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Stanford, De Beers launch $3m African entrepreneurs initiative
The Stanford Graduate School of Business and De Beers Group have announced a three-year, US$3 million partnership aimed at empowering young entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa through two new educational programs.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Influential Health Fund Reboots Its Search for a Leader
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that it is reopening its search for a new executive director. The fund is influential in global health, disbursing about $5 billion a year to fight the three diseases — a budget more than twice as large as the World Health Organization’s.
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- Health Care
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The Global Good Fund Announces 5th Annual Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs
The Global Good Fund, a social enterprise accelerating the leadership development of high-potential social entrepreneurs tackling the world's greatest challenges, has announced the fifth annual selection of 2017 Global Good Fund Fellows. Increasing its 2016 support of The Global Good Fund Fellowship, this year Johnson & Johnson will sponsor three Fellows who are innovating to solve healthcare challenges.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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A vision for WHO for 2017 and beyond
As I turn the calendar page to January 2017, I am keen to look ahead and examine our health challenges for the coming year and decade - challenges with goals and targets which have been well defined in our United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and especially, in the ‘health goal’ or SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
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- Health Care
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Most Influential Post Nominee: New Paradigm for Leadership – Everyone Leads
In today's complex, interconnected world, operating under the dominant leadership paradigm in society – one in which few lead and everyone else follows – is proving ineffective. In this article, the most popular post on NB in May, Ashoka identifies ways in which leading social entrepreneurs are seeing things differently, enabling them to envision new possibilities. It's in the running for the Most Influential Post of 2016.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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Viewpoint: It’s Time That For-Profits Start Learning From Nonprofits: Here’s How
As cofounder of a firm that helps nonprofits hire leaders, I’m frequently asked for advice on how someone with a strong private-sector track record can make a move to more mission-driven work. These "sector switchers" are frequently armed with somewhat tone-deaf pitches about how they’re ready to "give back," both by doing socially focused work and by teaching the nonprofit sector how to operate more like the private sector. To those of us who’ve been working with nonprofits for years, however, that pitch is alienating.
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- Uncategorized
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- leadership, nonprofit
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Press Release: Accion Welcomes Raza Dean and Nick Talwar to Its Board of Directors
"We are thrilled to welcome Raza Dean and Nick Talwar to the Accion Board of Directors," said Accion Board Chair Diana Taylor. "Both individuals bring unique and extensive experience in the financial services industry."
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- Financial Inclusion
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Are Impact Investing and Women’s Leadership Connected?
As a follower of philanthropy, I am intrigued by leaders who seem to have a fundamentally unique vision. I am also intrigued by the idea that women's perspectives on leadership could be pivotal in tackling big problems in new ways.
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- Investing
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