Development Microfinance Technology Training 
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
We equipped a dozen chaiwalas with HomeStoves, trained them to use the stove, printed BioLite banners to hang on their stands, and set them up with cords, so customers could charge their phones off our stove. Each Burner undergoes a five-day intensive training and receives their own HomeStove Delivery Box.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.
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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." Likewise, BRAC grew into a chaebol or conglomerate for social development. So BRAC got into food processing.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Its aim is to target an important segment of the labor force, young people who have not received adequate education and training due to various external and internal factors. Across most developing countries, there is a model for job training where youth are assisted to acquire basic skills.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2014
And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. is Year Up , an organization that mentors and trains disconnected youth into living-wage jobs.
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