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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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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 1: Managing Impact for the Long Term
At SOCAP 2013, reaching the “tipping point” of impact investment has emerged as a central pillar of creating systemic and truly transformative change. SOCAP has assembled a group of prominent panelists to kick off the process of mapping the future of impact investment. Here’s what happened in the opening plenary session: “Managing Impact for the Long Term.”
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Moving from the What to the How of BoPBiz
The massive interest and the multi-sectorial participation in the BASE II Forum International indicate that the field of base of the pyramid business models has matured. They indicate that the debate has reached another level where the questions and issues turn around the how, not the what.
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Calvert Foundation Appoints Jennifer Pryce President and CEO
Calvert Foundation’s Board of Directors announced today that Chief Strategy Officer Jennifer Pryce will be the organization’s new President and CEO upon the departure of Lisa Hall, who is leaving Calvert Foundation to join Anthos Asset Management in the newly created position of Managing Director of Impact Investing. While Ms. Pryce will assume the role of President and CEO effective immediately, Ms. Hall will stay on as Strategic Advisor through mid-October.
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