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Saturday, February 04, 2012

From the Sun (Bypassing the Grid) to the BoP Consumer

By Adeena Schlussel

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TAGS:renewable energy, solar, technology

Friday, February 03, 2012

How 'Toil-o-preneurs' Are Scaling Sanitation Solutions

By Usha Ganesh

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TAGS:profits, public health, sanitation

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Impact Investing: Combining Finance and Philanthropy to Transform Latin America

By Cerilenne Menendez Mendoza

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TAGS:conferences, impact investing, New Ventures

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Incubator and Impact Investor Aims for Multiple BoP Sectors

By Scott Anderson — WDI

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TAGS:affordable housing, impact investing, incubators, telemedicine

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An Interview with Amit Bouri

By Rob Katz — Acumen

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TAGS:Acumen Fund, impact investing, investment fund, metrics

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Unlocking Pakistan's Enterprise Potential

By Kalsoom Lakhani

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TAGS:Acumen Fund, business development, incubators, social enterprise

Monday, January 30, 2012

NexThought Monday: A New Roadmap for Microfinance Transparency, Client Protection and Social Performance

By Mary Ellen Iskenderian

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TAGS:microcredit, Microfinance, social impact

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Weekly Roundup: 1-29-12 - Creative Destruction in Response to Disaster

By Scott Anderson — WDI

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TAGS:microenterprise, SME finance

Saturday, January 28, 2012

National Social Entrepreneurship Forum: Creating a Network With Purpose

By Devanik Saha

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TAGS:business development, fellowships, social enterprise

Friday, January 27, 2012

Floating But Not Adrift: Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic Model

By Lisa Smith — WDI

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TAGS:health care, rural, William Davidson Institute

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Bottom Line and Belt Line: Eating Healthy to Solve Malnutrition

By Elly Brown

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TAGS:nonprofit, nutrition, social business, social enterprise

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A New Methodology for Teaching Finance

By Gabriel Sánchez Campbell — TechnoServe

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TAGS:agribusiness, farmers, financial inclusion

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Powering Up: WBCSD Details Business Victories for Clean Energy Access

By Matthew Lynch

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TAGS:renewable energy, research, sustainability

Monday, January 23, 2012

NexThought Monday: An Economy of Kindness

By Cheryl Heller

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TAGS:poverty alleviation, social enterprise

Friday, January 20, 2012

Now In Its 'Junior' Year, Unreasonable Institute is Open for Business as Unusual

By Tyler Hartung

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TAGS:entrepreneurship, social capital, social enterprise

Friday, January 20, 2012

The NEXT NextBillion ...

By Scott Anderson — WDI

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TAGS:NextBillion.net

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Social Entrepreneurship in Egypt: Challenges and Opportunities

By Myra Valenzuela

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TAGS:agribusiness, NGO, social enterprise, technical assistance

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Decentralized, Distributed and Disruptive: The New Diseconomies of Scale

By Stuart Hart

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TAGS:rural development, sustainability, technology

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Mobile Money Payments: Why It's Time to Move From P2P to Me2Me

By Ignacio Mas

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TAGS:mobile banking, mobile phones, telecommunications

Monday, January 16, 2012

Beer at the BoP

By Marc Gunther

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TAGS:agribusiness, consumer products, multinational corporation

Monday, January 16, 2012

The Second Wave of Social Entrepreneurs?

By Blair Miller — Acumen

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TAGS:Acumen Fund, social entrepreneur

Friday, January 13, 2012

Best Ideas of 2011: 2012, the Year of Archimedean Entrepreneurs

By Eric Kacou

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TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, poverty alleviation, social enterprise

Friday, January 13, 2012

Scaling Up Impact Investing In China

By Tracy Elsen — New Ventures

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TAGS:impact investing, New Ventures, sustainability

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The View from Canada: Impact Investing 2.0 - Your Money, Your Way

By Carmelina Macario

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TAGS:impact investing, investment fund

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Guest Post: Promoting Green Entrepreneurship in India's Auto-Rickshaw Sector

By Akshay Mani

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TAGS:business development, consumer products, supply chains

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I really learned a lot from this interview. Choosing or shifting into a different career is a...
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Scott, I think you are definitely onto something. The key is to innovate around our current...
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