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Energy access for all in Africa: does enterprise hold the key?
Local companies, international groups and charities are all using business approaches to improve access to clean, safe energy
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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15 Young Go-getters You’ll Want to Meet
Over the last six months, the PBS NewsHour's Agents for Change series has profiled the work of highly motivated social entrepreneurs, under the age of 40, who are starting to make their mark on the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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‘Extraordinary and Unorthodox’ Ideas Welcome: The competition is back for 2013
Extraordinary and Unorthodox Philanthropy competition is back for 2013 with a $10,000 prize for the best idea that will have a “transformational impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged people.” The contest also offers the “possibility” of up to $100,000 in “implementation funding” to bring the winning idea to reality.
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- Impact Assessment
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Change.org scores $15M from Omidyar Network to grow the world’s largest petition service
Popular social petition service Change.org has raised $15 million in new funding — cash that will help it further build up the “world’s largest petition platform.”
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Entrepreneurship and Social Impact in the Middle East — Business as Unusual?
It is a striking feature of the growing startup ecosystems in the Middle East that the lines between “entrepreneurship” and “social entrepreneurship” — that is, entrepreneurship that makes a social impact — often blur.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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‘Slum Tourism’ for Impact?: Reality Tours couples education and social change
Besides the goal of providing visitors with a deeper understanding of India’s largest slum, Dharavi, Reality Tours has also dedicated 80 percent of its profits (about 30 percent of gross revenues) for social projects. Most of these resources are used by Reality Gives, a sister organization that performs social projects focused on the community’s youth. These include providing classes in art, English, computing, vocational training, skill development and personal health programs.
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- Impact Assessment
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Women floriculturists turn entrepreneurs
Defying illiteracy, 420 women floriculturists from Kotha Reddypalem and Patha Reddypalem villages in Machilipatnam have proved that they can be successful entrepreneurs
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- Impact Assessment
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Pharmacovigilance Reporting Goes Digital in Kenya
Monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and poor-quality human medicines has gone digital in Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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