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Corporate Engagement and Building Effective Partnerships with BoP Organizations
I highlighted the potential for big change from projects initiated by passionate employees (social intrapreneurs) involving their organization in a deep, meaningful way in Base of the Pyramid markets. This article dives deeper into this subject, and suggests four principles to guide how you go about developing these partnerships.
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Bolstering Microfinance with Education and Strong Partnerships
Combining microfinance and business training is relatively new concept that has recently been gaining momentum in the microfinance community. While other organizations, including banner MFIs, have introduced BDS into their work portfolios, Lumana Credit is an organization that ingrains this philosophy in the core of their business practices.
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How Do We Build the Inclusive Business Partnerships for the Future?
Recent reports provide examples of fruitful partnerships that lead to successful market-based approaches to fighting poverty. How did these partnerships get started? How does a corporation arrive in a BoP community and establish relationships with local actors? When will we move from advice to research and toolkits to establish partnerships?
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Agora Partnerships and Heroes of Development
As I learn more about entrepreneurship and job creation efforts I am increasingly convinced that we need a broader range of tools than either microcredit or social venture funding typically offer.? Recently Agora Partnerships caught my eye when they and their founder Ben Powell were awarded a Draper Richards Fellowship.
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Job: Agora Partnerships Development Director
Position: Development Director Location: Washington, DC Organization: Agora Partnerships is a non profit, social mission organization dedicated to providing talented entrepreneurs in developing countries with the tools, networks, and financing necessary to launch successful, socially...
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Ricardo Teran of Agora Partnerships Identifies the Marks of a Successful Entrepreneur
Last week WRI hosted a meeting of the International Private Enterprise Group (IPEG), featuring a guest from Agora Partnerships. Ricardo Teran, Managing Director of Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua, delivered a presentation focused on venture finance and small business development in Central...
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IPEG Follow-Up: Aman Bhandari and Agora Partnerships
Last Thursday, the DC chapter of the International Private Enterprise Group (IPEG) met at the Science Club in downtown Washington, DC. About 30 people were on hand to hear presentations from Aman Bhandari, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland and Beth Boomgard of AED’s...
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Report on the 2nd Int’l Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Many regions in the world lack the water and energy services they need to function and progress. The Second International Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development, held in Marrakech on 21-23 March discussed partnerships as a vehicle to deliver these services. The WBCSD was invited by...
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