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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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IDB Launches First of its Kind BoP LA, Caribbean Forum
With millions in new projects and large multinationals like PepsiCo and CMEX launching new BoP ventures and markets quickly maturing, Latin America is off and running. The Inter-American Development Bank decided the time was right to host the first forum on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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What Does It Take to Build a Market? (An India Session @ SOCAP Europe)
How big can impact investing become? When looking for an answer (and hoping to find an encouraging one), it?s best examine a big country - like India. That’s precisely what did McKinsey and Omidyar Network did. The two organizations presented a BoP market study at SOCAP/Europe revealing a bullish outlook despite latent demand.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Why Should Your Company Engage the BoP?
Why do corporations engage with the base of the pyramid? There appear to be several distinctly different answers to this question. My conversations with corporate leaders hoping to pursue social impact and new market growth in BoP markets reveal a frequent lack of clarity about not just how to do it, but more importantly, why they should do it.
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- Impact Assessment
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Tapping into the Talent Pool Within the BoP
Ashoka’s Changemakers, along with the Opportunity Project from eBay Foundation, is focused on employment and income generation for vulnerable populations via its open competition for systematic/disruptive market-based innovations. You have until June 15 to submit your ideas. Read on for more details on the competition and Tuesday’s Twitter chat.
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- Social Enterprise
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New Techniques, Technology Helping Operation ASHA to Expand
Operation ASHA is a community-based program founded in the Delhi slums to fight the spread of antibiotic resistant TB strains by incentivizing counselors to closely monitor progress of patients and ensure they finish courses of DOTS. They have been growing at a dizzying pace with plans to expand to Cambodia, Morocco, Ghana, and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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The BoP In Pictures: One Entrepreneur’s Story
Angelina Mwenzi is one of a few locals of Silanga Village, which is in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, empowered by Peepoople AB, a Swedish social enterprise that launched a pilot project in Silanga in October. She?s built her own small business out of The Peepoo, a personal, single use toilet that turns human waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Not Just Good or Bad … But Making It Better: Ideas to Impact
The conversation around BoP ventures should not be about whether to launch them, but how to build better ones, WDI Research Fellow Ted London told attendees at UC Berkeley’s Ideas Impact (I2I) - a collaborative event with the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) last month. He provided three stages to drive BoP venture development.
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- Impact Assessment
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