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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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Emerson on Impact Investing: Passionately Pragmatic!
As creator of the blended-value concept, Jed Emerson has made significant contributions to the way impact investing is being discussed around the globe. In our conversation, Emerson shared his passionate yet pragmatic thinking about the status quo of impact investing, where he sees its risks and how to unleash billions of dollars in social capital.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Beyond BASE: The Needs Are Here Now, So Are the Markets
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Opportunities for the Majority Initiative recently held its first international event on Business at the Base of the Pyramid. BoP "thought" history was made as business leaders from across Latin America mixed with NGOs, think tanks, consulting firms and other players. Here just a few themes that emerged.
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- Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: How to Eat Your Chocolate and Advance Development, Too
According to Global Financial Integrity, developing countries lost billions per year from 2000 to 2008 in money that is illegally earned, transferred or utilized, with a large portion coming from conflict cocoa. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a way to stop or limit funding conflict while eating chocolate too? Well, there is.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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