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Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a nonprofit that encourages social responsibility in business, has made the case that teaching economic and health skills to workers goes beyond a nice corporate social responsibility campaign: it actually improves a company’s bottom line. In 2007 created HERproject, a training program for garment factory workers that has caught on among big manufacturers.
Make Your Clothes Worth Wearing: How global brands are (finally) investing in factory workersNews
An Ebola vaccine should be ready for public use by 2015, the United Nation’s health agency has said.
Ebola virus: Vaccine ‘should be ready for 2015’, WHO says, as GSK plays down timingBlog Post
This week, president Obama hosted nearly 50 African leaders at the White House to strengthen business ties with the continent - provoking cautious optimism and quite a bit of criticism. Meanwhile, a new development in the Ebola scare raised questions about the inequalities between rich and poor countries.
Weekly Roundup (8/9/14) – Ethics and Africa: Controversy around a White House summit and an Ebola cure highlight tensions between the global north and southNews
The banks wouldn't give him a loan, so Cameroonian Georges Badjangs approached a crowdfunding platform. Although relatively unknown in Africa, this alternative source of finance is helping his firm grow.
African entrepreneurs turning to crowdfundingBlog Post
Smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire produce 40 percent of the world cocoa supply. Yet the vast majority still live in poverty due to declining productivity, and in the absence of long-term financing opportunities, many have been changing to other crops. Rainforest Alliance’s Helen Roy describes how socially-minded investors are mobilizing capital to help these farmers revive their land.
Chocolate at Risk?: Why sustainable finance is crucial to ensuring a steady cocoa supply for the world’s chocolate industryBlog Post
A common complaint in impact investing is the lack of options for non-wealthy investors. Many feel that this hamstrings both mainstream investors and the social enterprises that could use their capital. But as Jenny Kassan, CEO of Cutting Edge Capital, describes it in part 4 of our Impact Investing Insights series, a solution to this problem already exists.
The Best-Kept Secret in Impact Investing: A little-known legal tool lets businesses tap mainstream investor capital – so why don’t more social enterprises use it?News
The head of the World Health Organization has told the presidents of West African nations stricken by Ebola that the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it.
WHO: Ebola Spread Outpaces Control EffortBlog Post
Failures in the Ugandan market deter farmers from adopting best practices for harvesting and handling, which in turn floods the market with low-quality crops for raw materials. Clinton Wong, a volunteer consultant for TechnoServe, helped lead an initiative to map the food sector in Uganda as part of the Solutions for African Food Enterprises (SAFE) program.
In Uganda, Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Food Security
