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SOCAP11 Preview: How to Design Empathy and Other IDEO.org Projects
Jocelyn Wyatt, the long-time leader of social innovation at IDEO, recently became the co-lead and executive director of IDEO.org, the firm’s newly-launched non-profit started to address poverty-related challenges through design. She will be hosting Design Lab Office Hours at this year’s SOCAP and shares some experiences from IDEO.org’s early days.
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- Impact Assessment
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- scale
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Mixing Oil and Water in SME Development
Like oil and water, many would argue major energy companies don’t mix with advancing social impact. However, in an industry better known for oil spills and fat profits, the Shell Foundation is shattering stereotypes by providing financing for energy and infrastructure organizations too small for commercial funding and too large for microfinance.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Impact Measurement Mastery: 5 Lessons Learned Working With Colombian Entrepreneurs
New Ventures, which supports environmentally-focused SMEs in six emerging markets, recently hosted its first impact measurement workshop for social entrepreneurs in Bogota, Colombia. Entrepreneurs learned to measure and report impact, and New Ventures improved how to frame the value of impact measurement. Check out the five lessons of the workshop.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Impact Across the Developing World: TechnoServe’s 2010 Annual Report
In 2010, TechnoServe assisted 2,770 businesses across more than 30 developing countries. These businesses employed 40,300 people and bought products from 270,800 small-scale producers. Behind each of these numbers is a story of change.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Low Maintenance, Low Cost, X-Runner Redefining the Toilet
X-Runner, a social venture based in Germany and India that has designed a low-cost mobile toilet suitable for urban slum households. The portable, low-water toilet is made of light-weight PPC material and costs $30 per unit. Included in that cost is a home service to remove the waste and deliver it to local biogas plant for eventual biogas use.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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INNOVARE or the Phenomenon of the Unprecedented Question
Alejandro Aravena is one of the most internationally successful Chilean architects for his work in ELEMENTAL, a for profit "Do Tank" project with social interests that works on public impact projects at the Catholic University of Chile and COPEC. Aravena did what few can do: focus on asking the right questions to clearly define a problem to solve.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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For Piramal Fellows, Innovation Comes Naturally
The Piramal Fellowship for Sustainable Business is an opportunity for aspiring business and community leaders to engage where business and social impact meet. Fellows are placed in leadership roles with for-profit ventures designed for social and environmental change. As the organization recruits its next class, two fellows share their experiences.
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: Are We Measuring? Too Much?
’Impact assessment’ has become a mantra across much of the social entrepreneurship and impact investing scene. Are we measuring enough? The right thing? In the right way? Or, maybe... are we measuring too much?
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- Impact Assessment
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