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Weekly Roundup 3/6/13: Getting ready for Sankalp 2013
By linking up with Villgro’s UnConvention, Intellecap’s Sankalp Forum later this month is the largest conference of its kind in India, and perhaps anywhere else in Asia.
Considering the rapid scale up of the conference, I wanted to find out what Sankalp would like like in 2013. For more I spoke with Sankalp Forum Director Aparajita Agrawal. The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Looking Beyond Impact: Seeking Transformational Change’.- Categories
- Social Enterprise
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5 Things Social Enterprises Should Learn About Scale From Big Companies
To make a true difference, social enterprises have to get big--something they’re not often prepared to do.
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Subscribing to Better Health: How Sevamob’s model helps patients – and its bottom line
When people think of innovative business models in BoP health care, they often think of delivery or supply chain innovations. But there’s also a wealth of experimentation on the health financing side, involving everything from micro-insurance to subscription fees. Sevamob, an Indian social enterprise, uses a subscription model. In this Q&A, Shelley Saxena, Sevamob’s founder, discusses the advantages and challenges of this approach.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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New apps transforming remote parts of Africa
For generations, breeding cows in the rural highlands of Kenya has hinged on knowledge and experience passed down from parents to children. But Mercy Wanjiku is unlike most farmers. Her most powerful tool is her cell phone, and a text messaging service called iCow.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Connecting The Worlds Of For-Profit And Nonprofit For Greater Good
We live in a world where for-profits and not-for-profits occupy separate spheres, and we often focus more on their differences than on their similarities.
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EcoZoom on Building a Market for Clean Cookstoves: What it takes for consumers to invest for long-term savings
Global Envision interviewed Chief of Operations Phil Ferranto on the challenges EcoZoom faces in convincing people to invest in clean cookstoves, developing a market for cookstoves in developing economies, and what sets EcoZoom apart as a socially-minded for-profit business.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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Sheetal Mehta Walsh, on the Rise of Social Entrepreneurship
Sheetal Mehta Walsh, is the founder of Shanti Life, a unique microfinance platform serving the poor in Gujarat villages and slums so that they can create sustainable businesses.
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- South Asia
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Serving the poor, but operating like a business
At a time when public sector resources are limited, and every philanthropic dollar must go further, there is a robust debate in the international development community about how to achieve development goals with less money.
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- Agriculture