Strategy Driven
APRIL 4, 2023
This includes establishing a clear budget, tracking expenses, and regularly reviewing financial reports to ensure that you are on track to meet your goals. How can I manage my business’s funding effectively once I have raised it? Before raising the money, try to have a solid plan in place for how you want to spend it.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Microfinance organizations provide small loans in order to help entrepreneurs get their business off the ground in the beginning. For more information on microfinancing, consider this article on: what is microfinance ? Microfinancing is an option for those who want to achieve their dreams but have no collateral to do so.
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Mills Scofield
JUNE 16, 2013
This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. It’s time for us to finally put poverty out of business for good. [1]
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2012
And make no mistake: Scaling up a business to affect the lives of tens of millions of people requires a level of capital and resources that far outstrips CSR department budgets and capabilities. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
Looking at a recent release of data from The Great Social Enterprise Census , only a fifth are larger than $2 million in budget, just 8% employ more than a 100 people, and 60% were founded in the past 8 years, when the movement really began to gain momentum. Social enterprise in the U.S. is a fast-growing, but fragmented, movement.
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?" Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance. These numbers are impressive and could easily entice a funder to support m2m.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2016
federal budget goes to foreign aid. It is actually only 1% of the federal budget, or $35 billion for all nonmilitary assistance. These colossal “beltway bandits” work everywhere from Afghanistan to Zambia and purport to offer expertise in everything from microfinance to micro-irrigation. That is wildly off.
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