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Interview: Jonathan Chang, Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation
Thirty-five-year–old Jonathan Chang is the Singapore-based founder of four Silicon Valley social enterprises. He has two degrees from Harvard and has taught social enterprise in Rwanda to genocide survivors. Here he explains why society should look at social entrepreneurship as a business, not a charity.
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Multilateral Investment Fund Supports Creation of Impact Investing Fund for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay
The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), member of the IDB Group, is supporting the creation of an Impact Investing Fund for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, seeking to trigger the flow of local and international capital for investments in early stage impact companies operating in those countries. The MIF will act as anchor investor in this Fund.
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- Latin America
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Cheap cancer measures could save hundreds of thousands of lives in poor countries
Health interventions costing as little as $1.72 per person could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from breast and cervical cancer in developing countries, scientists said on Tuesday.
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University Students in Bolivia Create Chip That Helps Detect Tuberculosis
Two Bolivian university students have created a chip for microscopes that automatically detects tuberculosis in sputum samples, a procedure that in Bolivia and other developing countries is normally done with not always accurate bacilloscopy.
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Vanderbilt Financial Group Introduces New Impact Investing Think Tank, Website: Impact U
Vanderbilt Financial Group will host their Annual Sales and Compliance Meeting on Thursday October 27th, and launch their newest project, Impact U. Impact U will house original content, in the form of interviews, videos, e-books, and podcasts with Impact Experts and Enthusiasts on a communal platform to spread the impact investing movement.
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At Just $5, This Solar Lamp is the Most Affordable in the World
There are still millions of people on the planet for whom basic clean lighting is a luxury, with the only other alternatives being kerosene, candles, or fire, all of which come at a cost, both in terms of money and in air quality, and to whom a clean reliable way to light up a room can make all the difference.
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The Father of M-Pesa on Being Innovative in Africa
Nick Hughes is known for being at the forefront of innovation in Africa. He is responsible for founding and developing the M-Pesa mobile payments service in the mid-2000s while working at Vodafone. Today the platform is hailed as one of Africa’s top success stories. Over 70% of the Kenyan population uses M-Pesa, and other markets – such as Tanzania – are showing strong adoption.
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A Bra That Could Get People Talking About Breast Cancer
How do you get women who never talk about breast cancer to start opening up? That was the question on the mind of Usman Saleemi, who along with colleagues Tiya Fazelbhoy and Jaison Ben created a bra designed to encourage breast self-examination among women in Pakistan.
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