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Founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs from Switzerland and Germany — including current CEO Nico Luchsinger — Sandbox presently has more than 800 members in 25 hubs spanning four continents. Now the New York City-based network is looking for cities around the world eager to become part of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Does Your City Have What it Takes? : Sandbox Network launches expansion campaignNews
Philippe Douste-Blazy, special adviser to the UN secretary-general on innovative finance for development and chairman of Unitaid, the global health partnership, talks about his work
‘The case for aid? Poverty can be a catalyst for extremist views’News
“No intellectual property should stand in the way of you, the countries of the world, protecting your people. Do you agree or not?”
The battle for affordable drugsBlog Post
After operating as a non-profit for a year and a half, I decided to flip BLISS to a for-profit. As a nonprofit, we were attracting the wrong people and the wrong money. This is something I had feared, but when it started coming true, it hurt our progress more than I could have imagined. I learned this the hard way, but having a purpose other than profit, such as creating social impact, is not sufficient reason to be a non-profit.
The Profit vs. Nonprofit Tug of War: From investors to employees, why my social business did a 180News
Just hours after the 27-member U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda unveiled its recommendations to replace the MDGs in New York, the thousands of stakeholders involved in the process began to analyze how the framework will affect international cooperation and the delivery of foreign aid until 2030.
UN panel’s post-2015 goals: ‘Promising start’ or ‘lacking a roadmap’?News
The 66th World Health Assembly concluded with a number of resolutions and action plans adopted and approved in the more than week-long conference.
66th World Health Assembly: 5 takeawaysNews
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it.
The New Idealism of International AidBlog Post
Over 90 percent of the 5.8 million annual deaths from physical injury occur in low-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented with surgical treatment. But hospitals at the BoP lose power, on average, 18 times per month, making surgery difficult. Here’s how Gradian Health Systems is addressing this challenge.
Innovations in Anesthesia: How Gradian Health Systems is making surgery safer at the BoP
