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Tech Awards 2010: Call for Nominations
The Tech Awards, a signature program of The Tech Museum, honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to address humanity’s most urgent challenges. Individuals as well as nonprofit and commercial organizations are eligible. Anyone may submit a nomination. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.
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Special Haiti Conference Added to Miami Social Enterprise Agenda
More on Haiti: A conference focused specifically on its reconstruction has been just announced by the organizers of the Miami Social Venture Capital/Social Enterprise Conference.
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Rebuilding Haiti: A Call to the Private Sector
The following article by Guest Writer Francisco Mej?a first appeard in MajorityMarkets.org. It’s part of a larger conversation that has started about the role of the private sector in Haiti’s reconstruction.
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Shea Yeleen: Promoting Market Access for African Shea Producers
I was reminded of the "theory of resonance" while talking to Rahama Wright, social entrepreneur and founder of Shea Yeleen International, a nonprofit working to help African women secure sustainable livelihoods via shea butter production.
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TechnoServe, Gates and Coke Link Up With Farmers
The Coca-Cola Company, nonprofit TechnoServe, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a partnership to enable over 50,000 small fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya to increase their productivity and double their incomes by 2014. This partnership will enable fruit farmers to participate in the Company’s supply chain for the first time.
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New Business Models for Sustainable Trading – Part 1
This post introduces a series focused on new business models for sustainable trading relationships. This series will discuss emerging enterprise solutions for small farmer inclusion, the corresponding impact on livelihoods of the rural poor, and the expanding market for sustainable business development for the public sector.
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One Man’s Crusade to Bring Riches to Rural Areas: Aavishkaar Social Venture Capital Fund
Aavishkaar CEO Vineet Rai has been raising the ’social entrepreneurship’ bar that will help create excellent, livelihood-generating rural enterprises, says Rajni Bakshi. Vineet Rai enjoys putting a twist in the buzz about social entrepreneurship. Since his work is one of the reasons for the excitement about such businesses, Rai is now a frequent speaker at public events. "I can’t wait for the ’social’ to be dropped" is usually his opening line. Rai’s tightr...
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Weekly Roundup: Stand with Haiti
Even for a blog that concerns itself with the everyday struggles of people in often desperate poverty, the situation in Port-au-Prince makes summarizing this week’s new research reports and events seem trivial. So: how to connect immediate humanitarian needs with the inclusive development Haiti has needed for so long?
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