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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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NexThought Monday: There’s a First Time for Everything: Acumen and Dow’s Technical Assistance Initiative brings together MNCs, startups
On May 14-16, Acumen held its first summit of social enterprises and global corporations to explore opportunities for collaboration aimed at expanding access to critical goods and services for poor communities in East and West Africa. The event was the formal kick-off of the Technical Assistance (TA) Initiative, a partnership between Acumen and Dow launched as a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative.
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Weekly Roundup (6/1/13): NB’s Case Writing Competition Returns, Why SOCAP13 Needs Your Vote
The 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition is back. We hope to find, reward, and publish the best business cases exploring social enterprise and market-harnessing solutions to poverty again in 2014.
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The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty
Proof that giving cash to poor people, no strings attached, is an amazingly powerful tool for boosting incomes and promoting development.
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