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Think Globally, Innovate Locally: If you’re trying to serve individual customers, you can’t be a plane ride away, says Accion Venture Lab’s Paul Breloff
Here’s a common quote among entrepreneurs: “We’re focused on the BoP in [pick an emerging market] – but our senior management team is based in [some fully emerged market].” But as Accion Venture Lab’s Paul Breloff argues, if you’re trying to serve individual customers, you’ve got to immerse yourself in the countless intangibles that make up their daily lives.
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Engaging Customers and Clients in Social Change
“Engaging Customers and Clients in Social Change” was the theme for the 12th annual Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia University’s Business school earlier this month. The premise took on the practical, and therefore often overlooked, side of social entrepreneurship. While social entrepreneurs may have fantastic visions for transforming the world, they can’t accomplish much without energizing and motivating those on the receiving end.
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Micro-Lending Empowers Entrepreneurs Around The World
Founded in 2005 by Matt Flannery, Jessica Jackley, and Premal Shah, Kiva has grown from lending $500,000 in its first year to lending over $1.5 million per week in 2012.
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Child & Youth (Micro)Finance
The Child and Youth Finance global movement was launched in 2012 as a way to empower, include and educate children and youth all over the world.
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Friction and Flow: How innovation can put relevance back into formal savings
Do you realize to what extent formal savings services are irrelevant to many of the world’s poor?Ignacio Mas explores the challenges of making savings products both relevant and simple, in a thought-provoking addition to NextBillion Financial Innovation’s opening series.
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First Microfinance Institutions in Latin America Certified for Strong Client Protection Practices
The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate strong client protection practices across the microfinance industry, announced the first three microfinance institutions in Latin America to become Client Protection Certified.
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Small loans, big smiles in Mexico’s Oaxaca
A microfinance nonprofit offers tours to meet Mexican women in their small businesses — and your tour dollars go to new loans.
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First-Ever Kiva U Summit Convenes Student Leaders and Educators Around Financial Inclusion
More than 150 college and high school student leaders and educators from around the world with an interest in critical issues around financial inclusion gathered for the first-ever Kiva U Summit.
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