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Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems
Across Africa, governments and development actors are investing in youth entrepreneurship, with funders and international NGOs increasingly partnering with local non-profits to develop better support ecosystems for young entrepreneurs. But as Grégory Valadié and Juan Carlos Thomas at TechnoServe explain, many of these local organizations face limitations in capacity, systems and tools. They explore four ways to maximize these partnerships’ impact by complementing their direct implementation work with systems-level solutions, and leveraging institutions that already reach young people at scale.
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- Education
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LSE’s 100X Impact Announces a New Cohort of Future ‘Social Unicorns’
LSE will provide over £2.4 million in unrestricted catalytic funding to the cohort, alongside access to 100x’s accelerator programme and world-class expertise to help scale their impact.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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TechnoServe Will Create Enterprise Development Academy to Boost Small Business Growth and Job Creation Around the World
The initiative to strengthen local enterprise support organizations is expected to benefit at least 50,000 businesses across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Evidential: A New Experiment Engine for the Social Sector
Jointly developed by The Agency Fund and IDinsight to enable rigorous, real-time learning.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Global
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The Global Environmental Award Hit by Accusations of Greenwashing
The B Corp scheme was founded in 2006, and now has more than 9,600 members across 102 countries and 161 industries.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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- ESG, greenwashing, nonprofits
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Viewpoint: Word Jumble: When Nonprofits Talk Fancy, America Tunes Out
Our language is packed with elite-sounding jargon. It is ineffective — and dangerous — amid today’s heightened distrust of institutions and growing hostility to the sector.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Press Release: Humentum and MzN International Partner to Strengthen NGO Capacity Against Geopolitical Headwinds
"This partnership is more than the sum of its parts. It is a practical response to the growing need for NGOs to adapt, modernise, and become more sustainable. "
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Viewpoint: The Collapse of Foreign Aid Is a Wake-up Call – And an Opportunity
Africa must now pivot from dependence toward sustainable, investment-based capital that fosters growth, accountability, and dignity.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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