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The Best of 2012: The Dangerous Promise of Impact Investing
In part two of my conversation with Felix Oldenburg, Ashoka’s Europe and Germany director, takes on -and takes apart- impact investing. In the days leading up to SOCAP Europe, Oldenburg offers a radical critique of the current hype surrounding impact investing. We must fund the impact - not the organization, he explains.
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- Impact Assessment
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New Techniques, Technology Helping Operation ASHA to Expand
Operation ASHA is a community-based program founded in the Delhi slums to fight the spread of antibiotic resistant TB strains by incentivizing counselors to closely monitor progress of patients and ensure they finish courses of DOTS. They have been growing at a dizzying pace with plans to expand to Cambodia, Morocco, Ghana, and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Not Just Good or Bad … But Making It Better: Ideas to Impact
The conversation around BoP ventures should not be about whether to launch them, but how to build better ones, WDI Research Fellow Ted London told attendees at UC Berkeley’s Ideas Impact (I2I) - a collaborative event with the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) last month. He provided three stages to drive BoP venture development.
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Balancing a Three-Legged Stool – Collaborations to Achieve Social Impact
The theme of last month’s Skoll World Forum, "Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks, and collaborative action," mirrors the trend to move beyond the traditional philanthropic approach of scaling high-performing social entrepreneurs toward a focus on synergy within and across sectors.
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Measuring What Matters: Social Impact Metrics 101
Every delegate comes to the Global Engagement Summit with a project in mind - some idea for global change that they want to achieve - but few actually know how to know if they are successful in their endeavors. While having a plan of action is important, having clear goals that can be measured going in is even better.
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From Unite for Sight: Hearing the Pitch
From recycled MP3 players given new life as educational tools to creating health centers at truck stops, to employing women with HIV as craftspeople, one highlight highlight of year’s Unite For Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference was attending social enterprise pitches - ideas in the early implementation or brainstorming stages.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Narratives Are Not Enough
Many of you have been tracking the aftermath of the 60 Minutes report about Greg Mortenson?s non-profit, Central Asian Institute (CAI), the allegations of mismanagement and misrepresentations in his book, Three Cups of Tea. It shows how critical it is to collect actual data on how organizations impact poverty. How can we increase transparency?
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Talking Metrics: Is Standardization a Dream?
Last week I sat down with Calvert Foundation, Grassroots Business Fund and E+Co to discuss the use of metrics by socially oriented businesses. The conversation focused on how they use metrics within their organizations and what role they see metrics playing in the future. The discussion demonstrated the need to change how stakeholders view metrics.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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