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NetSuite Donates Cloud Services to Social Enterprises
NetSuite , the SaaS business management solution vendor, is a publicly traded and profitable corporation. But NetSuite has a softer side, too - specifically, NetSuite.org, the company’s corporate citizenship program that gives away NetSuite subscriptions for free to social enterprises. That is, enterprises, both non-profit and otherwise, who use market forces to achieve a soci...
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Acumen Fund Co-Invests $2.2 Million in Ugandan Cotton Ginnery
The New York-based Acumen Fund --a non-profit investment firm that seeks social and financial returns while helping reduce global poverty--is now in the East African country of Uganda. The Gulu Agricultural Development Company (GADC) will receive $2.2 million from a co-investment between Acumen Fund and Root Capital, with the goal of improving the company’s organic cotton output and helping civil war refugees in...
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ICICI Bank, Vodafone Join Hands to Offer Mobile Banking
NEW DELHI: In order to take advantage of the mobile teledensity in India, private sector lender ICICI Bank today entered into an agreement with mobile service provider Vodafone Essar to offer financial products such as savings accounts and pre-paid instruments. This partnership is expected to bring the unbanked and under-banked population into the organised financial services ...
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World Agriculture Threatened by Water Gluttony: Report
NEW YORK - World agriculture employs more than one billion people but is in trouble because it’s the biggest consumer of ever scarcer water and a huge producer of greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said Wednesday. Worldwatch Institute, a research group on climate, energy, agriculture and the green economy, said there had to be a revolution in investment in food and water to reverse a "frightening" long-term depletion of stocks. "Agriculture as we know it today is in troubl...
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China’s Top Social Innovators to Watch in 2011
By Calvin Chin I firmly believe that China will be a leader in social innovation. But while there is a tremendous amount of dynamism and energy in this newly emerging sector, ...
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A Light in India
In vast stretches of the developing world, after the sun sets, everything goes dark. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 70 percent of the population lack electricity. However, no country has more citizens living without power than India, where more than 400 million people , the vast majority of them villagers, have no electricity. The place that remains most in darkness is Bihar, India’s poor...
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Quake-hit Haiti Looks to Textile Park for Jobs Boon
(Reuters) - The U.S. and Haitian governments signed a deal on Tuesday with a South Korea n garment manufacturer to develop an industrial park in quake-hit Haiti in one of the largest investment projects in the poor Caribbean country. The project with South Korea’s Sae-A Trading Company Limited is also backed by the Inter-American Development Bank and intends to breathe new life into Haiti’...
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Africa: Stanford University to Explore Entrepreneurship and Development in Continent
On Saturday, January 29th, Stanford University will host its fifth annual Stanford Africa Forum. This year the conference will explore Entrepreneurship and Development in Africa. The topic of entrepreneurship is particularly relevant to Africa. In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion in the development community that socioeconomic advancement is better achieved through business (entrepreneurship and social enterprise) than through traditional aid. Many iterations...
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