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Distribution, the Key to Unlocking the Development Toolbox: D-Prize offers $20,000 awards for start-ups with innovative distribution models across sectors
A new organization, D-Prize, believes entrepreneurs can scale up access to poverty solutions, and is backing the belief with $200,000 in available seed capital. Do you have an idea for a new distribution-focused venture? Submit your concept for a new venture that solves distribution challenges, and potentially win an award up to $20,000 to launch a pilot.
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Visualizing Financial Inclusion (and Shaping It)
With the year 2020 as the target, the Center for Financial Inclusion, along with Citi and Visa, are building a campaign leading up to the Financial Inclusion 2020 conference, set for Oct. 28-30 in London. Although the conference itself is invitation-only given the limited capacity and massive interest, this is a big tent effort.
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IFC, Others Invest $20m In Ghanaian Microfinance Bank
The IFC, the German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG), and the African Capitalisation Fund (ACF) have together invested about GH¢46 million ($20 million) into one of Ghana’s leading microfinance banks, UT Bank.
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Conscious Business, Crowdfunding and Social Impact Investing
Crowdfunding thought leader Rose Spinelli and Richard Branson Award Winner Shayan Nahrvar, CEO of Raise5.com, were ready to talk about funding in the new capitalism at the Conscious Business Network last week.
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The Globalization of Giving
When Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) was first conceived in Silicon Valley a decade ago, newly wealthy, problem-focused entrepreneurs had seized the opportunity to use their knowledge, networks, and finances to advance the social good globally.
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Grassroot-level innovations may hold the key to global challenges
Development professionals should help spread the ideas that are effective in solving problems but often remain in obscurity.
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A Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
For those who have been working in the field of social entrepreneurship for a decade or more, as we have at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2013 is starting to feel like a watershed year.
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AfDB Provides $38m To Aid Entrepreneurship, Job Creation In Rwanda
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is contributing $38 million to boost entrepreneurship and job creation in Rwanda.
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