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Guest Post: Seeking High-impact Individuals to be Acumen Fund Summer Associates
Do you want to spend your summer changing the way the world tackles poverty? Do you have what it takes to join the Acumen Fund team? Acumen Fund is seeking high-impact individuals as Summer Associates.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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- jobs, social impact
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In Haiti, the Fonkoze Model of Constant Evolution
At the time of the earthquake, during which 19,000 of its clients saw homes or businesses completely wiped away, Fonkoze had been developing a micro-insurance product as a long-term solution for disaster protection. In the immediate aftermath, the firm began collecting feedback to refine the micro-insurance product before brining it to market.
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- Impact Assessment
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33Needs Turning Ideas into Action
Securities law prevents investment in companies not listed with the SEC, creating a barrier for small and medium-sized businesses from funding. Josh Tetrick decided to literally redefine that negative and turn it into a positive by forming 33Needs, a startup crowd-funding website focused on social entrepreneurs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment, Impact Assessment, Technology
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MIT Global Challenge, Connecting Ideas and Innovators
In 2008, the MIT Public Service Center asked: ’What would it look like if we applied that level of problem-solving to the challenges faced by under-served communities, places where markets are failing to provide basic necessities like clean water, health care, or reliable energy?’ The result is the MIT Global Challenge.
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- Impact Assessment
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The Best Ideas of 2010 – iHub Nairobi
The Nairobi technology community is small, but it’s also behind some of the most exciting examples of realizing the potential of mobile technology in development. The iHub in Nairobi a clubhouse for innovators in the hotbed of mobile innovation that’s most relevant to the majority of mobile phone users in the world.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Best Ideas of 2010: Bringing Change to the Bottom with Change at the Top
If poor governance in places like Africa has been one of the primary impediments to development, national elections there have often provided little cause for hope. But this time, the international community is not playing along.
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- Impact Assessment
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Practical Progress Via the ’Opportunity Collaboration’
In October, the Opportunity Collaboration convened a group of 300 social investors and entrepreneurs to generate a strong cross-pollination of ideas and action for poverty reduction. In a recent interview, Founder and CEO Jonathan C. Lewis provided an update on the OC’s impact and shared some unvarnished views on the state of microfinance.
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- Impact Assessment
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Funding for Inclusive Businesses in Latin America: sitawi?s Perspective
From NextBillion Espa?ol: Funding for Inclusive Business is a major issue. To take a look at the state of this field in Latin America, we consulted with some funds that operate in this region and learned their perspectives. Today we share the interview we did with Leonardo Letelier, CEO of the recently launched Brazilian social fund, sitawi.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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