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Wildlife Works builds business protecting forests, climate
Rangers patrol a dusty forest in southern Kenya, keeping a watchful eye out for poachers.Although they roam near the borders of two national parks, their salaries don't come from the Kenyan government. They're employees of a small Mill Valley company, Wildlife Works.
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- Energy
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- forests, social enterprise
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Social enterprise Findacure aims to unlock new insights into rare diseases
Through his social enterprise Nick Sireau and his team aim to change the field of drug development.
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- Health Care
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Grameenphone secures $345m to widen rural network
Grameenphone is set to receive $345 million funds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, to expand its coverage in rural areas.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Why Profits, Entrepreneurship, And Social Good Are Not Incompatible
Why should poor people receive the most obsolete technologies—when their lives can be impacted the most by advances in technology? Should my education and talent be used to make rich and powerful corporations even more so—or to help those in need? These are questions that Alfredo Zolezzi agonized over after achieving early success as a scientist and entrepreneur.
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- Impact Assessment
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Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Enterprise Is Her Bag
The founder of FEED explains how she turned a simple burlap bag into a powerful tool for fighting world hunger.
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- Health Care
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Bringing Solar To Impoverished Towns, With A Model Straight From The Corporate World
Disillusioned by corporate life, Manuel Aguilar and Juan Rodriguez started Quetsol, an organization that uses business acumen to supply rural Guatemalans with solar power.
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- Energy
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- Latin America
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The difficulty of starting up a social enterprise in a warzone
With youth unemployment across countries like Egypt, Somalia and Syria still hovering between 60% and 70%, there has never been a more relevant time to encourage social entrepreneurship. In some developing countries, where there is no central government stable enough to accept foreign aid, it can be responsible for up to 90% of job creation.
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- Uncategorized
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- North Africa & Near East
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Top tips: how to beat mainstream business rivals
Phil Levermore, managing director of energy supplier Ebico, a social enterprise, advises on how to compete with 'non–social enterprises'
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