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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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10 Ways to Improve Savings Products for the Ultra-Poor
The poor need access to financial services to create diversified and reliable sources of livelihood, which help them move out of poverty. As an industry, microfinance, however, has found it difficult to reach the very poorest. The Livelihood Pathways for the Poorest project, jointly implemented in Gaya District, Bihar, India by the Grameen Foundation and the Livelihood School, aimed to pilot a program that could fill the wide gap in services to the ultra-poor.
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The New Cities Summit: Putting the ‘human’ back into our discussions on the 21st century city
A year has flown by since our inaugural global summit on the future of cities, the New Cities Summit, which we held in May 2012 in Paris. Since then, the connections we’d hoped to foster by inviting such a wide set of prominent actors from all aspects of urban life flourished in ways we could not have predicted – in unexpected combinations and places. This year, we’re hosting our summit in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Dasra philanthropy foundation grants $800,000 award to six organizations
Strategic philanthropy foundation, Dasra, has announced the $800,000 Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF) grant award to six organizations building the ecosystem for impact investing in India.
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How an iPad in a corner store can spell success in Mexico
On the outskirts of Mexico City, just past the dusty plateau of a defunct landfill, the cinder block houses of Chimalhuacán crowd a hillside. It’s a city beyond a city, made up of nearly 1 million residents including surrounding areas, yet it lacks many of services and stores one might expect of a city – like banks.
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Social media: five lessons for social entrepreneurs
Twitter and Facebook are valuable tools for social enterprises – but there are a number of pitfalls you should avoid
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