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Report: Reaching deep in low-income markets
This report was developed jointly by Monitor Deloitte, the MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Rockefeller Foundation to help provide transparency and guidance to advance the broader field of funding for businesses serving the deep BOP.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Rockefeller Foundation aims for Impact
Judith Rodin is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which means she’s in charge of giving away one of America’s historic fortunes. One problem: “As rich as Rockefeller” doesn’t mean quite what it once did. The foundation ranks only 16th in assets among U.S. charities, according to the Foundation Center.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Impact Sourcing: What do we know?
Impact Sourcing is a global opportunity to employ high potential but disadvantaged people in the outsourcing sector. The practice has the potential to reach a $20 billion market by 2015. Here’s a summary of a vast array of research charting the growth and the potential.
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- Education, Technology
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A Shared Vision for Impact Sourcing: The Rockefeller Foundation gathering sets an agenda for supply, demand and infrastructure
The Rockefeller Foundation recently hosted stakeholders from major outsourcing destinations and a range of geographic regions at its Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss how to scale the Impact Sourcing sector. This was the first time critical players representing different parts of the industry came together to articulate a shared vision of how the outsourcing sector can create a new paradigm by placing social impact as key part of its overall value proposition.
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- Education, Technology
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Rockefeller Foundation To Pump $97 Million Into African Digital Jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that it will pledge $97 million to create jobs in the digital field in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications technology (ICT) enabled sectors in the continent.
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Rockefeller And Tony Elumelu Foundation Launch African Impact Fund
The Rockefeller Foundation and theTony Elumelu Foundation, founded by Nigerian philanthropist Tony Elumelu, have launched an impact investment fund for Africa.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Customer Loyalty for Social Impact
With pay-as-you-go plans being relatively inexpensive, the poor in both rural and urban settings are able to afford the conveniences of a basic mobile phone. They can use their mobile phone to take care of business-related activities, and to access a growing number of mobile applications that make routine tasks (like personal banking) less cumbersome. For the urban poor in particular, mobile technology has become a useful tool in daily life.
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- Financial Inclusion, Technology
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Special Series (Part 6): BPO for the BoP : Thoughts on moving impact sourcing forward
Impact Sourcing (IS) has the potential to alleviate poverty for millions of people in a sustainable manner through job creation in the formal economy. Each piece was intended to shed light on a different facet of Impact Sourcing. The insights were derived from a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and performed by the William Davidson Institute (WDI).
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- Technology
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