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Press Release: Calvert Foundation Announces Capital Aggregation Investment Business
Calvert Foundation today announced a new business line, Capital Aggregation, which expands Calvert Foundation's existing services to more actively aggregate and facilitate capital to meet the evolving needs of the communities they serve.
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- Investing
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Two-Sided Mobile Platform Creates ‘Network Effect’ to Help Patients, Health Clinics
The private health sector, where a large percentage of people in developing countries seek care, is fragmented and marked by poor quality and high prices. Two interlinked programs conceived by a group in the Netherlands – M-TIBA and the Medical Credit Fund – are attempting to address this problem at large scale. Both have achieved remarkable growth within a short period.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Shelf Life: Water for Africa with new Chivas venture
Social entrepreneur, James Steere, has created I-Drop Water, a for-profit social enterprise that designs, builds and installs drinking-water purification and dispensing machines in grocery stores at no cost, sharing income generated from water sales with store owners.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Geodata Technology Moving Into New Fields. Literally.
Geodata and ICT applications help farmers with precision farming, leading to increased yields and improved quality. This information has not yet been made available to financial institutions at a large scale, but it has the potential to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers. The Rabobank Foundation and NpM have launched a Board of Inspiration to help speed the process.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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A Kenya Hospital Merges Quality and Efficiency with Mission
Real-time operational metrics and staff development have helped make Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi a role model in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ted 2017: Frugal scientist offers malaria tools
Manu Prakash, a bio-engineer at Stanford University, designs cheap tools that can make a big difference in the poorest parts of the world.
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- Health Care
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: SEEP Forum to Tackle a Vital Issue of our Time
Women play multifaceted roles in market systems, as smallholder farmers, employees and owners of business enterprises, clients of financial institutions, and unpaid care workers, among many others. That's why the SEEP Network is hosting an international convening on women’s economic empowerment in May that aims to narrow the divide between best practices and informed policy decisions, exploring topics that are emerging as critical constraints to women’s economic empowerment across the globe.
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From Robotic Exoskeletons to ‘Uber’ for the Disabled: How Social Tech Startups Can Transform Health Care
Today, thanks to technology, individuals and startups can tackle issues that previously could only be addressed by governments and big business – including health care. Here, in advance of June's AVPN Conference in Bangkok, the social tech acceleration program Tech For Good recognizes five companies that are harnessing technology in innovative ways to solve health care and safety issues.
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- Health Care, Technology
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