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Kenya: M – Lab Wins Impact Economy Innovations Grant
M:Lab East Africa identifies, nurtures and helps build startups in the knowledge economy by providing training, market research, access to finance and infrastructure among many other services.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Somaliland: Silatech and Kaaba Microfinance Partner to Support Youth Enterprise
Silatech has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kaaba Microfinance Institution (K-MFI), based in Somaliland, to promote youth enterprise and employment solutions. The agreement paves the way for the two organizations to jointly develop a Youth Enterprise Fund, which will provide dedicated funds and technical assistance to microfinance institutions throughout Somaliland.
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- Uncategorized
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Weekly Roundup 2/8/14: Why the Hult Prize is Tackling Health Care in the Slums: Social entrepreneurs tackle toughest ‘President’s Challenge’ yet
Teams of four or five students are being asked to “build sustainable and scalable social enterprises to address non-communicable disease in urban slums.” And, to top it off, the challenge calls for all this to be completed by 2019.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘A Meeting of Minds’: World’s largest global health and social entrepreneurship conference set for April
The 11th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University will draw more than 2,200 participants from around the world. Speakers will cover a variety of topics, including social entrepreneurship, social businesses, business in global health, design thinking, maternal and child health, and non-communicable diseases.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Sankalp Forum announces 24 Indian social enterprises as Sankalp Awards Finalists for 2014
Finalists looking for nearly INR 200 Crores in impact investments over the next two years. Also competing for Sankalp People’s Choice Awards to be decided by the global online community.
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- Energy
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VisionSpring Cofounder Jordan Kassalow On Why Two Million Customers Is Not Enough
Jordan Kassalow is cofounder and chairman of VisionSpring, and has more than 20 years of experience providing eye care to the world’s poor.
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- Health Care
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Tata social enterprise challenge to encourage innovative ideas in India
The winners of the second edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge, hosted by the Tata group in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), were announced today at IIM Calcutta.
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- South Asia
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Building an India-Africa Pipeline Part 3 : Six exciting expansions to add to your watch list
In our ongoing series with NextBillion, we have explored the Africa-India Innovation Transfer and shared our insights on the startup ecosystem from expanding Sankalp Forum into Africa. In our third article in this series, we’re profiling six pioneering organizations that will expand across the regions in the near future. We hope these expansions and the resulting knowledge will form a foundation for others to build upon.
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- Social Enterprise
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