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Good News for Mel Gibson, and Education
Young adults like "Mel Gibson," a Malawi resident with a creative pseudonym, have the drive to expand their education, but rarely the financial resources. This Q&A with student microloan-focused Vittana examines the group’s expansion into Africa, reactions to Kiva entering the student loan space, and how the sector is helping students like Mel.
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Innovative Mobile Phone Strategies in the Developing World
At the 2010 Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School, five innovators discussed their work and the prospects of mobile applications for the Base of the Pyramid.
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Bob Annibale: ?Banker to the Banker of the Poor?
Citi’s name is all over the highlight reel of microfinance’s growth in the last decade by "mainstreaming microfinance" into its global operations. More recently, Citi has been developing non-credit products, including microinsurance and savings plans for unbanked customers, according to Bob Annibale, Global Director of Citi Microfinance
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Book Your Calendar for NSEF ’Confluence’
National Student Entrepreneurship Forum is hosting its annual meeting, "Confluence," on Oct. 23 and features an impressive speaker line up from some of the top organizations in this sector.
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What Khosla’s New Fund Says About the BoP Evolution
Billionaire Vinod Khosla made bucketloads of money on the SKS IPO. Rather than take his money and exit, his new fund will recycle the initial social investment capital into a new, high-risk sector: firms serving the base of the pyramid. What does this tell us about the evolution of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) sector?
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Power to the People Part II: Assessing Clean Energy Customers
Dirty cookstoves, used by as many as 3 billion people globally, are responsible for the deaths of 1.6 to 1.9 million each year, with women and children most affected. These are big numbers ? and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has set out to address a big problem.
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Michigan’s Ross Business School Launches Social Venture Fund
Action-based initiative aligns with new courses to place impact investing at the forefront of entrepreneurial education. Ann Arbor, Mich. — Marshalling an increasing student interest in the social-impact investment space, the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Ross School of Business recently launched the Social Venture Fund (...
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SOCAP10: Learning for Social Impact
From SOCAP10, a Q&A with Laura Callanan, who leads McKinsey & Co.’s research on social impact assessment and social investing. Laura identifies three key trends that give her hope that social impact assessment is moving in the right direction.
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