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Taking Inspiration from Innovation: Key Insights from Eight Entrepreneurs Making an Impact in Emerging Markets
Whether they're working to increase smallholder farmers’ profits, promote water or sanitation solutions, or address other key needs in emerging markets, social entrepreneurs tend to face common challenges. That's why they must learn from each other if they hope to flourish. Brigit Helms at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship shares insights from eight entrepreneurs in Miller Center’s Clean Water and Climate-Smart Agriculture program, who discuss their innovations, the challenges they’ve overcome and the lessons they’ve learned.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, WASH
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Press Release: LGT Venture Philanthropy and IDinsight Launch New Data Readiness Tool
The free M&E Health Check tool will help social organizations maximize data use for impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Lessons in Resilience: What an Impact Investor Learned from an Entrepreneur Who Refused to Give Up
Entrepreneurship is a long game, and winning often comes down to grit. One case in point: Arindam Dasgupta, the co-founder and CEO of Tamul Plates, who has built a thriving business in India despite the historic challenges of recent years. Sachi Shenoy at Calidris and Steve Schwartz at the World Economic Forum were early investors in Tamul Plates through Upaya Social Ventures, the impact investing firm they co-founded. They discuss what Dasgupta has taught them about the qualities and practices investors should look for when seeking resilient entrepreneurs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Analysis: Supporting Social Enterprises to Understand Their Impact
Social enterprises are once again on the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum, this time with an emphasis on scaling and partnerships for impact. To support this growth, effective evaluation is key.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Global
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Analysis: How Social Enterprises Offer Big Businesses Pathways to Sustainable Innovations
Social enterprises already partner with business but there is much room for broadening the scope within value chains.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
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- Global
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Just Useful… Or Truly Catalytic? How Entrepreneurs Really View Catalytic Capital — And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
Much of the attention in the impact finance sector tends to go to the stewards of capital — investors, foundations and other funders — most of whom firmly believe that catalytic capital is the type of finance that entrepreneurs value most. But as Bjoern Struewer at Roots of Impact and Jed Emerson at Tiedemann point out, it's unclear if investors' assumptions about the value of catalytic capital align with entrepreneurs’ actual opinions about it. They discuss new research that explores what entrepreneurs really value in this type of financing — and how these structures might be improved.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Mastercard’s Farmpass Reaches One Million Smallholders in India
Mastercard today announced that it has reached the milestone of benefiting over one million smallholder farmers in India through Farm Pass.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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LSE Launches £50 Million Accelerator for “Social Unicorns”
100x Impact Accelerator, a new £50m global initiative dedicated to shaping a new generation of “social unicorns”, launches its first call for applications.
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- Entrepreneurship
- Region
- Global
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