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Indonesian Sustainable Village Project Wins Grand Prize at Social Enterprise Forum in Taiwan
The unique approach of addressing civil society issues with design ingenuity won an Indonesian social enterprise organization the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Asia Pacific Social Enterprise Summit (APSES) in Kaohsiung.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Asia Pacific
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A Kenyan-based Social Enterprise, Yusudi, Raises $250K in Grant Capital
The program seeks out learners with innovative ideas between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, offering the opportunity to join online training on career-start or entrepreneurship depending on their interests.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Companies Trying to Do Good Face Stiff Competition – From Each Other
With more than 8,000 applicants to Chivas Ventures from around the world, it was fiercely competitive to win a place, said Michal Matus - whose Slovakian social enterprise, Save the Bees, sells technology to beekeepers so they can monitor their hives
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- Entrepreneurship
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Press Release: OPIC Signs Agreement With Banco Regional to Support Women-Owned, Small and Medium Businesses in Paraguay
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today recognized a $138 million commitment to Banco Regional to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially women-owned SMEs, in Paraguay. Citibank will provide an additional $11.5 million to Banco Regional to support SMEs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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- Latin America
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- development finance, entrepreneurship, OPIC, SMEs, Women
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Unshackled Ventures Has $20m to Invest Exclusively in Immigrant Founders
Immigrants looking to start their own businesses face a huge barrier. Take Jyoti Bansal for example. He famously waited seven years before launching AppDynamics, a business that later sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion days before its initial public offering. Why? Because as an Indian immigrant with H-1B visa status, he could work for startups but wasn’t legally allowed to start his own.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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In a Kenyan Refugee Camp, Business Ideas but Little Access to Credit
Refugee camps like Kakuma are effectively large towns with their own mini-economies. Although remote, Kakuma has a population of more than 185,000 people. Refugees here come from many backgrounds, and money circulates as they take on casual odd jobs – from construction to washing clothes – or start small businesses.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Questioning Big Philanthropy At The Skoll World Forum: Is It Too Powerful And Out Of Touch?
At a conference about nonprofit endeavors and the people who run them, big philanthropy came under the microscope.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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How This Hyderabad Social Entrepreneur Is Using Big Data to Change Farmers’ Lives
At a time of widespread agricultural distress caused by successive droughts, unremunerative farming and debt-trapped rural economies, a young man with his mobile app is showing how change can be brought in the life of farmers at the grassroot level.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- South Asia
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