New partnerships.
New data.
New funding opportunities.
Even a (discouraging) new Twitter hashtag.
This week in global development and social enterprise featured plenty of interesting stories, which generated no shortage of online chatter. We’ve sampled a bit of it, as always, in this top ten list.
You’re welcome to contribute suggestions of your own, by sending:
- General social enterprise topics to @NextBillion or NB managing editor @ScotterAnderson,
- Gobal health topics to @NextBillionHC,
- Financial inclusion and impact investing topics to @NextBillionFI
Impact investing in conservation is expected to triple in the next 5 years http://t.co/3mShfdq52i #impinv pic.twitter.com/bxdYqSYJHO
— NatureVest (@NatureVest) March 26, 2015
Apply for two challenges that will help two billion reach financial security http://t.co/YJI5FGufLp via @gatesfoundation #NOunbanked
— Ruth Goodwin-Groen (@RuthGoodwinG) March 27, 2015
China’s one-child policy may leave millions of old people with no one to look after them http://t.co/jvVya3GC74 pic.twitter.com/HPa9OxRFOT
— Bloomberg Business (@business) March 25, 2015
Why is #VaccineWar trending? What “War”? #VaccinesWork if everyone plays their part! Who devised this unhelpful tag? pic.twitter.com/zY380NMlOp
— Dr Kim Shepherd (@DrKimShepherd) March 25, 2015
.@CaseFoundation & @Bcorporation are pleased to announce a new partnership: ‘Measure What Matters.’ http://t.co/zOQPd9RY7f #impinv #socent
— Case Foundation (@CaseFoundation) March 23, 2015
VIDEO: @jentescher @Chase @arjanschutte talk #FinLab $3M competition to improve #finhealth. Apply by 4/7 #fintech http://t.co/cjzE6pW2Th
— CFSI (@CFSInnovation) March 27, 2015
A primer on #mHealth app regulations http://t.co/Vo4jncSiWo pic.twitter.com/xRjfHdaLLJ
— mHealth News (@mhealth_news) March 23, 2015
#Infographic: Funders committed at least $31 billion in 2013 to advance #financialinclusion. http://t.co/I1I0bCVSBk pic.twitter.com/t7Q3HmZmOl
— CGAP (@CGAP) March 25, 2015
New Morgan Stanley report challenges misperceptions regarding sustainable investing and performance #impinv http://t.co/2GwgxsJb4a
— MorganStanley (@MorganStanley) March 24, 2015
What a relief to be LESS snarky than The Economist about the UN Sustainable Development Goals http://t.co/AmdqMKbl0o
— William Easterly (@bill_easterly) March 26, 2015
