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PEPFAR: Millions treated, but better info management needed
Over the past decade, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has saved millions of lives, but a watchdog claims it could help even more if information were managed better.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Ronnie Screwvala puts profit first in social impact ventures
Ronnie Screwvala, the managing director of Walt Disney India, logs in 70 hours a week for the entertainment company and yet devotes 10-15 hours to philanthropy and social impact businesses. "Whatever one makes from the business, 10-15% should always go back to society," he says.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Communicate and stay on target: a recipe for ensuring social impact
As businesses turn social, how do they guarantee social impact?
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- Impact Assessment
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Research finds rising numbers of ‘hybrid organizations’ across sectors
An increasing number of entrepreneurs are gravitating to a new model for achieving social change: the hybrid organization. By offering a way to achieve both social and economic goals, this model has sparked the creation of thousands of social enterprises around the world, forcing long-standing business perspectives and even legal systems to make way.
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- Impact Assessment
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Social Innovation in Africa: When a Young Girl and Prime Minister Share a Vision to Fight Illiteracy
Fighting illiteracy and advancing social innovation in Africa are different sides of the same coin. Worldreader joins the two visions with a scalable approach.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Socially Responsible Investing Moving From Upstream to Mainstream
Socially responsible investing (SRI) will become mainstream within the next couple of years according to a new study on the competitive advantage of green business practices.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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An Investment Strategy in the Human Interest
You are a health official in Uganda, and you’re watching a crisis unfold. Your people have long suffered from epidemics of sleeping sickness, one of Africa’s biggest killers. There is no vaccine and the only treatment is protracted and painful. Sleeping sickness, transmitted by the tsetse fly, is carried by cattle and also kills cattle, destroying the livelihoods of families who keep them.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Literacy, Not Income, Key To Improving Public Health In India
New research suggests public health in developing countries may be better improved by reducing illiteracy rather than raising average income.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia