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Impact Measurement Mastery: 5 Lessons Learned Working With Colombian Entrepreneurs
New Ventures, which supports environmentally-focused SMEs in six emerging markets, recently hosted its first impact measurement workshop for social entrepreneurs in Bogota, Colombia. Entrepreneurs learned to measure and report impact, and New Ventures improved how to frame the value of impact measurement. Check out the five lessons of the workshop.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation: An Innovators’ Call to Action
Are you or someone you know an innovator who is doing developing technological solutions to pressing problems in developing countries? If you know someone who is building a better life for people in need, then they might be the next $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation winner for the 2012 competition.
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- Uncategorized
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Updated: The Ugly Truth About Famines
The drought, which spurred the UN to declare a famine for the first time since 1984, has affected the entire Horn of Africa, including much of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. And yet the only areas where the UN has officially declared a "famine" are two pockets of southern Somalia controlled by the al-Shabab militia.
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- Education, Health Care
