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Orissa-based Milk Mantra raises $13M in Series C led by Fidelity Growth Partners
The transaction also had a secondary component where 25 angel investors and an old fund under Aavishkaar have exited.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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The apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble
Competition to the M-Pesa is heating up in Kenya, the world’s most advanced mobile payments market.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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- Impact Assessment
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Trouble Brewing in Microfinance?: Peru and Mexico’s microcredit sectors appear to be in danger of collapsing – and the market-driven model is to blame
In spite of its well-publicized struggles, the market-driven microcredit model remains a revered concept, linked to the belief that free markets and business solutions are the best solutions to poverty. But according to Milford Bateman, flaws in the market-driven model itself are responsible for grave challenges facing Peru and Mexico’s celebrated microcredit sectors.
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- Impact Assessment
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Google announces ‘Android One’ standard for affordable devices, arriving first in India at under $100
Google has revealed a new program called Android One which will specify a set of hardware and software guidelines for device makers to adhere to if they wish to attain official ‘Android One’ status.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- South Asia
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The Impact Generation Has Arrived
Imagine for a minute that you can invest in one of two companies:
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- Impact Assessment
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Save the Children and Ikea tie up to prevent child labour in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan
The programme is aimed at protecting 790,000 children living in cotton communities in these states
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Want To ‘Scale’ Social Impact? Then Give Away Your Trade Secrets
If the ecosystem of social change were an orchestra, social enterprise would be an amped-up brass section drowning out all the other instruments and any semblance of nuance.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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