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Weekly Roundup (2-23-13): : Just ‘showing up’ – that’s not enough for these entrepreneurs
Woody Allen once famously said that “90 percent of life is just showing up.”That might apply for some professions (mine included, perhaps), but I don’t think the comic filmmaker had entrepreneurs in mind when he coined it. For those with the drive to start a business, particularly a socially inclined one, I’d say only 30 percent of their success is merely showing up – with a basic business plan in hand, that is.
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Lessons of Empowerment: Drishtee’s is building new business networks in rural India
Drishtee has provided education, health, household products and banking services to thousands of rural villages over the course of the last 13 years. Kunal Rajpal, of Acumen Fund - a Drishtee investor - reflects on how the enterprise is helping to spawn new businesses.
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Africa: Global Fund News Flash – Issue 14
The Global Fund plans to launch its new funding model in the coming days.
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AKF USA Makes its First Mission-Related Investment in Afghanistan
Mohd Nabi Allah Yar runs a yarn-producing business in Afghanistan. He employs 80 local women and supports many Afghan shepherds by purchasing their wool. The impact of his business on the shepherds, his employees, and his customers would not have been possible without his first loan, which he received from the First MicroFinance Bank of Afghanistan (FMFB-A) through its Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) portfolio.
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FEATURED EVENT: IMN’s Impact Investing Summit: March 14-15, Huntington Beach, California
IMN is hosting the inaugural Impact Investing Summit, which will take place on March 14-15, 2013, in Huntington Beach, CA. The conference will bring together experts across the impact investing arena to discuss the key topics of interest with their industry peers.
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Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty
In his State of the Union address President Barack Obama placed a spotlight on global poverty and the 1.2 billion people on the planet who stay alive on around $1 per day.
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Why Social Enterprise Attracts Women
From Rwanda to Shanghai, women are setting up new businesses with social and environmental change at their heart. Charlotte Sankey asks what’s driving them.
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