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Dasra Philanthropy Week 2014: Urgency in gender equality
Dasra hosted its fifth annual Philanthropy Week from March 5-7. It convened more than 600 prominent philanthropists, corporations and impact investors to catalyze funding to India’s social sector. And as Nilima Achwal explains, Dasra has made a notable strategic shift to focus on adolescent girl empowerment.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Smartphone app reads blood oxygen levels to hospital standards, advances to global obstetrics tests
Private and public investors are injecting $2 million into a Canadian mobile health innovation that offers hope of preventing thousands of deaths and improving the health of expectant mothers, newborns and children throughout the developing world.
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- Health Care
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Turning Africa’s Healthcare Challenges Into Opportunities
Most people are familiar with the problems facing the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa faces: poor infrastructure, a shortage of healthcare workers, a lack of capacity in the existing workforce and substandard quality to name a few. These problems, coupled with inadequate public sector spending on health, have pushed the private sector to the front in the development of the African health sector.
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- Health Care
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How Donated Bicycles Are Helping Save Lives in Africa
Think supporting development means giving hand outs? Think again. Done right, development means giving a hand up. Take for example Aid for Africa member World Bicycle Relief and its recently established Buffalo Bikes Ltd.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Does India Need Its Own ‘Impact’ Investors?
Indian entrepreneurs complain that India’s venture capital scene, particularly for “impact” investments, is limited.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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Is Social Enterprise the “Child Star” of the Sector?
Writing for the Poverty Matters blog at the Guardian, Deborah Doane, the former director of the World Development Movement, calls social entrepreneurs in India “the child star in an otherwise much-maligned space.”
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- Uncategorized
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The White House’s new $65.8M Social Innovation Fund competition is the largest to date
The 2014 competition, which was officially announced this week, will provide up to $65.8 million to grantmakers.
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- Impact Assessment
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From Operating Rooms to Dust Tracks, Part 2: How Operation ASHA moved beyond rhetoric to action
After serving Delhi’s slum dwellers for more than a decade with free surgeries, Dr. Shelly Batra realized her work wasn’t sustainable. That’s when she and Sandeep Ahuja decided to start an organization focused on only one health problem in India: TB.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise