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Charitable foundations look towards impact investing
Pierre Omidyar wanted to take the fortune he earned from his company, eBay, and become a philanthropist. So he started a traditional foundation for giving out grants. He called it the Omidyar Family Foundation.
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The Best of 2012: Lessons from SOCAP : It’s Time to Get Serious
We need to start getting serious about the cultural and economic forces that are holding back impact investors, if our collective intent is focused on scale and impact. We need to start finding winners, and we need to start looking in places we wouldn’t expect them to hide.
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Tata launches ‘Social Enterprise Challenge’
Mumbai, Dec 27 — Aiming to find the country's most promising social enterprises, the Tata Group has launched the 'Tata Social Enterprise Challenge' in association with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), a company statement said here Thursday.
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Independent evaluation validates UNITAID’s approach
UNITAID has established itself as a pioneering innovative financing mechanism with a successful business model to improve product markets for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, according to UNITAID’s first independent Five-Year Evaluation.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Billionaire Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media Details Plans To Launch Its Own Cable Channel
Jeff Skoll, the former eBay executive who is dedicated to solving the world’s big problems, has just taken a step to expand his movie company Participant Media – the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, Food Inc. and The Help — into cable TV.
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Is Your Impact a 1, a 5, or a 10?: Rating human needs and aspirations
The problem at the base of the pyramid is most often not the absence of needed goods and services, but rather difficulties in accessing them. Social enterprises are an exciting prospect because they have the potential to address this challenge. At their core, successful businesses are profitable, sustainable, and scalable. When they are successful, social enterprises can be a source of hope for serving the billions living in poverty today. But how do we measure the products of their work?
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What Is eBay’s Omidyar Doing on Delhi’s MedTech Row?
Pierre Omidyar is best known as the founder of the online auction company e-Bay, which he grew from an “odd little Web site” to one of Web commerce’s biggest and longest-lasting success stories.
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Fantino’s private-sector foreign aid: It can work, if he gets the details right
The world’s poorest, sacrificed to the whims of the almighty market. Charities and non-governmental organizations carrying the water for profitable mining companies. Profits before people. These are just some of the critiques levelled against the federal government’s foreign-aid pivot, recently formalized in an address by new International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino.
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