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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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NexThought Monday – The BoP Beyond Income Levels: Exploring the ‘opportunity access’ approach
The focus of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) has been centered almost exclusively in the economic limitations of low-income communities. But in our report, “Understanding the BoP from an Access to Opportunities,” we expand this focus and recognize the multidimensional concepts of poverty, including an analysis of the BoP through their access to a joining of five basic necessities: water, energy, education, housing, and information and communication technology.
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- Agriculture, Education, Impact Assessment
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The Social Progress Index:: A new language for development, or 21st century Esperanto?
Therespected Harvard professor Michael Porter, father of the catchphrase "shared value," has come up with the Social Progress Index. His guiding principle: Instead of making any attempt to balance financial metrics, such as income, against social outcomes, such as clean water, SPI simply measures the outcomes.
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- Impact Assessment
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Re-evaluating Impact Evaluation: Why solely focusing on financials is flawed and other key points from a recent workshop
Organizations struggle to develop robust impact evaluations. If poorly designed and executed, an evaluation can result in misleading conclusions and waste precious resources. A recent workshop hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs focused on outcomes data collection and analysis. Anyone concerned with social impact measurement, will want to check out these key points.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Investing