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Healthcare Series: Combining Facilities and Mobile Innovations to Deliver Better Care
Over the past year, I have become increasingly familiar with new mobile health tools that are often not a healthcare delivery system in and of itself, but a driver within that system - increasing the knowledge, efficiency, evidence-base, user experience, and accessibility.
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Advancing Healthcare: Reaching Into Rural Pockets With A Sustainable Model
In much of the developing world, the poor lack access to adequate health care and are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of illness. To explore this situation, new models for health care provision are being innovated. This post explores opportunities for private health care initiatives to address unmet needs in remote and rural India.
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Friday Roundup ? 2/18/11: A Special Offer for NB Readers from SOCAP/Europe
NextBillion is a proud media partner for SOCAP/Europe set for May 30-June 1. And this week Kevin Jones, a principal at Good Capital and co-founder of SOCAP, lets us know about a special early bird registration available for the NextBillion Network (AKA: You).
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Through SGBs, Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Developing World
Small and growing businesses (SGBs) are key to long-term poverty eradication. More and more investors are realizing that they can reap financial rewards as well as social and environmental impacts by investing in them. Our upcoming Impact Report will share research that demonstrates that in 2010 alone, 31 new funds targeting SGBs were launched.
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Impact Investment Forum Series: The Dilemmas of Inclusive Business Investments
What happens in a scenario of economic recession, when investors leave to find safer securities and venture capital funds become scarce? In this scenario, unemployment rises, along with the need for entrepreneurship, and the gap between the rich and poor grows. This is when the social impact of inclusive businesses is even more critical.
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Finding a Match for Social Impact
ProInspire, an organization building the next generation of leaders for the nonprofit sector. Its flagship program, the Inspire Fellowship, recruits business professionals with 2-5 years of experience and matches them with enterprises focused on social impact. The organization is now seeking applications for its 2011 Inspire Fellowship.
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WDI Hosting Global Summit on Educating Entrepreneurs
The intersection of international development, government agencies, microlenders and academics is an extremely crowded one. The William Davidson Institute hopes to help direct some of that traffic by convening the Global Summit on Educating Entrepreneurs, bringing together developers of many stripes to coordinate with and learn from one another.
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Now More than Ever: The Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship Seeks Applications
The Ariane de Rothchild Fellowship is an exciting and rare opportunity for Muslims and Jews from the US, UK and France who have a common interest to create "a new brand of both dialogue and social entrepreneurship that allows for sustainable business models to have far reaching impact."
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