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As Contamination Grows, Private Water Shops Spring Up in Pakistani Slums
In Pakistan, waterborne diseases cause 40 percent of illnesses. Outdated and mismanaged city infrastructure poses serious health threats and challenges. Among the colorful storefronts of Lahore’s densely packed slum areas, new water shops have opened up that provide WHO-standard water to the neighborhoods at affordable rates.
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- Agriculture
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B Corps Go Global: Sistema B Certifies South American Social Enterprise
Last fall, a small group of social entrepreneurs from South America met to discuss how to foster more social enterprise in the region and create more bang for the buck at existing enterprise. The result was Sistema B, the first effort to adapt the American system of B Corporations—which ease operations for companies that combine profit and social good—to a foreign setting.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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Can SKS Change Its Spots?
After being the bad boy of microfinance, SKS is now trying to pick itself up and transform into a more cost-effective, diversified organization.
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- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup: Brewing Inspiration (and Respect)
Two stories this week in the New York Times and Fast Company present arguments against paternalistic tendencies of linking aid to trade and advocate viewing and treating African entrepreneurs as you would any business hopeful.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: Before Jumping Into Crowd Funding, Remember There’s No Free Lunch
The aggregate of ‘the crowd’ giving or investing small amounts can add up to a meaningful total. Dozens of websites offer platforms for you to raise money. Amounts are small, as low as $10, and many of these sites work with donations. DONATIONS? For a business? Sounds like free money, right? But remember, there is no free lunch.
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Business Lessons From A Baby Elephant
Vijay Govindarajan is the co-author, with Chris Trimble, of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which hits bookshelves on April 10. A professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, Govindarajan chatted with Fast Company about $2,000 heart surgery, elephant prostheses, and the need for American businesses to, in essence, study abroad.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Njambre, a New Social Enterprise Accelerator in Argentina Looks to ‘Swarm’ Impact
Based in Buenos Aires, Njambre (a Spanish term for “swarm”) is a new space of support, advice, and mentorship for social entrepreneurs. Launched by Paula Cardenau, Emiliano Fazio and Federico Seineldin, Njambre seeks to identify entrepreneurs with ideas and with the potential of becoming sound social enterprises.
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