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  NexThought Monday: Want to Work at a Social Enterprise? Stand out with these skills

  So what do you need to stand out as a job applicant to social enterprises? In our experience here at Impact Business Leaders, where we’ve helped more than 70 professionals find new roles in social enterprises, there are a few key skill sets that have set our most successful participants apart.

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  Crédit Rural de Guinée Wins 6th European Microfinance Award, for Innovative Response to Ebola Outbreak

  Crédit Rural de Guinée (CRG) has been announced as the winner of the 6 th European Microfinance Award, focusing this year on Microfinance in Post-disaster, Post-conflict Areas & Fragile States, for its innovative response to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea. The Award was presented during European Microfinance Week by Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, during a ceremony on 19th November held at the European Investment Bank Headquarters in Luxembourg.

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  Weekly Roundup 11-20-15: Being Bullish on Being Dovish

  Given the dire news of terrorism from Paris, and yes, in Beirut as well, it can feel like war and talk of war is everywhere. Which is why the essay “Impact Investing for Peace?” by Durreen Shahnaz, founder and chairwoman of the Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), in Wharton magazine was a welcome sight for sore eyes. We need to talk more about peace dividends, not just war deficits.

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  On World Toilet Day, One Billion People Have Nowhere to Go

  Some 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers, according to the United Nations.

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  Cashless Nigeria: Facilitating the Transition to Digital Payments

  The emergence of Nigeria as a regional economic powerhouse has presented a challenge for Nigerian policymakers: How to convert Nigeria’s growth at the macro level into greater financial inclusion, so that the rising economic tide can benefit more people.
  

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  Gates Foundation Cuts Fossil Fuel Investments — but Why?

  Almost every day for the past several months, protesters gathered outside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Seattle headquarters, exhorting the world’s richest philanthropy to fight climate change by pulling its investments from fossil-fuel companies.

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  How Africa Is Hacking Its Energy Crisis

  At a small dispensary in a village just outside Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I stared in disbelief as I watched health care provider, Recho Mengo, expertly balance a cell phone in her mouth so that she could free her hands to measure a pregnant woman's belly. The phone's flashlight was providing the only source of light in a facility that has no power. I couldn't help but think back to my own pregnancy less than two years prior; the situations were like night and day.

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  Ebix Launches ‘Ask a Doctor’ in Rajasthan, Plans to Expand

  The Atlanta, Georgia-based international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, Ebix Inc., recently announced it gas launched its telemedicine service, “Ask a Doctor,” throughout the state of Rajasthan.