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Weekly Roundup: Planting the SEED
Social enterprises face a number of extreme challenges that are difficult to surmount in the first few years, at the center of which is the challenge of creating viable, scalable business models around their social innovations. That’s why Villgro, a social enterprise incubator in Chennai, India, has created an intensive training program geared to speed up the business model refinement process for entrepreneurs who have not yet raised external investment, with the aim of helping them to raise their first rounds of funding.
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Weekly Roundup: Taking the Long View on Capitalism
The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) bills itself as an “open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind’s most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.” That’s evident from the winning submissions to the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge.
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Help Wanted: Have a Job to Fill? Introducing Featured Jobs on NextBillion
Today NextBillion is launching a new enhancement we think will help both employers and job hunters: Featured Jobs. What’s the value of a Featured Job versus a free job posting on NextBillion? Find out why you should advertise your jobs, fellowships and volunteer opportunities on NextBillion!
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Weekly Roundup: A Look at the Recent Impact Investing Conversation (Cacophony)
Impact investing’s presence in the news and online discussions seemed to grow exponentially this week and last week. Here are just a few stories that breathed optimism into the impact investing field by speaking to the associated markets crossed our desks.
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Announcing Our New E-book: THE Big IDEA: Global Spread of Affordable Housing
Our affordable housing series from late 2011 was a special project, and we wanted to do something special to match it. So, along with our Content Partner Ashoka, we’re excited to announce the publication of our new e-book: The BIG IDEA: Global Spread of Affordable Housing.
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Touring the New NextBillion: New Jobs, Events Calendar
With the redesigned NB, we think we’ve made it easier to find, share and submit jobs; while keeping up with important dates on your social enterprise calendar. So let me take this opportunity to quickly walk you through these new features.
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The NEXT NextBillion …
Just a quick note to all NextBillion readers:
We are moving to a new site design/platform and are going through the proverbial Beta testing. Please bear with us while we work the kinks out over the next few days and bring new systems online.
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NextBillion is Now Available on Google Currents
Some of you, in fact nearly 2,000 of you as of this writing, have discovered that NextBillion was recently included among the first 180 content providers in the new Google Currents application. For everyone else with an Android phone or tablet, or an iPhone or iPad, we hope you join us by downloading the free Google Currents and subscribing to NB.
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