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Microenterprise graduation leads to higher consumption, asset ownership
“Helping the ultra-poor escape extreme poverty is a global priority, but policymakers are faced with competing ideas about the best way to accomplish this,” said Village Enterprise’s CEO Dianne Calvi.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Wheaton College receives $10 million donation to expand its social entrepreneurship programs
The pledge establishes an endowed professorship in social entrepreneurship, provides money for entrepreneurial education programming and launches a fundraising challenge that will help pay for the construction of a dedicated space for the college's existing programs in social innovation.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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Opinion: Everyone a Changemaker
Bill Drayton invented the term “social entrepreneur” and founded Ashoka, the organization that supports 3,500 of them in 93 countries. He’s a legend in the nonprofit world, so I went to him this week to see if he could offer some clarity and hope in discouraging times. He did not disappoint.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Press release: Community Housing Capital Announces $15 Million Impact Credit Facility with Calvert Impact Capital
“We have had a long-term, successful relationship with Community Housing Capital and this investment continues our support of its mission to create and preserve affordable housing,” said Lucas Pappas, Director of Investments for Calvert Impact Capital. “We are excited to bring new qualified investors into the impact investing space and connect them more directly with strong mission-driven organizations like Community Housing Capital.”
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- Investing
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- North America
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Social Enterprise Bean Voyage Giving Women Farmers More Control, More Income
A young social enterprise nonprofit called Bean Voyage is seeking to dramatically increase the incomes of women farmers by cutting middlemen from the supply chain, improving quality and leveraging an e-commerce platform for sales in key consumer markets.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
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- Latin America
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Bono’s Fund Makes Its First Fintech Investment, Backing Acorns
Financial technology startups are grabbing a greater share of capital from investors. Now Bono is getting in on the action.
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In Hyderabad, Indian Entrepreneurs Size Up Ivanka Trump
Trump noted that for the first time, women made up "the majority of the 1,500 entrepreneurs selected to attend this summit."
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- South Asia
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The company that turned African telcos into insurance brokers
In the early 2000s, UK-born Richard Leftley spent two weeks doing voluntary work in Kitwe, northern Zambia. During his stay, he met a woman who described her life as “a game of snakes and ladders” – no matter how hard she worked to get herself out of poverty, she kept finding herself right back where she started every time life rolled the dice against her.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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