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Ashoka’s Drayton: Education and the Future Marketplace
Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton views the more than 2,700 Ashoka Fellows as a sensitive Geiger counter for detecting big economic and social shifts. He sees critical gaps in empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making being taught to young people. The "parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape," he says.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit: An Investor’s Take on One-for-One Models
There is one model that has grabbed significantly more mainstream attention than the rest: the "one-for-one." TOMS Shoes, the best-known example, gives shoes to the shoeless when you buy a pair for yourself. But as an investor have a new set of concerns about whether and how one-for-one models can become sustainable, scalable organizations.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Tough Love for Impact Investors – the Europe Session at SOCAP
Social investors are on the hunt for "investable" social enterprises to fill their "deal pipeline." But do all these enterprises want (and need) investment? In the SOCAP/Europe session on "How to Fill the Deal Pipeline in Europe: Changing our Models to Fit the Continent," staff from Ashoka and the Schwab Foundation searched for answers
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Ashoka, Bamboo Finance, Canopus Fdn. Launch Solar Energy Fund
Press Release: Three of the world’s leading organisations supporting social enterprise for development today announced that they are forming a partnership to launch the ’Oasis Energy - Solar for All Fund’, which will invest in companies bringing affordable solar power to markets that are without access to electricity. Ashoka , the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs, and the Canopus Foundation , whi...
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Opening a New Energy Map, Featuring Top Trends from 42 Social Enterprises
On Tuesday, Ayllu and the Center for Science, Technology and Society in (CSTS) at Santa Clara University launched the Energy Map, an interactive tool for navigating market solutions to energy poverty. Although the map is focused on energy, it is relevant to any social enterprise operating in BoP markets.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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An Insider’s Look at the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition
Exploring the business case studies that impressed the judges in the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition. Each of the winning case studies challenges students, educators, and practitioners to think through and tackle the most relevant questions facing the social enterprise world today.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Less Hungry, More Human: A Marketing Perspective to Fighting Malnutrition
As the World Food Programme launches a glitzy new fundraising campaign called A Billion for A Billion, maybe it could learn from P&G’s 3D White Collection, which was the most successful non-foods new product launch in 2011, with over $151 million in sales. While the latter may not be particularly noble, marketers are clearly doing something right.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday: Dealing With the Reality of Non-Fundable Zones
While the onset of Non-Fundable Zones is difficult to quantify, given the limited funding data of social enterprises, the discussion raised some points we’d like to pose to the community to reflect and comment on. First of all: Which dollars skew which way, to whom and to where?
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- Social Enterprise