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Village Capital: Lessons Learned from our First 15 Programs: And announcing our 16th and 17th
Village Capital operates accelerator programs worldwide for early-stage enterprises serving the BoP. In our three-month programs, groups of 10-20 entrepreneurs build world-changing innovations in education, health, financial services, energy, and more. In March, we’ll be wrapping up our 15th program, and we’d like to share a few of our key learnings about the seed-stage/accelerator space.
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- Social Enterprise
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Where are the poor? : Lessons to share from BRAC’s poverty ‘graduation program’
In the countries that have some incarnation of the “graduation program” targeting the ultra-poor that BRAC began first experimenting with in the 1990s, communities themselves are also grappling with the question: Where are the poor? It’s a question that large scale aid agencies, impact investors, social enterprises, multinational companies and others ask on a regular basis. So, we thought those stakeholders and others would benefit from learning a bit more about our process.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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$200,000 for BoP Health Care Innovators : A big opportunity for social enterprises
The USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project has announced the launch of the Health Enterprise Fund, a challenge fund designed to address the lack of available capital for health enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa. This support will include technical assistance and grant funding of up to $200,000. In this post, Colm Fay of the SHOPS project explains the fund and how to apply.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Fear Factor: Should we scare people into healthy behavior?
Fear-based marketing is a controversial topic - especially when graphic images are involved. Yet many health care organizations and advocates have used it to attract attention and change health behaviors. But is graphic fear-based marketing effective - and ethical? And should it be put to use more in BoP communities?
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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From Darth Vader to Social Innovator: SalaUno’s formula for success
With influences ranging from Aravind Eye Care to low-cost airlines, SalaUno has established itself as one of the most innovative social enterprises in Latin America. Specializing in low-cost cataract surgery and other vision care, it achieved profitability within two months of opening, and its founders have been hailed as some of the region’s top entrepreneurs. In this interview, SalaUno co-founder Javier Okhuysen explains how they did it.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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All About India : A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 4)
India’s health care system is at a crossroads. Its population is getting older, and age and lifestyle-related diseases are on the rise. Yet its health care system is ill-equipped to respond. This fourth and final post in our series on India provides an overview of the country’s biggest health care challenges, and nine solutions for solving them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- public health
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400 Million Reasons for Impact Investing in China : A first-of-its-kind study dispels misperceptions and reveals potential
"Creating the Chinese Dream," which to our knowledge, is the first English-language report on impact investing in China. What makes this report unique is that it serves as a practitioner’s guide to impact investing in China’s green SMEs.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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All About India: A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 3)
Zeena Johar is the president and founding member of IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health, and CEO of SughaVazhvu Healthcare. In this Q&A, the third in our series on Indian health care, she provides tips for dealing with quacks, creating a market for primary care, and developing an effective business model.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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