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Weekly Roundup – 6/21/14: Impact sourcing gains, a ‘herd mentality’ in impact investing and what Tesla’s patent giveaway can teach social biz
In the weekly roundup, some increased buzz around impact sourcing, charting a ‘herd mentality’ for India’s impact investing community and what social entrepreneurs might learn from Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla will give away its patented tech secrets.
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- Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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Njambre and Arbusta: A mini case study in impact sourcing, co-creation in Latin America
When we created Njambre, a social enterprise accelerator in Buenos Aires, Our biggest added value comes from engineering things from the start: identifying a social problem, designing the solution, recruiting the entrepreneurs to lead the start-up and partnering with them. That’s what we did with Arbusta, which we believe is the first impact sourcing company in South America.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Impact Sourcing: What do we know?
Impact Sourcing is a global opportunity to employ high potential but disadvantaged people in the outsourcing sector. The practice has the potential to reach a $20 billion market by 2015. Here’s a summary of a vast array of research charting the growth and the potential.
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Impact Sourcing: How combining work and study ends the cycle of poverty for good
When we launched Digital Divide Data as a social enterprise in Cambodia in 2001, we quickly realized that providing work opportunities to disadvantaged high school graduates was not enough. In time, we saw that our work-study participants were able to access new professional opportunities and earn higher incomes. Twelve years later, we hope this impact can be scaled up by our organization and others to include many more people and communities around the world.
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Drafting a Plan for Impact Sourcing: Identifying the Key Initiatives to Scale and Sustain Impact Sourcing
Thirty-one experts from all over the world involved in the Impact Sourcing sector wrestled with this intriguing and challenging question over five days at the Bellagio Impact Sourcing Conference. The five-day conference was convened by the Rockefeller Foundation and facilitated by the William Davidson Institute last month at the foundation’s conference center in Bellagio, Italy.
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A Shared Vision for Impact Sourcing: The Rockefeller Foundation gathering sets an agenda for supply, demand and infrastructure
The Rockefeller Foundation recently hosted stakeholders from major outsourcing destinations and a range of geographic regions at its Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss how to scale the Impact Sourcing sector. This was the first time critical players representing different parts of the industry came together to articulate a shared vision of how the outsourcing sector can create a new paradigm by placing social impact as key part of its overall value proposition.
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Crowdscience: 10 Must Do’s to Generate Innovative, Catalytic, and Disruptive Ideas… Everytime
Last fall, President Bill Clinton and TIME magazine named the Hult Prize one of the top five ideas changing the world, recognizing its innovative platform that engages millennials worldwide to create viable social enterprises.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Technology
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Rockefeller Foundation To Pump $97 Million Into African Digital Jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that it will pledge $97 million to create jobs in the digital field in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications technology (ICT) enabled sectors in the continent.
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