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A Microlender Backs Startups to Bring More Than Loans to the Poor
Microlending has lost a lot of its shine in the seven years since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for delivering small loans to help poor women start businesses.
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Ramadorai new chairman of NSDC
S. Ramadorai took over the post from M.V. Subbiah, who was heading NSDC since 2008.
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What is the best way of innovating for social change?
There are many different ways – organisationally speaking – that you can save the world.
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Cheering social entrepreneurship: How Lok Capital did it
Investing in a social enterprise in India has become quite the in-thing and the definition of who is a social entrepreneur seems to be changing as well.
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Weekly Roundup – 5/4/13 : The stain of trade in Bangladesh
As the death toll in Bangladesh surpasses 500 people in the collapsed Rana Plaza that housed five garment factories employing more than 3,000 workers, new urgency has taken over old debates about the real cost of cheap garments and the role of globalization.
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Banishing poverty through banking
Access to financial services could pull millions of people out of poverty, so where does microfinance fit in?
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SJF Ventures Raises $90MM Third Fund, Tripling Size of Previous Fund
SJF Ventures conducted the final closing on its third fund with more than $90MM in capital commitments, tripling the size of the previous $28MM second fund.
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Unlikely Takeover: A Third Way to Scale Social Enterprise
When we try to scale social enterprise, we usually try one of two paths: growing small organizations or spreading ideas across a range of organizations to scale impact.
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