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Women Deliver Conference 2013: A holistic approach to reaching scale
For the social enterprise field, there are critical insights to be gleaned from the international development space as well. Interventions focused on the “whole girl,” or supporting every piece of her life (health, education, legal rights, community awareness), seem to work better than interventions only focused on one isolated need area. Interestingly, most of the winning social enterprises at of the Social Enterprise Challenge at the Women Deliver Conference aligned with this thinking, largely not being product- or invention- based, but rather taking more holistic approaches.
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You’re on the A-List to Join The B Team: Your invitation to the June 13 event is here
In October 2012, former Puma CEO Jochen Zeitz and Sir Richard Branson launched The B Team “to shift the focus of business from just financial gains towards environmental and social gains as well. ... Plan A—where companies have been driven by the profit motive alone—is no longer acceptable." On Thursday, you’re invited to join them as they shape the agenda.
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Global Movement of the Vulnerable Class, and What it Means for Financial Inclusion
In 2010, the bottom 40 percent of the populations, in low and middle-income economies constituted a market of $3 trillion. By the end of the decade, the real spending power of this market will nearly double, to $5.8 trillion. A new report from the Center for Financial Inclusion, "Growing Income, Growing Inclusion,” charts an encouraging course.
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Understanding What Makes Impact Accelerators … Accelerate : New ANDE/Village Capital report
Over the past year, Village Capital and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) have been working together to learn what’s working. We have surveyed more than 50 self-identified “impact accelerators” — ventures looking to provide education, training, capital, and assistance to early-stage impact enterprises, and this week, we’re releasing what we’re learning.
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The Three ‘Tyrannies’ Shaping BoP Business Today: Hart details the evolution of the sector at the II Base Forum
As a keynote speaker at the IDB’s BASE II Forum International Thursday in Medellin, Colombia, Stuart Hart recognized the important moment that BoP strategies and practices are having worldwide. He pointed to three "tyrannies" that are holding back the business movement.
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Women Deliver Conference 2013: Why it pays to invest in women
In the biggest conference this decade focusing on girls’ and women’s health and rights, Women Deliver brought together more than 4,500 leaders and advocates -representing over 2,200 organizations and 149 countries – in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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The Profit vs. Nonprofit Tug of War: From investors to employees, why my social business did a 180
After operating as a non-profit for a year and a half, I decided to flip BLISS to a for-profit. As a nonprofit, we were attracting the wrong people and the wrong money. This is something I had feared, but when it started coming true, it hurt our progress more than I could have imagined. I learned this the hard way, but having a purpose other than profit, such as creating social impact, is not sufficient reason to be a non-profit.
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Changing lives, a hen at a time
Helping hand: Three years ago, four campus students started a revolutionary project that has begun to alleviate poverty in rural areasnyan communities of giving visitors a hen.
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