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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Combine Profit and Purpose
Depending on your background and skills, you may feel limited about which area you decide to go into. However, this shouldn't always be the case. The key is to pick an industry that has a real, tangible impact on the world.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Ag Stigma Be Damned: Flipping the Script for Young People, Farming and Investment
Smallholder farmers are getting older – the average age of a coffee farmer is 60 – and fewer and fewer young people are replacing them. This problem isn’t new. But it’s becoming more and more urgent. Will McAneny at Root Capital writes about several agricultural businesses that are flipping the script by asking: What if opportunity flourished on the farm?
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- Agriculture, Education, Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Shortlist Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding to Help Employers Discover Untapped Talent Across Africa and India
Employment tech startup Shortlist today announced $1 million in seed funding from US-based private equity firm University Ventures, Indian angel investor Samir Shah of Sattva Capital, Kenya-based seed fund Zephyr Acorn, global impact investor FARM Ventures, and US- based investor Bodley Group.
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- Press Release
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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846 Companies Honored as Best for the World, Creating Positive Impact for Workers, Environment, Community
“Today's honorees inspire all companies to compete not only to be best in the world, but best for the world. We hope many will take the first step to follow their lead by using the B Impact Assessment to measure and manage their impact with as much rigor as their profits,” said Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B Lab.
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- Uncategorized
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Social Enterprises Are Starting To Suck Up All The Talent From Nonprofits
According to the report’s fine print, the number of organizations expecting to hire dropped 7% year-over-year, while it rose 4% among social enterprises in the private sector. And that changes the stakes of the hiring game a bit. It’s no longer nonprofit versus nonprofit.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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The Other Capital in Impact Investing: Why Human Capital May Matter More than Money, and What Investors Can Do About It
Money is not enough for impact businesses to succeed, according to Paul Breloff of Shortlist; they need an answer to their human capital challenges to unlock their world-changing potential. Here he discusses why human capital matters, why it's being under-supported by impact investors and what it will take for more investors to see it for what it is – an area of great opportunity.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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How Ikea helped to change attitudes on helping refugees
Refugee populations have long been reliant on charitable aid agencies, but could business investment make a more meaningful difference?
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- Entrepreneurship
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IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in massive social sustainability drive
IKEA is to open production centres in refugee camps in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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- employment, manufacturing, refugees
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