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Sankalp Forum Expansion to Africa: View from the Ground
In 2013, we at Intellecap expanded the Sankalp Forum program to Africa. There are many compelling reasons for “why Africa”. In our second article we share a ‘view from the ground’ on how the social enterprise ecosystem appeared to us, where the sector seems headed, and key challenges and constraints to the growth of this sector.
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- Social Enterprise
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Rethinking Impact and Redefining Success: Highlights from Unite for Sight’s Social Entrepreneurship Institute
Unite For Sight recently hosted its inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Institute, a day-long event dedicated to social entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors, including health care. Speakers focused on several key best practices in social entrepreneurship, from beginning an organization to measuring impact and eventually scaling up.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Building an India-Africa Pipeline – Part One: Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference focuses on South-South social innovation transfer
How can an India-Africa innovation transfer be hastened? What are the risks? That will be the top agenda point of Intellecap’s Sankalp Africa conference, an industry gathering of more 350 funders, entrepreneurs, intermediaries and others on Feb 12-13 in Nairobi.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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8 Defining Milestones in India’s Social Enterprise Landscape
As India celebrates its 67th year of freedom on Thursday (Aug. 15), it seems poignant to pause and reflect on eight milestones that have played an important role in shaping India’s social enterprise landscape and the lessons they teach us.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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‘Vanity is Not Monopolized By the Rich’: VisionSpring’s innovative way to sell eyeglasses proving to be sustainable; a Q&A with COO Peter Eliassen
Through a hub-and-spoke business model, middle-income customers are subsidizing company’s work with BoP consumers. And it’s proving to be sustainable.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- supply chains
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The LivelyHoods Hustle: Why sales and marketing skills are a natural fit for Nairobi slum youth
The creativity and intelligence of more than 75 percent of the Kenya’s youth goes underutilized in the current job market. Often, they are not only a wasted resource, but contribute to insecurity and unrest when left with few alternatives to survive. We founded LivelyHoods to address this problem by offering sales and marketing training to young people in Nairobi slums.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Beyond Competition: An interview with Grameen Foundation’s Steve Wright
From a traditional business perspective, social enterprise seems to be built upon a contradiction. How can you run a company whose ultimate goal is to foster and empower competitors rather than defeat them? That’s one of the topics discussed by Steve Wright, vice president of Grameen Foundation’s Poverty Tools & Insights division, in this BoP Summit 2013 interview.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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‘I Don’t Wish I Had AIDS’: If only diabetics worldwide could feel the same way
In a 2012 study, diabetic patients were consistently heard "wishing they had AIDS." That’s because, in many parts of the world, diabetes is a death sentence. However, with greater access to information and affordable care, it doesn’t have to be.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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