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The Most-Viewed, Most-Shared NextBillion Posts for July
July’s most popular posts dug into the how-to of selling new technology products to low-income customers, the case for closer collaboration between microfinance and health care industries, and why philanthropic organizations could and should be the glue that holds the social enterprise sector together.
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Ebola crisis provides glimpse into Samaritan’s Purse, SIM
Samaritan’s Purse and SIM USA were instrumental in the evacuation of two U.S. missionaries from West Africa. These religious relief groups maintain a low profile in the U.S. but are often on the front line of public health crises. Health organizations and leaders of affected areas are also working to contain the deadly outbreak. Here are the key players.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Few Simple Tricks Make Starting A Business Overseas Cheap And Easy
Zoe Cohen produces her Zoko Bags from Kenya. Here's how she got her start as a destination entrepreneur.
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‘While the US may be late to the party, it has a lot to offer Africa’
Africa offers US multinationals a compelling trade and investment opportunity thanks to the rapid economic growth rates being experienced across the continent along with burgeoning population growth and increasing urbanisation, according to South African-based Standard Bank.
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PRESS RELEASE: USAID and Rockefeller Foundation Announce $100 Million Global Resilience Partnership in Africa and Asia
?WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced today a $100 million Global Resilience Partnership that lays out a bold new vision for building resilience to chronic stresses and increasing shocks in communities across Africa and Asia.
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- Technology
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Impact Investing’s Image Problem
Steve Schueth, president of First Affirmative Financial Network, offered an analogy that made the usual invest-to-make-money-first-and-then-be-philanthropic-later approach sound something like a Viking raid.
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Banking For The Poor: Will This Be Bill Gates’ Greatest Philanthropic Achievement?
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has given away more than $28 billion, comfortably making him the world’s greatest living philanthropist.
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Buffett gives record $2.1 billion donation to Gates Foundation
Warren Buffett, the second-richest person in the United States, made his largest single charitable contribution ever when he donated $2.1 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- philanthropy