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Hershey partners with cocoa suppliers to build health centers
The Hershey Co. has partnered with cocoa suppliers Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to fund and build a community health center in Cote d’Ivoire in the town of Teapleau on the Western side of the country.
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Angola Faces Health Crisis as Oil Price Drop Leads to Cutbacks
When a plunge in oil prices prompted Angola's government to slash public spending last year, street trader Antonio Simao Baptista had no idea it would leave his rundown suburb overwhelmed by filth and disease.
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Global Business Should Contribute Towards Cost of Preparing for Pandemics
Global business should play a critical role in making the world more resilient against disease outbreaks, contributing to the investment needed to strengthen health systems, respond to epidemics and develop new vaccines and drugs, the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos heard today.
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It Takes a Village to Build a Business – Lessons Learned From a Fintech Accelerator in Mexico
Accion Venture Lab recently teamed with Village Capital and the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth to launch its first-ever business accelerator. Its goal was clear: to find and assemble the 12 best early-stage fintech companies in Mexico, and help them take the leap from betas to scalable businesses. Jackie Hyland discusses lessons learned from the experience in this post.
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Calling All Failures: Failing is a Big Part of Social Entrepreneurship. F*ckUp Nights Wants You to Talk About It
Though most new companies shut down, entrepreneurs rarely talk about their failures. This is counterproductive, especially in challenging sectors like social enterprise. That’s why F*ckUp Nights is building a movement to discuss and research business failure. This exclusive series with NextBillion will feature some of their top failure stories from would-be social entrepreneurs. And if your social business has failed, you’re welcome to add your story.
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NexThought Monday: Proof Points for a New Model of Aid
Partners in Food Solutions was founded five years ago on the conviction that Africa can and someday soon will feed itself, and that there are business solutions to humanitarian problems. Today, the CEO says, that conviction has been proved out by the organization's impact and by its growing ranks of corporate partners.
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Facebook’s Campaign in India Provokes Controversy
Facebook is calling on Indian users to send an email to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), asking the government agency to support its Free Basics program. The campaign, which shows up when users sign onto the social media platform and includes a pre-filled form so they don’t even have to write an email, has already proven controversial, with opponents saying its message undermines net neutrality in India.
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Turning Flower Pots into Life-savers
In 2009, Philip Wilson led his Guatemala-based organization’s transition from an NGO to a social business, and since then its customer base has expanded dramatically. Ecofiltro found that giving its water filters away was not scalable or financially sustainable – but that ensuring his customers' dignity was.
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