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NextThought Monday: Social Enterprise on the Cover of the Economist
No, not this week and probably not next week either. But in five years, it’s going to happen. The Economist, however, did recently run an article titled: "Companies Aren’t Charities," which argues that the role of a company in developing economies should be confined to pursuing profit while abiding by the rules and a solid moral compass.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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A New Generation of Leaders: The Acumen Fund Fellowship
How would you like to spend one year working with a company focused on serving the poor in a developing country, either helping to set a strategy or improve operations? Then now is the time to apply for the Acumen Fund Fellowship.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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NextThought Monday: Trading on the Social Entrepreneur Asset Class Idea
Creating an asset class for social entrepreneurship not only engenders an aura of solid ground for investors, both institutional and private, it could formally connect social entrepreneurs with a far wider scope of capital markets. Though not necessarily a new idea, it would seem many minds are acquiescing around the concept.
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- Social Enterprise
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Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement
Last week, the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School presented a panel called Connecting the Dots through Social Impact Measurement, joining the ongoing conversation that has surfaced in recent conferences such as SOCAP10 and ANDE.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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The “Gandhi Approach” to Better Governance
Microcredit, formal and informal loans from friends or family can get a social enterprise only so far. Larger equity investments can help a micro-enterprises over the hump and into real SME scale. This article summarizes some governance principles indispensable at this stage.
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- Social Enterprise
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Acara Challenge 2010: Eight Social Business Ideas
From clean water delivery near Vellore to chromium recovery in the tanneries of Tamil Nadu to clean-gas cooked food tiffin services in Delhi, the finalist teams of the Acara Challenge 2010 have some great ideas to change the world.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- clean cooking
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Voices From the Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary
The opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum had numerous themes and Twitter-perfect quotes, but to me one of the most important threads that ran through the evening was the importance of giving individuals a voice to help themselves out of conflict, abject poverty, and the effects of natural disaster.
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- Social Enterprise
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Social Business Corporations
Two weeks ago, there was a government assembly and the Prime Minister presented new projects for the government. As Kazakhstan Today reports, Social Business Corporations were on the list. ?Sara Arka? will be the first, to be established in Karaganda (because the akim there was on the ball, they say). By the end of the year, six more will be established in the regions. These corporations were first brought up in the President?s Annual Message to the People in February of 2006:
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- Social Enterprise