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10 Things I Learned At Skoll World Forum 2013
The 10th annual Skoll World Forum, which brought together several hundred of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs to Oxford, wrapped up last week.
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Idb Base Forum: Sharpening Focus On Bop: An Interview With Omj’s Luiz Ros on the Second International Forum in June
OMJ’s Luiz Ros says June’s second annual BASE Forum Colombia will attract more than 1,000 attendees. The focus will be on cutting edge information and new models, bringing together civil society, government, private sector to collaborate and come up with a value proposition for the base of the pyramid in the region.
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Why Reinvent the Wheel?: New BIF report looks at adapting existing infrastructure for distribution to the BoP
For those of us at Business Innovation Facility working directly with the companies managing these problems, it’s clear that most cookie-cutter solutions to distribution do not work. In the latest of our ‘Inside Inclusive Business’ series, BIF goes beyond theoretical solutions and focuses on some of the more innovative channel strategies we discovered during our engagement with companies.
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6 reasons companies fail to reach the bottom of the pyramid
It is no secret that, when it comes to commercial ventures at the base of the pyramid, our greatest hopes and expectations have been placed on the potential of multinational corporations to mitigate poverty.
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Applications Open for Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013”
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, an Indian nonprofit, have announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2013 Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.”
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Blue Collar, Inc
Krishna Kumar used to spend his days listlessly gathering scrap in garbage dumps across Motihari in Bihar.
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Can Firms Aim to Do Good if It Hurts Profit?
Blake Jones of Boulder, Colo., is one of the many modern entrepreneurs who say their goals extend beyond increasing the bottom line to such pursuits as reducing child poverty or protecting the environment. But he worries that embracing a mission other than maximizing profits could open the door to shareholder lawsuits because of decades-old corporate governance laws.A co-founder and chief executive of Namaste Solar, Mr. Jones says his eight-year-old company gives 20% of its annual after-tax profits to local projects, such as a nearby children's museum and a bicycle-recycling program. It also offers up to $30,000 in solar-system installation grants to schools and other nonprofits. But "according to state law," he says, "we don't have any legal protection for doing business the way we do" even though such practices attract customers who also "want to do good."
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Micro loans reverse poverty cycle
With an average loan of about $150, more than two million families in India, Indonesia, The Philippines, China and Ghana are leaving poverty behind thanks to Opportunity International Australia.
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