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Looking For the Next Big Thing: New Partnership Builds Fintech Ecosystems in Four Emerging Start-up Markets
A new partnership between Village Capital and MetLife Foundation seeks to build the fintech ecosystems in four emerging start-up markets: Poland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine. The idea is to find, and then support, entrepreneurs working specifically in fintech who have the potential to solve real-world problems.
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- Technology
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- financial inclusion, fintech, scale
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Press Release: Calvert Foundation Announces Capital Aggregation Investment Business
Calvert Foundation today announced a new business line, Capital Aggregation, which expands Calvert Foundation's existing services to more actively aggregate and facilitate capital to meet the evolving needs of the communities they serve.
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- Investing
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Six Promising Approaches for Scaling Health Care in Low-Resource Settings
Many health care interventions in low-resource settings are able to achieve initial impact, but the challenges are so great that few models have the potential to scale. However, Nakul Goswami, associate vice president of Intellecap Innovation Labs, has identified a few innovators showing promise. He explores why they work, and what other health care providers serving vulnerable communities can learn from their models.
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- Health Care
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Agents Beat Mobile? Intriguing Research from MIX on Alternative Delivery Channels in Banking
Many financial service providers look to technology to enable new means of distribution and achieve universal access, but agent banking remains the most commonly deployed alternative delivery channel today – and arguably the most effective. To achieve scale, the authors say, providers should analyze each channel and develop the right strategies for their desired business and social outcomes. A webinar set for Thursday is designed to help.
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- Uncategorized
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Got a Great Idea? Don’t Start Your Own Nonprofit: A Q&A with Dr. Jane Aronson
Dr. Jane Aronson, a pediatrician and president and CEO of the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, will deliver a keynote address, "Scaling an Idea: Innovation at its Best," at Unite for Sight's Global Health & Innovation Conference this weekend at Yale University. In this Q&A, she shares some valuable lessons for nonprofits and the young people who hope to join (or start) them, including where NGOs typically go wrong and the problem of falling in love with your own great idea.
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- Health Care
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With New Partner, Wello Rolling Down ‘the Fastest Path to Scale’
Social enterprise Wello today announced it will license sales and manufacturing of its main product, the WaterWheel, to Mumbai-based Nilkamal Limited in India and Sri Lanka. The publicly traded Nilkamal is one of Asia's manufacturers and sellers of injection mold plastic furniture and other plastic home goods. We hear from Cynthia Koenig, founder and CEO of Wello, about what the deal means not only for the for-profit company, but also for other social enterprises facing the perennial struggle of scaling their products.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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From Beneficiary to Customer: 40K Transitions from School-building Charity to Edtech Social Enterprise
It took five years for 40K to build its first school in India. Over that time, the organization learned a lot about the key barriers that were preventing quality education from proliferating in rural areas. Over the next two years, 40K transformed from a school-building charity to an edtech social enterprise. Clary Castrission, founder and CEO, explains why, and how the transition is progressing.
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- Education, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Omidyar Network invests $2.9M in new Latin American Alliance for Civic Technology to accelerate and scale innovation across the region
Alliance to be run by Fundación Avina and will be the next iteration of the Accelerator Fund for Civic Innovation - the key funder of civic tech innovation in Latin America.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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- impact investing, scale
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