Our Impact | Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor Learn about our approach We work with service providers to demonstrate and scale up successful models to improve services for low income consumers. See the cities we work in Our implementation programme is currently focused in towns and cities in six countries. UK Youth Climate Coalition How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups? Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation unit. Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class ”Design for Unicef” in NYU’s ITP Program, is a global partner of Stanford’s New Product Design Innovation course, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia University on leveraging technology and design to improve international development. She previously wrote on TechCrunch about how the future of mobile lies in the developing world. You’re a social entrepreneur wanting to change the world, but are having a hard time scaling your promising idea and achieving lasting impact. To frame this advice, let’s first take a look at what the terms scale and impact mean. Scale implies that your idea is reaching a large percentage of your target audience. Mehrdod, a 10-year-old boy, winces as he is vaccinated against measles in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 1. Dr. 2.
Pants to Poverty - Welcome World Business Council for Sustainable Development Understanding the business contribution to society The WBCSD Measuring Impact Framework, launched in 2008, was developed in collaboration with over 20 WBCSD member companies. It is designed to help companies understand their contribution to society and use this understanding to inform their operational and long-term investment decisions, and have better conversations with stakeholders.
Microfinance from CARE International UK | lendwithcare.org Why Poverty Buzzbnk - Positive People Backing Bright Ideas Markets For Good | A Social Sector Powered By Information 02 Oct, 2012 Welcome to the Markets for Good conversation! We hope that this site will serve as the “virtual water cooler” for a sustained, thoughtful conversation about what is needed to improve the social sector’s ability to generate, share, and use information. This conversation encompasses the spectrum of capital and enterprises devoted to social good, from philanthropy to impact investing. We intend to chronicle developments and advancements – from both collaborating organizations and adjacent efforts – to keep all who are interested in these issues informed and engaged. Some may wonder how this all came about. The group evolved and grew over time. While our three organizations have separate missions and separate budgets, there’s a lot of strategic alignment and we believe that the partnership plays to all of our strengths. We look forward to hearing from you.
Flattr - Social microdonations How Social Entrepreneurs Who Need Money Can Get Noticed “Do good” business owners seeking funding should target investors looking to put their money to work to make positive social or environmental change. But how to get on their radar? One new way to make your company known to these "social investors" is through a new online searchable database for social entrepreneurs. It's called GIIRS, short for Global Impact Investing Rating System. It analyzes a company’s social and environmental performance and rates it against peers. The initial analysis costs between $2,500 and $15,000, depending on your business size. Less than a year old, the database is being used by an initial group of about 20 investors and 60 private equity and debt funds. Related: B Corps: The Next Generation of Company? Curious? How does GIIRS work? GIIRS investor subscribers range from large institutional investors to foundations to wealthy individuals -- and search the network of registered companies for those that fit their specifications. How do I get a GIIRS rating?
A Look Inside Pipa, Brazil’s First Start-Up Incubator --This post is co-written by Dhaval Chadha, a founding partner at Cria, an innovation consultancy and corporate venture incubator, and one of the cofounders of Pipa. Pipa (Portuguese for “kite”) is an incubator, or to be more specific an accelerator, focused on supporting entrepreneurs looking to create long-term sustainable value through business. We aim to support these entrepreneurs in their quest to create positive social, environmental and financial impact, something Brazil is engaging with more and more. While we strongly believe current paradigms of business and capitalism are losing relevance in the context of rising populations, inequality, environmental degradation and exponentially advancing technology, we also believe that business is one of the best forms of creating lasting social impact. This is because it is self-sustaining and thereby scalable. The partners at the four companies were already friends and sporadically worked on projects together.
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