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D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Sidhant Pai, Zehra Ali, and Matthew Orosz to receive funding and mentorship over 12-month fellowship.
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Four in five investors consider sustainability issues – PwC survey
Four in five investors have looked at sustainability issues in one or more investment contexts in the last year, according to research from PwC. However, investors also cited dissatisfaction with current reporting standards.
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- Education, Environment
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PRESS RELEASE: Correlation Established Between Mobile Phone Usage and Banking Behavior
Findings are result of WSBI project carried out by Cignifi
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Teaching People Not Just to Fish, But to Build Businesses Too
As USAID’s annual letter this year notes, in development it is no longer enough to teach a farmer to grow a new crop—or in this case, to fish. Our work isn’t done until we help a farmer learn to run a successful business too. This is precisely what is happening in Bangladesh.
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5 Inspiring Books on Social Entrepreneurship
As the founder of a social enterprise called LSTN Headphones, I often look to companies and entrepreneurs I admire for advice on navigating our growing business while continuing our mission to do well while doing good. Below are a few of the books I’ve found to help guide our startup through new challenges and inspire the team to work harder to make our company succeed.
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Best Business Schools For Social Entrepreneurship
Over the last decade an increasing number of entrepreneurs are interested in initiating entrepreneurial projects that aim to bring social change. This special type of entrepreneurs are called social entrepreneurs.
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Dating site tech inspires health research website
A meeting on drug discovery and development run by The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases in London, United Kingdom, yesterday, brimmed with useful tips and resources for the research community. One of them was the just-launched space on The Global Health Network’s website dedicated to collaboration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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- Education, Health Care
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Pizarro: Santa Clara University puts spotlight on social enterprise
Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg and Graham MacMillan, senior program director for the Citi Foundation, were presented with the first Magis Global Changemaker awards at a benefit dinner Sunday for Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society.
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- Education, Environment