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Guest Post: Setting Up an Export Business (Or Folding a T-Shirt) Without Wrinkles: Brazil’s Maos de Minas helps artisans connect to global market
Maos de Minas (“the hands of Minas”) promotes the artisan sector and preserves the cultural identity of the region Minas Gerais, the fourth largest of the 26 states of Brazil. Some 500,000 of the state’s approximately 20 million inhabitants are artisans, and about 7,000 of them are active members of Maos de Minas. Our project with the Maos de Minas organization is part of the SAP Social Sabbatical program.
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Get Your Corporate Governance Groove On: Why social entrepreneurs need get in step with reality
You started out with just an idea for a social enterprise, and you’ve worked hard to get the right pieces in place to put it into action. Who’s going to be your CEO? If you’re not ready for that question yet, you should be. You may think the answer is obvious: You. Guess again.
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Does Africa really benefit from foreign investment?
African economies have grown robustly over the past decade, but that has not solved the continent's economic problems.
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WAMDA: Inspiring, Empowering and Connecting Entrepreneurs in the MENA Region
Launched by Abraaj Capital at 2010 milestone event “Celebration of Entrepreneurship” in Dubai in 2010, Wamda has evolved to be a major entrepreneurship platform in the region. It nurtures entrepreneurship both online as well as offline by combining an information outlet, funding opportunities, and additional programs – each specifically catered to entrepreneurs in the MENA region.
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After Invention, it Only Gets Harder: Technology distribution isn’t as sexy as innovation, but it’s critical
However noble an engineer’s aspirations may be, mere invention is not enough. Functional sales, marketing, distribution, and after-sales service strategies are required to get technologies into the hands of people they are intended to benefit. Without this holistic picture, technologies fail to achieve significant impact, and are essentially designed in vain.
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Ten Years in Social Entrepreneurship: The 19 innovators who presented at GSBI represent broader entrepreneurship trends
The social entrepreneurship concept and community have grown tremendously in the last decade. Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) celebrated 10 years of working with over 150 social entrepreneurs to build financially sustainable ventures that scale. Last week,19 social entrepreneurs in our tenth cohort delivered their business plan presentations. Individually and collectively, they reflect broader trends in social entrepreneurship.
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TechnoServe Launches Program to Boost Development of Central American and African Businesses
Some 560 SMEs will be able to develop their businesses through a new entrepreneurship development program, “Impulsa Tu Empresa (Boost Your Business), that TechnoServe plans to implement in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Burkina Faso in Africa. The program, supported by the Argidius Foundation, is designed to give mentoring and business training for entrepreneurs.
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- Agriculture, Education
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ANDE Goes Global: The network has added four new global team members
To begin to address the need for more local collaboration, we started to pilot Regional Chapters in early 2010 by asking members where they should be – and encouraging them to work with us to design and launch chapters in regions where there were high concentrations of ANDE members who wanted to work together in a more intentional way. This led to the launch of chapters in Brazil, Central America/Mexico, East Africa and South Africa in 2010, followed by India in 2011. We have recently increased our team to include four new global team members.
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