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Industry Emerging from the Rubble in Haiti: How building skills locally through community networks can create sustainable businesses
Throughout the street markets in Port-au-Prince, a growing corps of entrepreneurs – mostly women – is helping the fuel-efficient stove market take root, showing how empowered local businesses, even in the poorest and most difficult-to-navigate environments, can create sustainable enterprises that employ and train local workers.
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- Education, Health Care
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Acumen makes first cookstove investment with Burn Manufacturing
Acumen announces its new investment in BURN Manufacturing, a cookstove company that aims to transform the lives of Kenyans with its low-cost, energy-efficient design.
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- Energy
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- clean cooking
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PRESS RELEASE Bank of America Partners with Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Bank of America today announced a partnership with the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) to raise $100 million to help provide clean cooking solutions to millions of households in the developing world.
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- Energy
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Philips and SNV collaborate to increase access to clean, efficient cooking solutions for communities in Africa
Royal Philips and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (http://www.snvworld.org), will be working together to improve access to clean cooking solutions in Africa by introducing clean and efficient household cook stoves to rural communities across the continent. The partnership aims to improve the health and well-being and income of rural populations while having a direct positive impact on the environment and will include research, community education and access to financing for adopting clean cooking technologies.
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5 ways to deliver nutrition through cash crop standards
Nutrition security is an essential part of improving farmer livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Reflecting Our Energy for Impact: How can we strengthen the contributions of incubators and accelerators?
James Koch, a co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University, examines how to strengthen incubators and accelerators, an integral part of enterprise development. Based more than a decade of developing enterprises through the GSBI, Koch offers four suggestions.
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NexThought Monday – MNCs, the Grassroots and the Future of the BoP
Santa Clara State University’s Jim Koch says two big conferences in the last ten years have come to frame BoP market development efforts. What can we learn from what did – and what notably did not – transpire in the decade between the two gatherings? Among other things, Koch says major corporations have been greatly eclipsed by grassroots innovators.
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- Education
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Empowering People With Cooking Stoves
Imagine spending 30 percent of your income on cooking fuel, inhaling the equivalent of 20 cigarettes daily while preparing meals for your family, and having to send your daughter to collect fuel for hours every day. What sounds like a far-fetched scenario is the reality of millions of people around the world in countries like Nepal, Darfur and Haiti.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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