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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. Top 5 Servant Leadership Tweeters In 2010. Servant Leadership Observer – December 2010. Servant Leadership Observer – October 2010.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. Lessons from Microfinance.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

We're a network of microfinance organizations; we exist to share practices and develop the leadership skills required by a sector that has grown up fast. And as you might be aware, microfinance is a phenomenon that, while it did not set out to be "for women," has mainly turned out to be.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance. By increasing or jump-starting these institutions’ housing microfinance lending, Habitat aims to create robust markets for this financing that can continue on their own.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story. Microfinance banks, which provide desperately needed loans to low-income consumers, draw mainstream investors because of their attractive returns. The result has been explosive growth. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006. Frogtek and many other hybrids sell goods and services, and rely on revenues to sustain and scale their operations.

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Facebook Presence Is an Important Clue to a Social Venture's Future

Harvard Business Review

Here, we gleaned some additional insights from a separate analysis of 281 social ventures that applied to participate in the 2010 or 2011 Summer Institutes run by the Unreasonable Institute , the Colorado-based social-enterprise accelerator. So what does it take to create these larger online networks?