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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Updated: Monday, October 30, 2017
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By FSG
 The monthly dapivirine ring, the first discrete, long-acting, HIV prevention product designed specifically for women, will soon be on the market.* Women account for over half of adult HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, but have few HIV prevention options that they can control. This new product is critical to empower women to protect themselves and to make progress towards the elimination of HIV.
Developed with the OPTIONS Consortium, a five-year USAID and PEPFAR initiative, and the International Partnership for Microbicides, this report is for national governments, donors, implementers, and advocates who are planning for the launch of the monthly dapivirine ring.
*Pending approval by regulatory authorities.
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Updated: Monday, October 30, 2017
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By FSG
 The current global crisis of economic exclusion and inequity has millions of people in poverty with limited opportunities to escape. The questions of how markets work, and who they work for, have never been more pressing.
Truly inclusive markets lead to expanded opportunity for more broadly shared prosperity, especially for those facing the greatest barriers. With support from The Rockefeller Foundation, we analyzed historical cases where such inclusive transformations actually occurred in order to understand the ways in which they were achieved. Using these insights, we offer practical recommendations for funders and intermediaries seeking to enable more of these shifts in the future.
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Monday, October 30, 2017
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By LifeCo UnLtd SA
 On this the 20th anniversary of LifeCo UnLtd SA we remember the path to get here and we look ahead to the challenges before us.
We are because you are. We are a community of business people, partners and governors who care about building a nation of champions in South Africa. Our responsibility is to contribute to achieving socio-economic justice for all and to preserve the planet that sustains life as we know it. These ideals guide everything we do. LifeCo UnLtd exists for this reason, and is part of a growing, global community of high-impact social enterprises that serve people and planet.
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Friday, October 27, 2017
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Enterprises seeking to achieve both impact and financial returns have worked hard for many years to deliver critical goods and services to those living at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). While these efforts have clearly had tremendous impact helping large numbers of very poor people, it remains unclear how deeply down into the BOP we as a field are reaching.
Are these enterprises consistently reaching people living on $8 a day? How about $4, or $2, or less? Given the lack of good data, we really do not know. And yet we need to. In order to understand how to reach deeply down the pyramid, we need to understand who is successfully doing so. In order to know when we should subsidize for-profit enterprises to get them to reach lower, we need a better understanding of the “natural” limits to their current reach.
This report was developed jointly by Monitor Deloitte, the MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Rockefeller Foundation to help provide transparency and guidance to advance the broader field of funding for businesses serving the deep BOP.
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Posted By Administration,
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
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As part of a series of ecosystem maps, with the support of the Citi Foundation, our West Africa Regional Chapter recently released three snapshots, providing insight into the Abuja, Accra, and Lagos entrepreneurial ecosystems. These snapshots were produced through a review of existing literature, a series of surveys and interviews, as well as stakeholder meetings. Click on the images below to access the snapshots.
Nigeria Ecosystem Maps
 
Ghana Ecosystem Maps
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Friday, October 20, 2017
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By the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
 Impact investors seek to achieve meaningful positive change through their investments, including greatly improving the quality of life of underserved people around the world, and ensuring a sustainable and healthy planet. These investors often work in challenging environments with untested business models. Capacity-building support, also known as technical assistance, is a vital tool used by many investors to complement their investments and expand and deepen their impact.
I am pleased to share our report, Beyond Investment: The Power of Capacity-Building Support, which illuminates current capacity-building practice and invites a discussion about how to elevate future practice. This report documents how capacity-building support can contribute to the impact that investors are able to achieve, and surfaces three key insights about the current state of such support in impact investing:
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Monday, October 16, 2017
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By Street Business School
Three years ago, we set out to test whether the incredible business training program we developed for women making beads could create transformation far beyond the borders of Uganda. The idea was simple. Let's share our proven model with other organizations, who are already experts on the needs of their local communities, and help them maximize their impact rather than reinventing the wheel. We started in January 2014 and completed phase I of this journey on June 30 of this year.
Check out our Milestones to celebrate, as what we have accomplished has far outstripped our expectations. As you read this, Street Business School is being taught in ve countries across East Africa with the potential of two more in the near future. The 19 partner groups we have trained will help more than 6,000 women and almost 37,000 children out of poverty. Forever.
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Monday, October 9, 2017
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By Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
 Soon after their founding in 1540, the Jesuits established an expansive network of educational institutions around the world, embodying what we now call social entrepreneurship.
In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls “the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development.” Social entrepreneurship is a transformative response to this call.
The Jesuit-in-Residence experience is customized to the vocation of the individual Jesuit. The program’s pioneer, Fr. Phil Cooke, SJ, organized GSBI Boost accelerator programs in Nicaragua and the Philippines. Under the leadership of Fr. Bossou Constant, SJ, we created a Jesuit Network for Social Entrepreneurship, including four provinces in Africa, one in the United States, and one in China, with 18 affiliated Jesuits.
Miller Center imagines that this network will leverage Jesuit social and educational ministries to amplify the global impact of social entrepreneurship. The vocations of the Jesuits in this booklet illustrate the power of purpose in their approach.
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Posted By Liza Curcio, Aspen Institute,
Monday, October 9, 2017
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By Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
At Miller Center, we believe that social entrepreneurship effects profound change, disrupts unjust social equilibria, and has the potential to be a driving force in attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. When social entrepreneurs thrive in our Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®), when our Global Social Benefit Fellows engage in action research with these entrepreneurs, and when GSBI Mentors emerge with new insights, the results are transformative.
On our journey, we’ve discovered that everyone who accompanies us can be transformed. Through service to others, we and purpose. Miller Center unites the world’s most entrepreneurial ecosystem with the Jesuit tradition of serving the poor and protecting the planet.
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Posted By Lauren Farello, Aspen Institute,
Friday, October 6, 2017
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By Agora Partnerships
 Investing for Impact: 27 Investment Opportunities to Change the World outlines opportunities to support and invest in entrepreneurs across Latin America and the Caribbean who are solving the Sustainable Development Goals and building a more just, equitable society. These outstanding companies have gone through Agora’s Accelerator program and many are fully investment ready and looking for immediate capital. Every company in this book needs support - whether investment, advice, connections or access to markets - and every entrepreneur has been selected based on demonstration of the values of empathy, agency, curiosity and perseverance and their ability to create lasting, sustainable change.
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