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Breaking Out of the Social Impact Conference Rut: Five Ways to Design a Truly Impactful Event
Have you ever been to a conference and felt a strange sense of déjà vu – an uncanny feeling that you've seen the sessions, read the buzzwords and heard all the stories before? Even for passionate, insightful members of the social impact community, it's easy to fall into the “same old” when planning a conference. Madhu Viswanathan at the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative at the University of Illinois shares tips for fellow changemakers who seek to avoid this rut when organizing their own gatherings.
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Winners of 2018 Resolution Social Venture Challenge announced
A total of 30 teams of Mastercard Foundation Scholars gathered in Kigali, Rwanda to compete in the challenge, for a fellowship that includes seed funding, mentorship, and access to a network of innovators seeking global change through high impact community projects.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet The Finalists Of The Social Entrepreneurship Competition With A $1 Million Prize
From food safety to education, the Hult Prize by Hult International Business School has generated 200,000 startup ideas to solve today's most pressing social issues.
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Social entrepreneurs can change the world – but these 6 things are holding us back
The real power of social entrepreneurs is their talent for identifying market failures that are holding humanity back, and their skill in tailoring and implementing solutions
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Press release: Australia, UNDP, PhilDev launch mentorship for Filipino social enterprises
UNDP Philippines Country Director Titon Mitra said the partnership "will support some of the most innovative Filipino social enterprises in their early stage of business development to become sufficiently ‘bankable’ so that they can attract funding from impact investors."
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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Filipino social enterprise: ‘when there’s coffee served, there’s less fighting’
Filipino social enterprise Coffee for Peace is mediating disputes in the Philippines’ most conflicted region by harnessing the power of coffee as a communication tool.
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- Asia Pacific
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Report: India will have nearly a million millionaires by 2027
The country will have 950,000 millionaires by 2027, up almost 190% from 330,000 last year, a recent report by Johannesburg-based market research group New World Wealth predicts.
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Beyond Inclusion: How Mission-Based Small Business Lenders are Evolving Their Definition of Impact
While microfinance institutions have grown rapidly around the globe, so too has economic inequality in developed countries. More than two decades ago, Accion in the U.S. and Opportunity Fund responded by adapting their microlending model from low-income markets to the United States. Gina Harman and Luz Urrutia, the respective CEOs of those two organizations, share new research on small loans have impacted revenues and profits for borrowing entrepreneurs, most of whom lacked the financing and resources they needed to start or grow their businesses.
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