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April 9, 2008 — 12:03 pm
Acumen Fund is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Executive Assistant to the CEO. Location: New York, NY Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Its objective is to...
April 8, 2008 — 08:03 am
Acumen Fund's Pakistan Office is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Business Development Manager. Location: Karachi, Pakistan Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a...
April 3, 2008 — 09:47 pm
Acumen Fund's India Office is currently seeking highly qualified applicants for the positions of Portfolio Associate and Legal Associate. Location: Hyderabad, India Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund serving the four billion people living on less...
March 26, 2008 — 09:31 am
Position: Research Associate, Growing Inclusive Markets (UNDP) Location: New York Duration: Two-month consultancy, early April through the end of May 2008. Organization: "Growing Inclusive Markets" is a new multi-stakeholder initiative, led by the United Nations Development...
March 7, 2008 — 05:26 pm
Over the last few months, there’s been plenty of discussion about the growing importance of building talent in the area of BoP business/social enterprise. Moses Lee has mentioned talent often – in one recent post, he described how a BoP business scheme failed when a group of experienced...
February 8, 2008 — 03:22 pm
NextBillion readers, the time has come for me also to bid you goodbye as a daily contributor to NextBillion.net. It's been a great six-month run for me here at the World Resources Institute, and I will greatly miss sharing the interest of hundreds of you out there who are watching BoP...
February 6, 2008 — 05:33 pm
So far, 2008 has been a great year in terms of attention to BoP and market-based solutions to poverty. Out of Poverty, a new book by Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), just hit the shelves this month and will certainly add to this momentum. IDE's recent...
February 6, 2008 — 09:48 am
Position: Chief Operating Officer Location: Hyderabad, India with frequent international travel to the US, China, Africa and Latin America (30%) Organization: Scojo Foundation is a global social enterprise, currently operating in 13 countries, which creates jobs and sustains livelihoods...
January 31, 2008 — 03:58 pm
Yesterday, I attended a panel discussion entitled "Creative Capitalism: Can It Meet the Needs of the World's Poor?" The panel of experienced practitioners and academics was convened to respond to Bill Gates' recent speech at Davos where he encouraged "an approach where...
January 29, 2008 — 11:32 am
Position: Director, TED Fellowship Program Location: New York, NY Organization: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now...
