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Introducing Staff Writer David Lehr
The NextBillion.net team is proud to introduce our newest member: Staff Writer David Lehr. David has over fifteen years of experience in international business and development focused primarily on information communication technologies and job creation and is currently Senior Advisor, Social...
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New CGAP Study: Known Knowns And Known Unknowns About Branchless Banking
This weekend I had the chance to read CGAP?s new report about branchless banking. The report is a short summary about the current state of the branchless banking market. To those readers who do not know anything of the market it is an easy introduction. To those readers who have been...
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Telling Stories Over Stats: The S.E.VEN Film Competition
Stephen J. Gould once called humans “the primates who tell stories.” Stories are part of how we transfer culture, they are a device through which we shape our identity and relationship to the world - in the development community, they are a way to get people to act. Stories help...
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NextBillion’s Grace Augustine to Join Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog
I received an e-mail today from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, one of my favorite journals in the ’third sector’ space. The e-mail was to inform subscribers that SSIR has added 5 new writers to its influential Opinion Blog - including NextBillion.net’s very own Grace...
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NextBillion Announces Partnership With Acumen Fund
By Derek Newberry and Rob Katz NextBillion.net is happy to announce that, as of today, the site will be co-owned and co-managed by World Resources Institute and its newest partner, Acumen Fund. Since NextBillion.net’s launch in 2005, we have admired Acumen Fund’s innovative approach...
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Guest Post: What It Means to be Patient – Drip Irrigation in Pakistan’s Thar Desert
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from Harvard University. By Sasha Dichter Today, we...
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Guest Post: Finding Good Capitalists
Guest blogger Blair Miller is a Manager of Business Development at Acumen Fund. She has lived and worked in Senegal, South Korea, India, and El Salvador. Her pursuit of a literature degree the University of Virginia opened her mind to the importance of social change and her MBA from Michigan...
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Admin: Claiming NextBillion on Technorati
Dear Readers -If you see this post, please ignore it. We are working to make sure Technorati’s spiders see NextBillion.net properly, and this is a step in that process. Please excuse us as we air our laundry for all to see.Technorati...
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