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The Science of Dirt (Part 1): Entrepreneur building and selling affordable, electricity-free water filters made with clay, sand and sawdust in India
While traveling in India, Chandrasekaran Jayaraman saw firsthand that most villages did not have good drinking water or good toilets. After determining that the problem was fixable, he set to work refining the government’s patented technology to make water micro-filters using clay. This is the first of a two-part Q&A.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- manufacturing, product design, scale
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Market Dynamics, Your Time Has Come: NextBillion Health Care launches a new initiative; let the debate begin
Market dynamics is emerging as a key to delivering health care to the base of the pyramid. NextBillion Health Care is launching a new initiative in recognition of that fact.
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- Health Care
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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact
Social enterprise in the U.S. is a fast-growing, but fragmented, movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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Investing in Nature: New Sources of Capital
Two hundred and fifty billion dollars: that's the gap between the estimated need to support global conservation efforts and what's currently devoted to these activities annually, according to a recent study.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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The Rx for Doctor, Entrepreneur Communication: Improving global health care includes speaking the same language
Both physicians and entrepreneurs, hopefully, are interested in improving the lives of the medically underserved around the world. To make this happen, the entrepreneurs need the doctors and the doctors need the entrepreneurs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- scale, skill development
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NexThought Monday: A strategic approach to scaling impact
By 2017, agriculture-focused TechnoServe aims to double its 2012 impact to directly benefit at least one million families a year and create cumulative financial benefits of more than $500 million for program participants. TechnoServe’s Simon Winter explains how, and provides insights on what other market-focused NGOs can do to increase their impact.
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- Agriculture
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- scale
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OPINION: Managing Finances Well is Key to Africa’s Success
More than ever, African governments need to make the region attractive to investors to shore up the growth path the continent has embarked upon.
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- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sankalp Forum 2014: Lessons for the India/Africa Connection
One of the key themes at the Sankalp Unconvention this year: How do we make all this ‘talk’ of Africa-India collaboration real? Over various roundtables and conversations, some key themes emerged on whether we are doing all that is necessary to foster collaboration between social enterprises in India and Africa.
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- Uncategorized
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- scale