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You’ve never seen a fundraising video like this before.  Check out Mahindra Foundation’s “A Girl Story” campaign and watch the video series following Tarla, an underprivileged Indian girl.  But there’s a catch: donations are required to keep the story going.  Amazing use of technology and the YouTube API.  Only complaint is that I wish the website were clearer about where a donation would go and how it will be used to make a difference.

You’ve never seen a fundraising video like this before.  Check out Mahindra Foundation’s “A Girl Story” campaign and watch the video series following Tarla, an underprivileged Indian girl.  But there’s a catch: donations are required to keep the story going. 

Amazing use of technology and the YouTube API.  Only complaint is that I wish the website were clearer about where a donation would go and how it will be used to make a difference.

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Work as a charity: water Development Intern

In under 4 years, supporters of charity: water have funded 2600+ projects in 17 countries that bring clean water to over 1.2 million people.  If you’re a graduate student in New York City with experience in fundraising, apply for this internship immediately. 

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A Test to Identify Entrepreneurs

“The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a branch of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development, has devised a psychometric test to help banks in emerging markets easily screen loan applicants. The goal is to spur lending to small and midsize companies, a vital sector often underfunded in the developing world.”

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The best way to combat poverty is to help each person make money and stand on their own.

Tadashi Yanai, Chairman and President of Fast Retailing, which owns the Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo.

“Japan’s casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Tuesday they would create a textiles company in Bangladesh to help poor women gain financial independence.

Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, plans to invest some 100,000 dollars to set up Grameen Uniqlo Ltd in October.

The new company will source materials and make garments in Bangladesh—including women’s underwear, school uniforms and blankets.

It plans to hire up to 2,000 local people within three years, drawn mainly from the eight million borrowers of Yunus’ ‘microcredit’ Grameen Bank, and train them to become financially independent by selling clothes.”

Read the official press release here. 

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When you mix profit and social benefit and say that your company will pursue both goals, you are making life complicated for the chief executive officer. His thinking process gets clouded. He does not see clearly. In a particular situation where profit and social benefit need to be balanced, which way should the scales be tipped?
Muhammad Yunus in “Social Entrepreneurs Must Drop the Balancing Act”, an excerpt from his new book, Building Social Business.

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U.S. Lagging, Not Leading, Social Entrepreneurship

Very interesting article (and comments!) on the Harvard Business Review Blog “The Conversation” about why the U.S. needs to “spend less time and money training entrepreneurs and funding contests domestically [and] invest more in social entrepreneurs globally.”

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MIT Media Lab has developed NETRA (short for “Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment”), which aims to make eye exams affordable in the developing world. 

Read more of “Eye Phone: MIT Researchers Develop Ultra-Cheap, Smartphone-Based Eye Exam Tool” on Fast Company.  

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TechCrunch interviews Samasource CEO Leila Janah in How Samasource Helps The World. According to its website, Samasource is “Microwork for the next billion.”  They bring dignified, computer-based work to women, youth, and refugees living in poverty.

In the video, they talk about Samasource’s model, its challenges, its competitive advantage, and why it’s run as a nonprofit instead of a business.

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Successful Strategies for Social Change

Very interesting examples of community building and trauma response from UNICEF and Ashoka that focus on the power of play to transform reality. 

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Posted 2 years ago

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JoinAfrica aims to bring a world of information to a continent whose population only has 8.7% Internet penetration right now. At the core of JoinAfrica is the belief that providing basic Internet is as essential to society as clean water and clean power. Read more here.

JoinAfrica aims to bring a world of information to a continent whose population only has 8.7% Internet penetration right now. At the core of JoinAfrica is the belief that providing basic Internet is as essential to society as clean water and clean power.

Read more here.

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