelled to a number of predominantly poor small towns across Bolivia to better understand how three value chains - quinoa, dairy and coffee production - each defined the ways in which micro-loans are provided.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    nutrition
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