Social Enterprise and Job Creation in Uganda and Nigeria
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An Innovative and Financially Sustainable Nonprofit Model
AID for Africa’s model seems like a smart way to bring nonprofits together where they can leverage their combined presence.
What Are You Doing on World Poverty Eradication Day?
At Opportunity Collaboration, funders find ventures to support or invest in, and social enterprises find new funders and partners.
Using Collective Impact to End Homelessness
If a community wants to achieve something breathtaking, getting the right sectors to the table is a great place to start.
Reducing Poverty Through Personal Manufacturing
The problem with traditional charity is that it gives little or no thought to the power of incentives or the necessity of self sufficiency.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First
Few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how to achieve them. If the goal of microfinance is to alleviate poverty, the authors say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build successful enterprises, rather than on making more and bigger loans.
Romanticizing the Poor
Market solutions to poverty, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful.