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World Cup Soccer & Social Enterprise: A Hybrid Financing Model
The potential of hybrid financing strategies to accelerate the growth of the social business sector was one of the topics at the fourth edition of the Impact Economy Symposium & Retreat in Switzerland on June 13-15, 2014.
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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Echoing Green Announces The Next Generation Of Social Entrepreneurs
Today Echoing Green announced its 2014 class of Fellows including Global, Black Male Achievement and Climate Fellows.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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iDE Cambodia hits 100,000 toilet sales in 2 years
iDE Cambodia has facilitated the sale of 100,000 Easy Latrines in two years through sanitation marketing, reaching an estimated 470,000 people, according to a June 14 press release.
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WHO urges ‘drastic action’ on Ebola, calls 11-nation meeting
Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization on Thursday called for "drastic action" to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, as it announced an 11-nation meeting to address the growing crisis.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reuters: Sanofi plans to put dengue program into separate unit
Sanofi ($SNY) has been working on a vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne dengue virus for 20 years, and now it may be breaking that program off into a distinct unit.
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British Medical Journal article on graft in Indian healthcare creates stir
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article on corruption in Indian healthcare is creating a flutter in the medical community and policy experts. Written by Australian medical practitioner Dr David Berger who volunteered as a physician at a charitable hospital in the Himalayas, the article titled “Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India” highlights how “kickbacks and bribes oil every part of the healthcare machinery” and says there is a “lack of the will to reform these practices”.
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