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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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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

And while some foundations bucked the trend and made double-digit investment gains in recent years, the average foundation in Chronicle's analysis netted out 14.9 It called for leveraging the profits of the global microfinance institution, and coupling them with private investments from the Allmans and their donor network.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

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. ” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. 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

This makes sense to Milaap.org , a social enterprise in Bangalore that crowdsources low-cost capital for microfinance institutions through its online platform. Similarly, Twitter followers are more numerous when the venture is active on Facebook and LinkedIn.