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Weekly Roundup: 2-19-12 – Going Beyond ‘Potential’ in Southeast Asia
There seems to be no lack of enthusiasm in the potential for China and Southeast Asia as fertile ground for a social enterprise sector. By launching the Impact Ventures Accelerator Program, LGT Venture Philanthropy hopes to go beyond ‘potential’ toward establishing a new a network for cultivating enterprises in the region.
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Scaling up Environmental Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies – Framing the Discussion
Although environmental entrepreneurship continues to hold great promise for sustainable development, it also faces great challenges from an overall market perspective. To find some answers to these challenges, we interviewed a number of pioneers in environmental entrepreneurship development.
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E+Co Announces Plans to Scale Up Clean Energy Investments
E+Co, the non-profit leader in clean energy investing in small and medium enterprises in emerging markets, announced today that it will phase out its innovations unit to solely focus on and scale up clean energy investments in developing markets.
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Weekly Roundup: 2-12-12 – ROI (Return on Impact)
Credit Suisse Research Institute, in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, recently released “Investing for Impact: How social entrepreneurship is redefining the meaning of return." It’s a detailed yet eminently readable report on the state of play.
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Supranational and Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Best Idea of 2011
Although many countries across Latin America are developing monitoring systems for populations living in extreme poverty using mobile technology, the voices of voices and solutions of these communities aren’t always heard. 2011 also saw the birth of collaborative acceleration
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Exploring a Global ‘Local’ Approach to Impact Investment as a ProInspire Fellow
After three great years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I decided to explore opportunities in impact investing. Last summer, I learned about the ProInspire Fellowship and discovered it would be a perfect way to increase my impact and develop as a socially-minded business leader.
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Avoiding the “Hope Bubble”
We must invest in the financial literacy of social entrepreneurs and in the social literacy of investors.
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Weekly Roundup: 2-5-12 – Considering Pakistan, Reconsidering Incubators
This week on NextBillion our contributors tackled a new prescription for microfinance transparency, Pakistan’s potential for social enterprise, a key study in advancing impact investing, and a Q&A with Anurag Jain, who left the corporate world of Dell to launch a new incubator focused on four key sectors.
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