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Improving Mother, Newborn Care is Aim of Jacaranda Health
Jacaranda Health is a maternal healthcare provider in Nairobi offering low income women high quality and affordable care. Founded by Nick Pearson, formerly of Acumen Fund, Jacaranda charges modest fees for services, like $1.25 per consultation and $8 for complete prenatal lab tests, with an aim to recoup costs and expand into a chain of clinics.
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Using Technology to Close the Gender Gap in Sierra Leone
Admire Bio has the reassured presence of a successful businesswoman, with an edge that reveals she is still hungry for more. Bio, 28, a single mother living with her parents, set up her first internet cafe in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, only a year ago. She has expanded with two more branches, and plans to go national if she can secure a bank loan. "My biggest motivation is...
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Friday Roundup ? 8/26/11: Profits Without Social Compromises
Much literal and virtual ink has been spilled this week on the blurring of lines between what constitutes nonprofit and for-profit in the social space. Of course many for-profits are, not by choice, shoehorned into nonprofit status. While nonprofits, witnessing the success and efficiency of profit seeking social ventures, have changed course.
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Unlikely Partnerships in the Social Sector
In the final part of my three-part interview with Ashoka’s Europe director Felix Oldenburg on how to create a large and sustained impact, he shared his thoughts on how to use existing, or some may call them "old" social structures -churches, welfare systems, and foundations, among others - to scale innovations.
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Accelerating BoP Development at the Intersection of CSR & Impact Investing
Innovation in base of the pyramid development flourishes at the intersections. Through a new collaborative model, the BoP management strategy and innovation firm, I-DEV International, focuses on the intersection of multi-national corporate interests and impact investing to build lasting, profitable, and high-impact SMEs at the BoP.
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The BOP and Corruption
Focus on BOP has strong economic potential and the power to alter markets; can the same theory have similar impact on economics of corruption?How do you define the BOP of corruption? The bottom end of this pyramid is made up of the ordinary middle class Indians. If 45 percent have paid a bribe then it has to be the great Indian middle class.
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NexThought Monday: Coming 2011, An India Without Corruption?
India is in uproar: a broad citizen movement lead by charismatic Anna Hazare pushes for strong anti-corruption measures. As shop-keepers post support messages and business school students skip meals, the country wonders: Will the measures, called ?Lokpal," pass? And will the curb the addiction of the country?s civil servants to quick money?
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Friday Roundup – 8/19/11: (With Video) Young World Inventors, Give ?Em A Hand
YoungWorldInventors.com is heading up a project to share stories of inventors working across multiple cultures, countries and languages, but all of whom share the same goal: Deploying technology to tackle social problems. Their stories can’t be told by themselves. They need an audience that will pony up for the price of, say, two movie tickets.
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