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Press Release: Mary Kay, in Collaboration With UN Agencies, Launches Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator
The Accelerator will offer a guided digital curriculum supplemented by on-the-ground training and mentorship. In addition, it will serve as an advocacy platform to eliminate entrepreneurial roadblocks for women, ranging from digital literacy to legal reform—enabling women to fully participate in the growth of their local and national economies.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- accelerators, entrepreneurship, gender equality, SDGs, UNDP, Women
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‘You Hired me as a Ballerina and Now Want Me to be a Basketball Player’: Hard Truths About Evolving Talent at Scale
Does your talent strategy look the same as it did a year ago? If it does, you're probably doing it wrong – especially if your organization is scaling. According to Kimberly Langsam at CASE at Duke University, a growing organization's talent strategies and support infrastructure must constantly evolve. She explores why talent is one of the key challenges of scale, and shares insights from social entrepreneurs and others featured in a new report from the Scaling Pathways series.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Unleashing the Social Intrapreneur: Why Organizations Should Look Inward to Boost Global Development and Economic Sustainability
The term “intrapreneurship” has been around for decades, but the concept itself – which refers to practicing entrepreneurship within a larger enterprise or organization – is more important than ever. Authors at IDEX Global Fellowship explore why this entrepreneurial mindset is needed within both traditional and social businesses, and how impact-focused intrapreneurship is not only changing employee management and retention, but also benefiting the broader world.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Viewpoint: Venture Financing For The Bottom 99.98% Of The Pyramid… And When You Don’t Know Where You Rank
This top-down view of the venture capitalist (VC) works for about 20/100,000 entrepreneurs. But even these 20 could keep control of the venture and of the wealth created by delaying VC – and by letting the VCs come to them, as Jan Koum of WhatsApp did.
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- Investing
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Is Government the Key to Scaling up Graduation Programs? Results From an Impact Evaluation in Latin America
Graduation programs fight poverty by offering participants the tools and resources they need to create a viable livelihood. But while these programs have shown impressive results, they're costly to bring to scale. Tatiana Rincón and Adriana Insaurralde at Fundación Capital explore whether the graduation approach can be rolled out by governments without compromising its impact, based on evidence from a ground-breaking impact assessment.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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Storytelling as a Strategy: What Entrepreneurs Can Gain from Crafting a Compelling Narrative
As Steven Spielberg once said, cinema’s power of persuasion is shown by getting “everybody to clap at the same time.” Likewise, successful entrepreneurs must also tell stories with persuasion and purpose, says Ami Dalal at FINCA Ventures. She explores how effective storytelling can help an enterprise build its brand and attract investors, customers and talent, and shares two essential approaches to help early-stage companies craft compelling narratives.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Investing, WASH
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Africa’s Innovators Say Their Scrappy Skills Are Needed to Fix an Unlikely Problem—Politics
More often than not, bad policies rather than bad luck have hindered the potential of these innovations and their ability to help more people.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Who Owns Poverty?: A Q&A with Fundación Paraguaya Founder and CEO Martin Burt
Why do so many anti-poverty efforts fail? And what should we do differently? In his new book, "Who Owns Poverty," Fundación Paraguaya founder and CEO Martin Burt explores those questions from the viewpoint of the real experts: poor families themselves. He presents some key insights from the book in this Q&A – and the book is available to NextBillion readers at a discount (or as a free e-book)!
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance
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