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NexThought Monday – We’re in this Together: With the Practical Impact Alliance, MIT building broad network to support BoP enterprise development
In February, D-Lab hosted a workshop for representatives from 15 multinational corporations, social ventures and non-governmental organizations, including Unilever, Danone, Vodafone and the Grameen Foundation. It led to the creation of Practical Impact Alliance, a community of change-makers from within leading business, social and academic actors to accelerate impact on global poverty.
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- Education
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- academia
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Weekly Roundup – 5/10/14: Every investment is an “impact investment”
Every investment has a social/environmental impact on some level - a fact that more and more investors are taking into account. We discuss Stanford University’s decision to divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, and a recent J.P. Morgan/GIIN survey of top impact investors, in this roundup.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Good Ideas, Multiplied: How NGO, research collaboration is boosting social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs are celebrated for bringing new ideas to the table. But is a great idea enough to have the intended impact? While entrepreneurship celebrates the new, what role should existing research networks and NGOs, who bring deep sector expertise and trusting relationships with target communities, play in supporting social entrepreneurship?
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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$23M Award at Notre Dame Fights Malaria and Dengue Fever
The grant is the second largest award to a single grant proposal in Notre Dame's history.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Enterprise in Haiti: An oxymoron or a reality?
More than two dozen development-minded thinkers and doers convened in Cambridge, Mass., for a competition-based workshop designed to find a market-based solution to cholera in Haiti. The winning idea, which includes recruiting and training “community chlorinators,” is expected to be up and running by this time next year.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Harvard Awarded $8.1 Million for Transparency Research on Health and Other Social Sector Outcomes
Harvard University researchers have been awarded $8.1 million for a five-year project to research the impact of community transparency and accountability initiatives on health and other social sector outcomes, beginning in Indonesia and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- academia, public health, research
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BoP Health Care Gets a $10 Million Boost: What Duke’s new SEAD program could mean for you
Few universities are as active in BoP health care and social entrepreneurship as Duke. Now, thanks to a $10 million award from USAID, the university is poised to dramatically expand its impact in both fields. Duke will use the funds to launch the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a development lab that will identify and support solutions to global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Education, Health Care
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UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
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- Education, Health Care
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- academia, public health