Microfinance: A Platform for Social Change
Grameen Foundation / Marge Magner
The report underscores the importance of microfranchises to help raise people out of poverty in a sustainable manner.
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World Resources Institute Releases Study of Scojo Foundation's Success in India
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The WRI report, "What Works: Scojo India Foundation", was prepared in cooperation with Columbia Business School, the International Development Club, and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
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Growing Opportunity: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems
SustainAbility Ltd and The Skoll Foundation, 2007
This report is the first product of the Skoll Foundation-SustainAbility partnership. It details how the relatively new phenomenon of social entrepreneurship can change the way we think about business, investment and social progress.
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Income Is Development
by Martin Fisher
Innovations, Winter 2006
Article by the founder of KickStart details the organization's efforts to help Kenyan farmers transition to a cash economy using irrigation pumps.
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Private Sector Strategies for Providing Healthcare at the Bottom of the Pyramid
by John Paul
World Resources Institute, November 2005
This report highlights a number of innovative enterprises that leverage cross-sector partnerships to provide affordable healthcare to the poor.
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Selling to the Poor
by Allen L. Hammond and C.K. Prahalad
Foreign Policy, May/June 2004
Searching for new customers eager to buy your products? Try the world's 4 billion poor people, the largest untapped consumer market on Earth.
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The Base of the Pyramid
by Nicole Boyer
Global Business Network Working Paper, May 2004
The Base of the Pyramid is being heralded as the biggest potential opportunity in the history of commerce — and at the same time, a troubling future discontinuity for many incumbent players. Which will it be? The answer, most likely, is both.
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Social Entrepreneurship: More Than Words
by Connette Gayle
OnPhilanthropy, April 23, 2004
Social Entrepreneurship is not just something people are talking about. Many people are out there doing it — and they are making a real impact on a local and global scale.
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Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, March 2004
Business is now accepted as a key partner and solution-provider in meeting the Millenium Development Goals, and is itself recognizing the needs and the opportunities presented by the world's poor people.
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Business Services for Small Enterprises in Asia
by Urs Heierli
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Study, January 14, 2000
Study of creating a market for products which are useful to the poor and which will allow them to escape the poverty trap.
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