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Viewpoint: It’s Time That For-Profits Start Learning From Nonprofits: Here’s How
As cofounder of a firm that helps nonprofits hire leaders, I’m frequently asked for advice on how someone with a strong private-sector track record can make a move to more mission-driven work. These "sector switchers" are frequently armed with somewhat tone-deaf pitches about how they’re ready to "give back," both by doing socially focused work and by teaching the nonprofit sector how to operate more like the private sector. To those of us who’ve been working with nonprofits for years, however, that pitch is alienating.
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Almost Every Household in India Has a Bank Account, Says Labour Bureau
Almost every household in the country is a part of the banking system, mainly due to government’s financial inclusion plans, the latest Labour Bureau data showed.
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A Global Push for Youth Financial Inclusion Gains Steam—and Some Big Backers
The global dialogue about the importance of bringing children and young people in financial inclusion landscape has grown over the past few years.
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Tanzanian microinsurance startup Jamii prepares to expand across Africa
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii will be expanding across Africa, on the back of grant money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Who Pays and What Works? The Changing Market of Inclusive Business Development Services
There are more development services for inclusive businesses than ever before. But how effective are they and what still needs to be done to improve the market? The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business and the Inclusive Business Accelerator have been exploring these questions and more in a new series.
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Tanzanian Micro-Insurance Startup Jamii Prepares for Expansion
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii is heading to the global final of the Seedstars World competition next year. But the trip to Switzerland is just one part of an international agenda that will see the startup launch across Africa.
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Microfinance Sees Huge Opportunity Following Banks’ Interest Rates Cap in Kenya
Micro Finance Banks see a huge opportunity for growth as bankers implement the new banking law capping Interest Rates at 4 per cent above the Central Banks Rate.
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Weekly Roundup: Ending Disease, Growing Coffee and (Still) Distrusting Bankers
In our Weekly Roundup, we suggest that despite what you might see on Facebook, finding cures in laboratories is the easy part of healing the planet; we celebrate the buzz around relationship coffee; and we give readers one more reason to distrust bankers (and we're not even talking about Wells Fargo).
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