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R.I.P. Social Ventures?
"How do you know when to pull the plug on your idea?" That’s the question Kiwanja.net’s Ken Banks posed to me after swapping stories one afternoon about our respective startup organizations. Implementing ideas demands a physical and emotional investment, and once you’ve put so much into it, it becomes hard to know when to throw in the towel.
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Social Investing Part 1: Risks, Returns, and Me
A lot of investors can give charitably, but cannot fathom making an investment in a social venture that does not have an appropriate risk-reward trade-off. So, what does this mean for social ventures? Will they never be able to attract the appropriate funding necessary to achieve significant scale?
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Root Capital Launches 5-Year, $63M Growth Capital Campaign
Root Capital announced today that it has launched a comprehensive Growth Capital Campaign that will significantly increase its capacity to serve rural grassroots businesses in developing countries by establishing a sustainable social enterprise and fully self-sufficient lending program by 2013. The five-year $63 million campaign includes a unique combination of Philanthropic Equity and Debt Capital and will accelerate the organization’s ability to impact global poverty by linking rural ...
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Agora Partnerships and Heroes of Development
As I learn more about entrepreneurship and job creation efforts I am increasingly convinced that we need a broader range of tools than either microcredit or social venture funding typically offer.? Recently Agora Partnerships caught my eye when they and their founder Ben Powell were awarded a Draper Richards Fellowship.
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Job: Business Development Manager – Marketing, Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is looking to create a step change in terms of awareness, excitement, and membership in our community of supporters and advocates ? from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and someday millions of people who believe that markets and entrepreneurship have a central role to play in the global fight on poverty.
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Job: Search and Selection Associate, Endeavor
Position: Search and Selection AssociateLocation: New YorkOrganization: Founded in 1997, Endeavor works with High-Impact Entrepreneurs in Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa, and India. High-Impact Entrepreneurs are operating for-profit businesses with enormous growth potential....
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Job: Summer Associates, Acumen Fund
Position: Summer Associates (varied roles)Locations: MultipleNew York, NYKarachi, PakistanHyderabad, IndiaNairobi, KenyaOrganization: Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that small...
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Next Billions Swarm Davos; Quadir Calls for an End to Aid
It was a high profile news day for the development-through-enterprise community today.? First, a report was published at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland entitled The Next Billions: Unleashing Business Potential in Untapped Markets.? The report was produced by the Boston...
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