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Viewpoint: Failure as a KPI: Finding Philanthropy’s Courage to Fund and Fail (and Talk About It!)
Absence of failure is not evidence of success; it is evidence that risk is being avoided. The beauty of philanthropy is that we can take risks and we can afford to fail and learn. All we need is the courage to imagine our work differently.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Analysis: Supercharging Network Intelligence
How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Global
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Drip Capital Surpasses $9 Billion in Trade Transactions as SMBs Navigate Shifting Global Supply Chains
SMBs continue to face a substantial working capital gap, with traditional banks pulling back on small business lending and alternative lenders increasingly unable to meet the scale or speed that global trade requires.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Global
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Dodai Closes $13 Million Series A to Scale E-Mobility in Ethiopia
Over the next 12 months, the company aims to reach 3,000 battery swapping users supported by 30 battery swapping stations across Addis Ababa.
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- Global
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India’s Largest Drugmaker, Sun Pharma, to Buy U.S. Firm Organon in $11.75 Billion Deal
The acquisition will lift Sun Pharmaceutical’s revenues to $ 12.4 billion, ranking it among the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regional Leaders Launch Blended Finance Initiative to Expand Surgical Care Across Latin America and the Caribbean
An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, with disproportionate impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Latin America
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New Digital Initiative to Support Alternative Livelihoods in South Africa’s Coal-Mining Communities
TechnoServe's new initiative will leverage educational technology to help entrepreneurs in coal-dependent communities build businesses and create jobs.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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