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Dump the Prizes?: Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
Last month, Kevin Starr’s provocative article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review spotlighted one of the oldest tools to source and support social innovations: prize competitions. As one of the early players in the field, the Changemakers team would like to add its two cents to the conversation.
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Impact Investment Lawyering: Educating a new kind of lawyer
In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan Law School launched an International Transactions Clinic (ITC), a first of its kind in legal education. During the last five years, the ITC has provided this unique, experiential learning opportunity to nearly 80 students who, in turn, have advised real social enterprise conducting more than 100 transactions around the globe.
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Competition Launch: Women Powering Work in MENA
General Electric and Ashoka Changemakers has launched an online competition in search of innovative solutions that will advance economic opportunities for women in Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan. Women Powering Work: Innovations for Economic Equality is calling for initiatives that enable women to achieve economic equality, strengthen their families and communities, and benefit equitably from economic growth.
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How Brazil’s Tenda Atacado Group Serves The Base Of The Pyramid
The Tenda Atacado Group has 19 cash and carry stores in São Paulo, Brazil. By the end of 2013, it’s projecting revenues of US $900 million. Every month, it serves 1.3 million clients - 25 percent of whom are entrepreneurs - representing 50 percent of its sales. CEO Marco Gorini discusses Tenda Atacado’s strategy of focusing on formal and informal entrepreneurs at the BoP.
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Moving from the What to the How of BoPBiz
The massive interest and the multi-sectorial participation in the BASE II Forum International indicate that the field of base of the pyramid business models has matured. They indicate that the debate has reached another level where the questions and issues turn around the how, not the what.
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Kenya: Seacom Opens Up Internet to Kenyan Techies
Fibre optic cable provider SEACOM has given 100 MegaBytes per Second (mbps) of internet connectivity to four innovation centers in Kenya to enhance their capacity to generate local content for a global audience.
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Good Ideas Meet Elbow Grease: Evidence Action committed to taking evidence-based programs and services to large scale
Evidence Action begins from the premise that achieving scale across sectors and contexts is a solvable challenge, and that it can lead to gains in expertise and experience. The private sector has demonstrated this to be the case.
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The Power of Insurance: Why Haiti’s future depends on planning for the worst
People don’t think the poor need insurance, as if poverty implies they have nothing to protect. But the goal of insurance is to make sure people can survive hardships, and the poor are those who are most exposed. The challenge Haiti faces is building a safety net for rural people whose certificate of deposit is their cow, whose demand deposit is their goat, and whose cash is a chicken.
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