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  • The New India: Social Entrepreneurship as a Family Affair

    BANGALORE -- Neelam Chhiber met her husband Jacob Mathew in graduate school, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Today, with their 19-year-old son Nishant, they are giving me one family’s story of the improvisational networking and social entrepreneurship that are all the rage in digital India. It’s not all monster business yet, and probably never will be. In the Chhiber-Mathew case...

    Source
    Huffington Post (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Not the Typical Charity Case: Profits from SKS IPO

    Investors linked to a charity stand to receive millions of dollars when a company they supported in lending to the poor in India goes public next week. The charity, Unitus , abruptly dismissed most of its staff this month , saying it h...

    Source
    PortFoliio (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Why Women are Economic Backbone of Rwanda

    Kigali, Rwanda (CNN) -- Six days a week Bernadette Ndizigiye puts her skillful hands to work. Stretched out on the floor of an empty classroom in Kigali, Ndizigiye and 20 other women weave baskets to earn their keep. Her job at the Agaseke Project, a government run cooperative, has earned Ndizigiye a steady wage, her first savings account, and a taste of financial empowerment. "I can pay school fees for m...

    Source
    CNN (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Translating Good Intentions into Good Inventions

    FORT COLLINS, CO (KUNC) - During the month of July, Colorado State University in Fort Collins is hosting 48 budding entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors from 17 countries. Their mission is to work on product inventions like cheap solar water heaters that are targeted to people living in the developing world. A Business Approach to Philanthropy Being an inventor takes a lot of hard work, intelligence and a little bit of elbow grease.&nbs...

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    NPR (link opens in a new window)
  • Fund Seeks to Invest in the West African Seed Industry

    The West Africa Agricultural Investment Fund ("WAAIF") and Injaro Investments Limited ("Injaro") Monday announced the First Closing of the first ever West African fund focused on investing in indigenous seed production companies. The initial investors in the fund are The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Lundin For Africa Society, a Vancouver-based foundation. The launch of the fund will provide capital that is desperately needed by West Africa’s cr...

    Source
    My Joy Online (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Applications for the Masses

    It was in the middle of last year that we decided to launch the mobile award as an advocacy and innovation reference platform, and named it mBillionth to work towards enabling mobile as a tool to make every critical content and service reach the bottom of the pyramid-the billionth person. With rigorous exercise across South Asia through various partnerships and help, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Consider this: We got more than...

    Source
    LiveMint (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Creating a Consumption Class Out of the Poor

    The late management guru CK Prahalad told us that there is a market at the bottom of the pyramid. Indian companies discovered that with the Re1 shampoo sachet. Ratan Tata believes that there is a huge market for the bottom-of-the-line Nano. But there is something missing here: the bottom below the bottom of the economic pyramid, where the fight is for the next meal. Subsistence living means there’s no market. This is job No 1 for our anti-p...

    Source
    DNA India (link opens in a new window)
    Region
    South Asia
  • Microfinance Mission Accomplished? Hardly, Expert Says

    The recent decision by its board to close Seattle nonprofit Unitus and shift its resources to "other strategic areas" prompted Adam Sorensen, a consultant working for the International Finance Corporation, to write a response questioning the actions. Here’s his personal perspe...

    Source
    The Seattle Times (link opens in a new window)
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