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Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatible
Why should poor people receive the most obsolete technologies—when their lives can be impacted the most by advances in technology? Should my education and talent be used to make rich and powerful corporations even more so—or to help those in need? These are questions that Alfredo Zolezzi agonized over after achieving early success as a scientist and entrepreneur.
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- Impact Assessment
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Putting a Face to Social Innovation: Without adoption, there can be no innovation
Having a hard time defining social innovation? So did I, but as I recently learned social innovation is one of those things you simply “know when you see.” I recently had the opportunity to participate in an exciting panel on the matter at the II BASE Forum International, a large-scale international event celebrated by the IDB in Medellín, Colombia in June.
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- Impact Assessment
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Pedaling for progress with cargo bikes
For Victoria Holanda, fetching water used to be a backbreaking chore. “Dati ay suson naming mag-asawa ang isang kawayan; ang timba ay nasa gitna naming dalawa,” she recalled. “Inaabot kami ng tatlong oras araw-araw sa pag-igib ng tubig mula sa isang bukal na 500 metro ang layo sa bahay namin.”
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Intellecap Impact And Unilazer Invest In Head Held High
Angels of the Intellecap Impact Investment Network and Unilazer Ventures, amongst others, have invested R2.5 Cr into Bangalore-based startup - Head Held High Services, a rural skills development and employment creation enterprise. The investment will be used to scale up operations and ink important partnerships over the next 12 months.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Students need to be challenged on social innovation, says Microsoft
“Instead of standardized teaching, our schools and our educators need to teach innovation” – Microsoft Malta
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Literacy Bridge Uses Talking Books to Spread the Word in Ghana
On a warm spring evening in 2006, software consultant Cliff Schmidt decided to take a walk near the hotel where he was staying for a conference in Atlanta, not yet knowing that what he would stumble upon would alter his life's path.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Investing Under the Sea: Shrimp and Sea Cucumber Farms Offer Models for Aquaculture Investments
From shrimp in Mexico to sea cucumbers in Madagascar, pioneering NGOs are testing new approaches to open ocean aquaculture that emphasize environmental stewardship and increasing local wealth — and lay the foundation for financially investable models.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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‘Frightening Hype’ in Impact Investing and Other Ways to Move the World
If non-profit ventures are able to function well and create deep impact (possibly a more transformational impact than the typical for-profit social enterprise), then perhaps we should be asking another question: How do we introduce better mechanisms to create rigor in high-performing non-profits, channel massive funding to them, and help them grow?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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