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Playing Politics: Women (Truly) Empowering Women in Bangladesh
As with so many other causes, women’s empowerment, can always be trumped by politics. But in 2001, 24 women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh came together to change those politics. At the helm was Selima Ahmad, president of the Bangladesh Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI). By 2010, BWCCI counted 2,500 women-owned businesses as members.
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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem
When the New York Times printed " Hands Off Our Houses ," an op-ed about our idea for a $300 House for the poor, we were both delighted and dismayed - delighted because the $300 House was being discussed, and dismayed because authors Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, co-founders of the Institute of Urbanology , didn’t seemed to have read the series of blog posts about our id...
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Social Entrepreneurs, Co-Designers of the Investment Blueprint
Social entrepreneurs need to be more proactive in deal negotiation, offering new insights that can help potential investors better understand the particular features of a social enterprise. In short, social entrepreneurs should position themselves as "co-designers" of the investment. That’s the story of Gustavo Gennuso and Equitas Ventures
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NexThought Monday: Building a Better Value Pump
Social entrepreneurship should not just be about creating products and services that offer a value proposition to the poor. Social entrepreneurs should be focused on enhancing the poor?s value proposition to society. There are two ways do accomplish this: making the poor more useful to society or by reducing the costs faced by the poor.
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Friday Roundup – 6/3/2011: Was Europe ready for SOCAP? Yes!
Eight months ago, just after the announcement of SOCAP coming to Europe, Jonathan Jenkins asked: ?Is Europe ready for SOCAP? himself giving a hesitant ?Maybe not!?- answer. Now we all know better: ?Yes, it was? as Jenkins tweeted on the last day of the conference, which exposed a slowly, but surely, maturing sector.
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Hands Off Our Houses
Mumbai, India: LAST summer, a business professor and a marketing consultant wrote on The Harvard Business Review’s Web site about their idea for a $300 house . According to the writers, and the many people who have enthusiastically responded since, such a house could improve the lives of millions of urban poor around the world. And with a $424 billion market for cheap...
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IDB Launches First of its Kind BoP LA, Caribbean Forum
With millions in new projects and large multinationals like PepsiCo and CMEX launching new BoP ventures and markets quickly maturing, Latin America is off and running. The Inter-American Development Bank decided the time was right to host the first forum on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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SOCAP/Europe: Marketplaces Start to Matter
It is an exciting time that requires building the right infrastructure to take impact investing to scale. Marketplaces are key for investors and enterprises to meet as well as to enable efficient capital allocation to the most effective social enterprises.
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