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Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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SOCAP/Europe: Three Bridges to Capital
SOCAP/Europe featured a number of sessions revolving around the question of how to provide effective and efficient intermediation between investors and entrepreneurs. In "Three Bridges to Capital" three new infrastructure initiatives explained how they contribute to making impact investing more effective.
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Thinking About the Box – Not Just Outside of It
’Think outside of the box’ is one of the most clich?d expressions in English. But when’s the last time we actually defined the box? In her book, Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development, Cal-Berkeley Professor Ananya Roy not only defines the dominant boxes of development, but unpacks their paradoxes, hypocrisy, and absurdities.
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Ashoka, Bamboo Finance, Canopus Fdn. Launch Solar Energy Fund
Press Release: Three of the world’s leading organisations supporting social enterprise for development today announced that they are forming a partnership to launch the ’Oasis Energy - Solar for All Fund’, which will invest in companies bringing affordable solar power to markets that are without access to electricity. Ashoka , the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs, and the Canopus Foundation , whi...
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What Contests, Soda, and the Internet Have to do With Distributing Solar Power in Tanzania
Angaza, a runner up in the 2010 Harvard Social Enterprise Pitch for Change Competition, is an enterprise aiming to illuminate the world through modular solar home lighting and battery charging systems. Building on success and challenges of others, we studied a broad range of distribution models to avoid challenges that befall many social startups.
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Friday Roundup ? 5/27/11: Segmenting the Layers of the BOP, Watch Out SOCAP/E’s Live Stream
BoP critics argue that the definition of the Base of the Pyramid, especially in terms of income and/or buying power, is far too mailable. Is it $3-$5 a day, $1-$3 a day, or $1 or less a day? The answer is yes, according to the authors of ?Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid? appearing in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review.
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The Smallholder Farmer is the Base of the Pyramid
Agriculture presents the greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs in the developing world. When we talk about the base of the pyramid, much of the time we are actually talking about farmers. This post is dedicated to shedding light on the idea that poverty alleviation can be achieved with a stronger focus on integrated agribusiness development.
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SOCAP/Europe Preview: Beyond the Revolution in MENA
It is less than one week until SOCAP/Europe. David Munir Nabti, well-versed social entrepreneur from Lebanon, helps to set up the sessions addressing social entrepreneurship and social capital in the MENA region. He tells us about his work, shares his insights and gives us a sneak peek about what to expect at the conference
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