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Serving the Trillion Dollar BoP Energy Market
Not everyone wants to spend their weekend in a conference room discussing challenges like benchmarking low-cost solar home lighting systems, finding the right business model, and raising the seed capital. But for the 11 social entrepreneurs gathered with experts and the CSTS Clean Energy Sector team, there’s no place else we would have rather been.
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View from Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerating Social Businesses
Cooperation with different stakeholders and support for the people behind the businesses. Those were the main recommendations of the ’Challenges and opportunities for accelerators and incubators’ panel held on June 29 by Fundaci?n AVINA, Ashoka and the Walmart Institute.
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Taking the Plunge: ’Journeys for Change’ Dive Into India’s Social Enterprise World
Journeys for Change is no hectic commercial tour. Rather, it’s more of a pilgrimage. Over the course of nine days, Journeys for Change connects you with real people implementing real change with well-functioning models. You will slow down, reflect, and become more grounded in the realities of the field-and the possibilities in store.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Acumen Fund Launching East Africa Fellows Program
I just returned from Nairobi where I attended the selection conference for our first Regional Fellows Program in East Africa. The day was inspiring on so many levels, but most of all it was a reminder of the incredible pipeline of leaders in the region that are aching to learn, grow, connect, and create real change.
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Playing Politics: Women (Truly) Empowering Women in Bangladesh
As with so many other causes, women’s empowerment, can always be trumped by politics. But in 2001, 24 women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh came together to change those politics. At the helm was Selima Ahmad, president of the Bangladesh Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI). By 2010, BWCCI counted 2,500 women-owned businesses as members.
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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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Laterite Aims to Build a Rock-Solid Business Layer in Rwanda
While Rwanda’s GDP has averaged 6.6% growth over the last four years, the business infrastructure to support new investment and government economic policy, is still trailing behind the surge. Launched in February by Sachin Gathani and Dimitri Stoelinga, social venture Laterite aims to address that need and spin off new businesses in the process.
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The Results Are In: Devex Top 40 Development Innovators
Devex is delighted to present the Top 40 Development Innovators. At the core of this initiative is a survey of aid workers and international development professionals designed to recognize the most innovative of the world’s leading international development organizations. Today, the survey is complete and the results are in!
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