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Founders vs. Funders: How the Two Sides of the Investing Relationship Can Foster More Effective Collaboration to Maximise Impact at Scale
Funders in the social impact space and founders of social ventures depend on one another to drive positive change at scale, so their relationship must be built on trust and alignment. But as Fan Gu at 100x Impact Accelerator explains, these partnerships are often marred by complex dynamics that threaten their success. She shares some of the key ingredients to effective partnerships between these two crucial players in the social impact sector, based on insights from 100x's community of funders, entrepreneurs and non-profits.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Upaya Social Ventures Announces Leadership Transition: Kate Cochran to Step Down as CEO; Shruti Goel and AB Chakravarthy Appointed Co-CEOs
Upaya Social Ventures, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting extreme poverty through dignified job creation, today announced a significant leadership transition.
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- Social Enterprise
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Press Release: WDI Board Appoints Taylor as New President
Wendy Taylor brings a wealth of experience and leadership in global innovation and entrepreneurship to the role.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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A Hidden Reason for Business Failure in Social Enterprise: Exploring Innovative Talent Solutions in Frontier Markets
Social enterprises need extraordinary talent and leadership to navigate the challenges of doing business in frontier markets. As Paul Breloff at Shortlist and Daniel Waldron and Coco Lim at Acumen explain, failure to find the right talent is a leading factor in company and investment failure — and top talent is in short supply, and often comes at a steep cost. They share learnings from Acumen and Shortlist's shared experience recruiting and retaining talent, exploring some innovative approaches that go beyond traditional full-time structures.
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- Social Enterprise
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Nobel Winner Muhammad Yunus Brings ‘Social Business’ Mantra to Olympics
Nobel Winner Muhammad Yunus' role in Paris as an advisor and ambassador for socially responsible business is a departure from his usual work.
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- Social Enterprise
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More Data is Not the Answer: Why We Need to Reset Our Expectations for Impact Measurement and Management
Impact measurement and management (IMM) is gaining momentum. As Julia Mensink at Acumen explains, while the sector was once underfunded and under-emphasized, it is now taken much more seriously — not only by impact investors, but also by mainstream banks, pension funds and corporations. But she argues that this progress has brought with it some challenges, including investors' growing demand for rigorous impact data, regardless of the challenges this data collection and reporting may present to entrepreneurs. She proposes some ways investors can work with social enterprises to shift IMM from a burden to a means to greater impact.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press Release: Call for Nominations: Sixth Annual .ORG Impact Awards to Recognize Global Changemakers
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind .ORG, today opened the nomination period for its sixth annual .ORG Impact Awards, an annual celebration that recognizes outstanding mission-driven individuals and organizations from the global .ORG Community for their positive contributions to society.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Global
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- nonprofits
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Women Sales Agents are the Key to Last-Mile Distribution: Here are Four Ways to Maximize Their Impact
Many development and entrepreneurship programs around the world have engaged women sales agents as last-mile distributors, as their involvement can advance multiple business and impact goals. But as Shihab Uzzaman and Trisha Clauson at Bopinc point out, though some of these initiatives have succeeded, many have failed. They share four key practices Bopinc leveraged in a last-mile distribution project in Bangladesh that can boost the performance of other businesses and programs that enlist women sales agents in their distribution efforts.
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- Social Enterprise
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