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ViewChange Video of the Week: Living Proof, Ethiopia ? The Barbershop
In recognition of World Health Day, our video partner, ViewChange, is focusing on global health. It presents a story of one Ethiopian woman, who, after testing positive for HIV, refuses to give up. Instead, she takes out a small loan to start a business and support her family, while also vowing to educate her community about HIV.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Unleash Social Impact: Ashoka’s Globalizer and Skoll World Forum
Felix Oldenburg is challenging the mainstream dialogue on social enterprise. I had an insightful conversation with Felix, Ashoka’s Europe and Germany director, and a speaker at the Skoll World Forum. He, along with Konstanze Frischen and Maria Zapata, organized Ashoka’s first-annual Globalizer program that accelerated Ashoka Fellow enterprises.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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ANDE?s 2010 Impact Report Charts A Growth Course
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) released its second annual impact report today, which highlighted the growth of the small and growing business (SGB) sector with the launch of new 31 funds looking to SGBs in emerging markets, in addition to the impact of their 110 members on the sector.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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WDI Developing BoP Asset Class in Asia Pacific Region
Developing a "blueprint" for a new asset class of private equity funds considering base of the pyramid enterprises and investments in the Asia Pacific region is the goal of a new project at the William Davidson Institute’s Development Consulting Services group.
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- Impact Assessment
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Why Global Social Enterprise Needs to Become Its Own Asset Class
Ashoka Fellow David Green makes the case that in order for the global social enterprise sector to truly grow, it must become its own asset class. That means taking the form of a pro-profit social entity with the right type of governance to insure fidelity to a social mission, while being supported with the right kind of financing.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP: Why We Hope to Hear from You
Starting Feb. 21, NextBillion, with help from Ashoka and the Center for Health Market Innovations, will begin a special series: Advancing Healthcare With the BoP. In it, we hope to bring you success stories from the field on what is making a lasting impact in market-based solutions to healthcare delivery. But, we also need the help of our readers!
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Detroit: Emerging from the Ground Up
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a unique social enterprise conference, Revitalization and Business. Its focus was not on a continent, a region, or a nation in need. Rather, it focused on one single American city-Detroit, Michigan, where small projects and individuals are making powerful waves from the ground up.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Impact Assessment Is Easy … If You Know Your Objectives
Ten years since I joined the social sector, ten years of countless discussions on impact assessment. Initially, I thought it would be impossible to effectively rate impact. But my background as an engineer led me to understand that everything can be assessed and virtually everything can be measured - for a price, that is.
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- Impact Assessment
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