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Sankalp Forum Announces 2012 ‘Most Scalable Enterprises’
The Sankalp 2012 South East Asia finalists comprise of some of the most promising business ventures having a social or environmental impact from the region. Since 2009 Sankalp has brought visibility and support to social ventures, which otherwise would not have had access to funding, publicity and mentorship. This year, we have expanded our geographic reach and are highlighting 6 ventures from South East Asia amongst our finalists.
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Kenya: Total’s Solar Kits Target Poor Households
Total Kenya is banking on portable solar kits for lighting and charging of mobile phones to break into the Kenyan renewable energy market.
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The EzyStove Improves On Man’s Greatest Invention, Fire
Can designers build a better fire? For developing countries, they had to.
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Micro-lender’s Own Probe Links It to 200 Suicides
First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewelry. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children.
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Bill Gates to UN: Find new ways to help poor farmers; announces $200 million in grants
ROME — Current approaches to global agriculture are outdated, inefficient and don’t give small farmers in poor countries the help they really need, Bill Gates told U.N. food agencies Thursday as he announced nearly $200 million in grants. The Microsoft founder brought his campaign to fight poverty and hunger in Africa and Asia to a forum of the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), one of three Rome-based U.N. food agencies.Much of some $2 billion spent over the past five years to fight poverty and hunger in Africa and Asia by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has gone toward improving agricultural productivity.
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- Agriculture
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Anudip Foundation to Raise Up to Rs 3.21Cr from Omidyar Network
This is Omidyar’s third funding deal in India in as many months after backing Teach For India and Aspiring Minds.
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- Education
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The State and Future of Impact Investing
In a recent interview with Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, we discussed his new book about the impact investing sector, emerging trends and ideas in this space, challenges and opportunities moving forward, what the world would look like if the potential of impact investing were to be realized, and advice to traditional investors interested in becoming an impact investor.
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Impact Investing: Chinese Investors’ National Solution
A recent micro-blog[1] message from Kai-fu Lee, the serious-minded Chairman of Innovation Works[2], seemed to deliver some intentionally juicy gossip for a change. According to this micro-blog, Lee and his well-known Chinese angel investor friend Xu Xiaoping were chatting, when suddenly Xu Xiaoping became emotional and said, "Whenever I think about the future of my motherland, I lose even the slightest interest in the opposite sex." In China’s micro-blog sphere, which is usually dominated by heavy topics, this remark taken out of context sounds almost like an insider’s joke. It helped initiate a sense of humor from many fellow micro-bloggers - to no surprise, following the micro-blog, there was a virtual explosion of similar comments.
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