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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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Friday Roundup – 10/8/10: Social Enterprise and a $100 Million Gift
This year’s Social Enterprise Conference happens on a special week for Columbia University and its Business School in particular. One of its distinguished alumns, Mr. Henry Kravis, announced a pledge of US$100 million to help the school complete its expansion projects in the next several years.
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The Hoop Fund: Connecting BoP Producers with New Markets, Finance
The Hoop has been called the Kiva for fair trade, as it uses the basic platform of micro-lending from individuals to channel finance to emerging market cooperatives. However, according to the Hoop CEO Patrick Donohue, the Hoop?s point of differentiation is on the consumer experience it provides.
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Rounding Up: Metrics Discussions from Many Sources
A look at all metrics-related topics this month: ANDE Annual Conference, IRIS 2.0, BoP Impact Assessment Workshop, and of course, SoCap
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NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition: Call for Entries
NextBillion.net is proud to launch its second-annual academic business case competition, NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition. Once again, we seek to find the very best business cases describing organizations that use market-based approaches to economic or social development, social ventures. Read on to find out how to apply and get started.
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