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Sankalp Forum Awards High-Impact BoP Enterprises
Sankalp (English translation: Pledge or Determination) is a South Asia Social Enterprise and Investment Forum with the primary goal of bringing together various stakeholders sharing a common conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line returns (financial, social and...
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CARE: Making Markets Work for the Poor
I recently had the chance to work on a case study with Late Lawson, Director of Economic Development for CARE, and Professor Ted London at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The case study centers on CARE considering how to best incorporate an explicit market-based...
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Job: Community Manager, Inveneo
Position: Community Manager Location: Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA Organization: Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT into the hands of organizations and people who need them most: those in remote and rural communities in the developing...
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The Effects of Violence at the Base of the Pyramid
As it should be clear by now to our frequent and not so frequent readers, the BoP is potentially a huge market. Within this potential market there are different segments depending on who products are?directed to, which needs?they address, or what income and educational levels the target...
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President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid
Not much has been written here on NextBillion.net about the election of Barack Obama to the American Presidency, as our news scope centers on base of the pyramid approaches to development in developing countries. However, I felt compelled to link the two together as we near Inauguration day...
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Two Microfinance Conferences Set to Take Place in Colombia this Year
The major players of the Microfinance industry will convene in Colombia this year, not once but twice. Two major venues are set to take place in the country quite soon. The first is the Microfinance?as a Tool?for?Peace Building conference, scheduled for next week in Cali and organized by...
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Engineers for Social Impact Fellowships
Attention Indian engineering undergrads: the Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) fellowship program has opened its annual recruitment process.? E4SI matches the most talented undergraduate students from fifteen elite Indian engineering schools with partner social enterprises that focus on...
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Guest Post: Cornell Students Working with Natural Food Products Business in Botswana
We received the following story via e-mail from guest blogger Gretchen Ruethling, a first year Master of Public Administration student focusing on international development at Cornell University. She has worked as a journalist and for an environmental organization and an agricultural research...
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