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Conscious Business, Crowdfunding and Social Impact Investing
Crowdfunding thought leader Rose Spinelli and Richard Branson Award Winner Shayan Nahrvar, CEO of Raise5.com, were ready to talk about funding in the new capitalism at the Conscious Business Network last week.
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The Globalization of Giving
When Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) was first conceived in Silicon Valley a decade ago, newly wealthy, problem-focused entrepreneurs had seized the opportunity to use their knowledge, networks, and finances to advance the social good globally.
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African Farmers Celebrate Earth Day By Saving The World
Storms are getting more violent, seasonal patterns are shifting, and the weather is seemingly harder to predict.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Grassroot-level innovations may hold the key to global challenges
Development professionals should help spread the ideas that are effective in solving problems but often remain in obscurity.
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A Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
For those who have been working in the field of social entrepreneurship for a decade or more, as we have at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2013 is starting to feel like a watershed year.
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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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AfDB Provides $38m To Aid Entrepreneurship, Job Creation In Rwanda
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is contributing $38 million to boost entrepreneurship and job creation in Rwanda.
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10 Things I Learned At Skoll World Forum 2013
The 10th annual Skoll World Forum, which brought together several hundred of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs to Oxford, wrapped up last week.
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