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Make Money in Social Enterprise With a Business School Degree
Social enterprise is a newer area of business used to address shortcomings in society, such as environmental challenges or education disparities, but often pays less than traditional fields. The lower salary potential could deter students going to business school to make more money.
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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus from the ‘m’ to the ‘Health’
Many lament the slow pace at which formal mHealth innovations are mainstreamed, blaming a dearth of robust evidence and hesitant policy makers. Still, the pace of evidence is accelerating, and a possible future is not difficult to imagine.
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Dasra philanthropy foundation grants $800,000 award to six organizations
Strategic philanthropy foundation, Dasra, has announced the $800,000 Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF) grant award to six organizations building the ecosystem for impact investing in India.
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How an iPad in a corner store can spell success in Mexico
On the outskirts of Mexico City, just past the dusty plateau of a defunct landfill, the cinder block houses of Chimalhuacán crowd a hillside. It’s a city beyond a city, made up of nearly 1 million residents including surrounding areas, yet it lacks many of services and stores one might expect of a city – like banks.
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Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV
Researchers have discovered a promising delivery method to help make an HIV vaccine effective prior to and even after the infection. The new finding at Oregon Health & Science University highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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Four Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. Dubbed HeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services--including family planning services--are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by four-wheel drive vehicles, bicycles, camels and good old-fashioned human feet. And in Malawi, durable e-health hardware--even touch screen computers--that are significantly more robust in harsh environments with erratic power supplies are being manufactured by Malawians.
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Food prices squeezing poor people and driving social change by stealth
A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Social media: five lessons for social entrepreneurs
Twitter and Facebook are valuable tools for social enterprises – but there are a number of pitfalls you should avoid
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