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Spotlight on Microfranchising: A Look Into the Future of Social Enterprise
In the previous posts we introduced the iuMAP and discussed the challenges of scaling. For the next few weeks we will focus on microfranchising because it is a model used increasingly by social enterprises as they scale.
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Grassroots Business Fund Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
The Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) recently celebrated its second anniversary in a congratulatory mood. It has committed has committed $8M in equity, quasi-equity, debt, grant financing and technical assistance in its 25 investments covering 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and reaching almost half a million direct beneficiaries.
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Introducing iuMAP, Part 2 – Bottleneck: Why is It So Hard to Scale What Works?
This post is part of a series that introduces iuMAP, a web-based social enterprise directory developed byAyllu and launched in media partnership with NextBillion. The purpose of the series is gathering feedback from the NextBillion community as the map unfolds, and share some of the information available on the tool.
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Frontier Investments: Focused on Mobile Banking, Microinsurance & Housing
ACCION International’s Frontier Investments Group is a double bottom line, venture equity fund focused on catalyzing a new approach to microfinance. It invests in new technologies and disruptive business models that can powerfully enhance the way financial services are delivered to the poor. Building upon microfinance’s success in "banking the unb...
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Dr. Sebisaho: One Man and an Island
Having grown up vacillating between the Congo and Rwanda (and having completed his medical training in the latter), Dr. Sebisaho has obtained a pulse on the medical needs of the under-served Island of Idjwi as well as an acute understanding of the cultural and economic subtleties critical in treating its ails.
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Design for the Other 90%: Don’t Miss While It’s In DC
If you’re in Washington, there’s a couple of events you should surely not miss: the event later this week at SAIS examining SME finance in Africa, and the Design for the Other 90% Exhibition that is currently at the National Geographic Museum. I went this weekend, and it’s fantastic.
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SEED Awards 2010: Now Open
From initiatives that transform kerosene lamps into solar powered lanterns in Bangladesh, to ventures that combine biogas and water treatment in Nigeria, the SEED Awards recognize entrepreneurial ventures that generate environmental, social and economic benefits?at the local level contributing to sustainable development.
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Hot Opportunities – Career Center Roundup
There have been a slew of exciting job postings in the past couple weeks with organizations working literally around the world, so we wanted to take a minute out of our regular blog schedule to highlight a few:
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