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Organization: D.Light Design Location: Shenzhen, CN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FELLOW Winter 2010 - Shenzhen, China D.light Design is seeking passionate and talented professionals to contribute to one of the world’s leading social enterprises through 6-month+ fellowship. As a ...
Energy/Transportation
Organization: D.Light Design Location: Delhi, IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FELLOW - Winter 2010 - New Delhi, India D.light Design Fellows Program D.light Design is seeking passionate and talented professionals to contribute to one of the world's leading social enterprises through 6-month+ ...
Energy/Transportation
India
Authored by: Francisco Noguera If you happen to be in or around London next week, here's an event you won't want to miss. Convened by our allies at Business Fights Poverty, Business Innovations to Fight Climate Change and Poverty will bring together a number of key players representing ...
Environment
Climate Change
Authored by: Jenara Nerenberg Reporting from Kathmandu, I wanted to update our readers on events and resources in the Asia region. What follows is a list with links and more to help you navigate the latest in Asia.
Goldman Sachs recently released a paper about women as the next emerging ...
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Philippines
India
China
Authored by: Mark Beckford Over the last five years, the public and private sectors have introduced a number of initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide and bringing computers to under-served markets.
Intel launched the World Ahead program in 2006, a broad sweeping initiative to ...
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United Nations
Intel
Authored by: Manuel Bueno Microfinance is widely touted as a major private sector success in tackling development. According to the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2009 , microfinance now reaches more than 100 million people through more than 3,500 organizations . ...
Green Living
Authored by: Diana Hollmann It's Friday in the 2009 Global Entrepreneurship Week ! 20,000 events involving 5 million people around the globe planned for November 16-22. On Monday, here in Washington, IFC held a one-day conference addressing the issue of achieving scale in ...
Environment
Organization: New Ventures India Location: Hyderabad, IN New Ventures India is a joint initiative between CII GBC and World Resources Institute aimed at developing the ecosystem for green SMEs and, in particular, facilitating capital transfer to green enterprises. New Ventures. The New ...
Environment
India
World Resources Institute
Organization: New Ventures India Location: Hyderabad, IN New Ventures India is a joint initiative between CII GBC and World Resources Institute aimed at developing the ecosystem for green SMEs and, in particular, facilitating capital transfer to green enterprises. New Ventures. The New ...
Environment
India
World Resources Institute
Authored by: Diana Hollmann 2 days, 2600 participants and over 350 speakers on more than 100 panels - those are some of the stats of this year’s Net Impact conference. One thing is for sure: It was an intense and inspiring conference! Clean Technology at the Base of the Pyramid ...
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Authored by: Jayme Self From the opening keynote, the Net Impact Conference was buzzing with students and professionals passionate about corporate social responsibility, green living, and international development. So it makes sense that one of the panels would be focused around "Careers at ...
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Organization: Microfinance Focus Location: Bangalore, IN Microfinance Focus is the first and only international online monthly magazine focused on the microfinance sector. Microfinance Focus initiated publishing in July 2006, and is currently distributed to over 6,000 primary subscribers. The ...
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Organization: Microfinance Focus Location: Bangalore, IN Microfinance Focus is the first and only international online monthly magazine focused on the microfinance sector. Microfinance Focus initiated publishing in July 2006, and is currently distributed to over 6,000 primary subscribers. The ...
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Organization: Microfinance Focus Location: Bangalore, IN
Microfinance Focus is the first and only international online monthly magazine focused on the microfinance sector. Microfinance Focus initiated publishing in July 2006, and is currently distributed to over 6,000 primary subscribers. ...
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Organization: E+Co Location: Dar es Salaam, TZ E+Co is a mission driven investment company that provides services and financing to clean energy entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. E+Co invests in enterprises that realize access to clean and affordable energy, resulting in ...
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Organization: LifeSpring Hospitals Location: Secunderabad, IN
LifeSpring Hospitals Private Ltd. is an expanding chain of hospitals that provide high quality health care to lower-income women and children across Andhra Pradesh. LifeSpring's small hospitals (20-25 beds) fill the ...
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Organization: LifeSpring Hospitals Location: Secunderabad, IN
Company Background:
LifeSpring Hospitals Private Ltd. is an expanding chain of hospitals that provide high quality health care to lower-income women and children across Andhra Pradesh. LifeSpring's small ...
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Authored by: Diana Hollmann Impact investing is estimated to reach a total of 500 billion USD within the next decade. Profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental impact could be an alternative model or an important supplement to traditional aid flowing from developed ...
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Authored by: Amie Vaccaro How can we design, fund and implement affordable solutions for the developing world's toughest challenges? How can we maximize social impact with our designs? The "Design for Extreme Affordability" panel at Net Impact conference tackled these very issues.
Jeffrey ...
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Authored by: Lindsay Stradley Although microfinance (MF) has not been a panacea for economic development and poverty eradication at the base of the pyramid, its significant impact has prompted many to urge the MF community to expand that success by moving into "Microfinance 2.0." This ...
