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Buy More and Better Bednets for the Money, Says New Report
On World Malaria Day, a new report analysis the anti-malarial bednet market and concludes that we could get better value, more innovation and even more nets from the same amount of funds.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: A New Model for Investment in African Healthcare
Despite rapid growth, healthcare investment in Africa continues to lag well behind other sectors. There is little private investment and/or risk capital available for most of Africa. But according to Onno Schellekens, managing director of the $50 million euro Investment Fund for Health in Africa and co-founder of the Health Insurance Fund and Medical Credit Fund, this can be changed.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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Investing in Social Enterprise: Lessons from the 2012 Sankalp Summit
Imagine you have devoted the last three years of your life to coming up with a new innovative enterprise to meet the needs of the poor. You came up with the idea, worked tirelessly to prove the concept and put together the best team that you could find. Now imagine that you have 3 minutes to pitch years’ of work to a panel of impact investors who could help you take your business to the next level. This is exactly what a group of four budding social enterprises had to do at the Fourth Annual Sankalp Impact Investing Summit
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Tackling the Challenges of Urban Sanitation: A Social Enterprise Model
A micro franchise initiative founded by SC Johnson in Nairobi aims to improve levels of sanitation in low-income communities.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micro-health Insurance Scheme for Poor on Test
A microfinance institution has started piloting a micro-health insurance scheme as an 'alternative' mode of health financing for the Bangladeshi poor to help them overcome the cruel cycle of poverty and illness.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development
Last year, USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID jointly launched Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development to find tools and approaches for mothers and newborns in their most vulnerable hours. In the second round of the challenge, for which entries are due April 2, donor partners expect to award up to $13 million in as many as 30 grants.
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- Health Care
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Need Blind: Vision Spring and Warby Parker Shake Up Eyewear With Impact
Social enterprises Warby Parker and VisionSpring are finding innovative ways to bring glasses to people who can’t afford huge markups. VisionSpring, a nonprofit social enterprise, focuses on selling low-cost glasses to people earning between $1 and $4 per day. Warby Parker, a for-profit B-Corp, sells affordable eyewear in the domestic market while donating a pair of frames to VisionSpring for each pair it sells.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Word is Bond : At Duke’s Sustainable Business Summit, Excitement Around Social Bonds and Online Impact Investing Platforms
The theme of the 2012 Sustainable Business and Social Innovation (SBSI) summit at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business was Disrupting the Status Quo. Indeed, there was much discussion about new models to change business as usual in education, health and overcoming the mismatch between the size of social enterprises and the vastness of investing funds.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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