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Programa Vivenda: Housing, bonds and community
Programa Vivenda is taking a different approach to the market, and has managed to spot unexplored demand and positively impact many families in the process. The startup delivers better quality of life to the population through home renovations, kits and technical assistance aimed at improving comfort and covering the expenses of owning a house.
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Evidence Aid Wins the Unorthodox Prize
Following those efforts, we are very pleased to announce the winner of our second competition: Evidence Aid. Incubated as a project of The Cochrane Collaboration based in the U.K., Evidence Aid aims to bring rigorous evidence-based practices to the fields of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.
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MasterCard Promotes Financial Inclusion With Electronic Payments
While payment cards are often promoted as premium status-driven consumer products in the United States and Europe, in developing countries debit cards are proving valuable for delivering child benefits, pension payments and government salaries.
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Dump the Prizes?: Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
Last month, Kevin Starr’s provocative article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review spotlighted one of the oldest tools to source and support social innovations: prize competitions. As one of the early players in the field, the Changemakers team would like to add its two cents to the conversation.
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The Ripple Effect: Women Powering Work Through Microfinance And Entrepreneurship
When Roshaneh Zafar quit her job at the World Bank in 1995 to establish the Kashf Foundation, she carried a moment of inspiration and a powerful vision for the future with her. Ten years later, after plenty of opposition along the way, she has proven her critics wrong by showing that women-centered and women-managed microfinance programs in Pakistan can indeed flourish and succeed.
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Competition Launch: Women Powering Work in MENA
General Electric and Ashoka Changemakers has launched an online competition in search of innovative solutions that will advance economic opportunities for women in Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan. Women Powering Work: Innovations for Economic Equality is calling for initiatives that enable women to achieve economic equality, strengthen their families and communities, and benefit equitably from economic growth.
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How Brazil’s Tenda Atacado Group Serves The Base Of The Pyramid
The Tenda Atacado Group has 19 cash and carry stores in São Paulo, Brazil. By the end of 2013, it’s projecting revenues of US $900 million. Every month, it serves 1.3 million clients - 25 percent of whom are entrepreneurs - representing 50 percent of its sales. CEO Marco Gorini discusses Tenda Atacado’s strategy of focusing on formal and informal entrepreneurs at the BoP.
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Microinsurance: Can the Cinderella of Financial Inclusion Join the Global Ball?
The global financial inclusion agenda continues to place insurance at the back of the queue when it comes to funding and broader financial inclusion strategies.
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