Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

While in high school, she started a 50-student organization supporting Acid Survivors Foundation to help rehabilitate burn survivors of acid attacks. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

While in high school, she started a 50-student organization supporting Acid Survivors Foundation to help rehabilitate burn survivors of acid attacks. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance.

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CEO Microfinance Class Pharmaceuticals 70

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Blogging is a Mirror of Yourself and Your Organization. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Strengthen Your Boss’s Weakness. Identify Your Leader’s Weakness. Do You Practice Artificial or Authentic Accountability? Who Is Accountable for Your Career? The Answer May Surprise You.

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Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

“Many of our country organizations didn’t even know what the housing deficit was in their country,” said Steven Weir, vice president for Global Programs at Habitat for Humanity International. Next, the organizations looked outside for models that showed evidence of results in related fields.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. At the program's peak, 700 pumps covered 27,000 acres, with the loans constituting 9% of BRAC's total microfinance portfolio. The promise was exciting — the details far less so. Immerse yourself in the details.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the country still dangling from the fiscal cliff, charitable organizations like ours are finding that the individuals and foundations we depend on are more discerning than ever in their choices of how to spend their philanthropic capital. We know that microfinance alone will not break the poverty cycle.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Even non-governmental organizations, hardly usual allies for the private sector, are joining the wave of support for small business. Some microfinance organizations are also moving out of the purely micro and toward larger lending. Further research is underway now. But times have changed.

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." It's not easy, but organizations can do all of the above without staying small, just as BRAC has done.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going to scale with solutions that are often radically low-tech. At the program's peak, 700 pumps covered 27,000 acres, with the loans constituting 9% of BRAC's total microfinance portfolio. The promise was exciting — the details far less so. Immerse yourself in the details.

Technology 8

Technology Microfinance Banking Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Social entrepreneurs have also been some of the most attentive followers of the academic debate between the likes of Mark Pitt and Jonathan Murdoch about whether microfinance really helps reduce poverty. Prahalad's " bottom of the pyramid ," that began life as academic research. That's because the stakes are higher for social entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. Unfortunately, these trends still have little to no impact on the lives of a critical and chronically marginalized subset of the extreme poor around the world, those living on less than 60 to 70 cents per day. And we may have found a way to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

My organization, The Bridgespan Group, received 1,800 applications for 18 entry-level positions consulting to nonprofits and philanthropy. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs. After a decade of persistence, the organization now reaches 2,000 kids per year, yet there are 6.7

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

To sustain the benefits derived, the Social Development initiatives of NAF have helped village communities in establishing community-based institutions like Farmers Clubs (160), Self Help Groups and Joint Liability Groups (900), Farmers Producer Organizations (6), Watershed committees (25) etc for collective decision and action.

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Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

When organizations talk to my colleagues and me at the Skoll Foundation about growth in staff size, budget size, or client / beneficiary numbers, we often ask "So what?" For us the question is not how do you grow organizations but how do you scale impact? Multiply Impact, Don't Just Grow the Organization.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

What does this mean for would-be investors and for the supporters (both individuals and organizations) of social entrepreneurs? This makes sense to Milaap.org , a social enterprise in Bangalore that crowdsources low-cost capital for microfinance institutions through its online platform.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Media Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Of course, not all business event organizers work so hard to help attendees network. When those in the group that had the job givers question pulled off their masks, they discovered that Muhammad Yunus , a Nobel Prize winner for his microfinance work, had been with them, listening carefully to all their suggestions. And it worked.

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Conference Microfinance Participative Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

The sector will organize itself across the spectrum from philanthropy to investing, and the resulting clusters will demonstrate the differences in risk, financial returns, target customer, and social impact across the various sub-sectors of impact investing. Surely we can do the same for impact investing. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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CO2

JUNE 4, 2012

My solution was to found a microfinance organization that puts women in a position to create their own destinies and achieve their full potential. I shared young Jacqueline’s same passion and mission—to help the world’s poorest people meet their basic needs and live with dignity. Where does one start? Chingwell Mutombu. May 2012. ###.

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Microfinance Travel Open-book Education 121

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Crafting and sustaining a multifaceted identity is challenging for todays’ workers and their organizations. In her book, Expect to Win , Carla Harris provided examples of times that mentors in the organization helped her to showcase her multifaceted self, such as when one sponsor colleague invited her to sing at a work party.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Examples Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Marquis created an organization called Coaching For Change to engage young Black men as entrepreneurs pursuing business opportunities related to basketball, football, and other sports. Marquis is building his organization in Massachusetts, a far cry from the Los Angeles of his youth. Do they care deeply about this issue or community?

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