The BoP Project: Photojournalism At The Bottom Of The Pyramid

The (BoP) Project travels throughout East Africa documenting the untold stories of those at the Base of the Economic Pyramid, working directly with social enterprises, entrepreneurs, and innovative nonprofits to produce independent media and visual portfolios of their stories. Social Innovation, Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurs, SoCap, Cause Integration, Causecast, cause integrated solutions, East Africa, The BoP Project, Base of the Economic Pyramid, social enterprises, entrepreneurs, innovative nonprofits, independent media, visual portfolios, KOMAZA, nonprofit social enterprise, Kenya, First Nonprofit Forestry Company, rural farmers, micro-forestry projects, innovator, writer, photographer, student, executive director, CEO, Cause Integration

Corporations and Citizen-Sector Organizations Coming Together

Harvard Business Review, Bill Drayton, Ashoka, Valeria Budinich, Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship Initiative, collaboration, formal economy, bottom 4 billion, education, transportation, finance, citizen sector, mission-minded business, social needs, social entrepreneurs, leadership, citizen-sector organizations, CSOs, cause integration, for-profit citizen-sector organizations, social enterprises, collaborative business, Benevolent Capitalism, comparative advantage

More Business, Less Charity

From FastCompany.com Contributer Alice Korngold:

There's a new trend emerging among a small number of NGOs (non-governmental organizations, used in reference to global nonprofits).

Let's Raise Kids To Be Entrepreneurs

It all starts with a big idea.  Then the mind kicks into high gear, thinking about where's, and how's and what about the money?  After the brainstorming, and the planning, comes time for action.  And then you take action over and over again.  And eventually, profit.  Or fail.

So what is it?  Entrepreneurship.  Taking an idea conceived in a stroke of insight, and then planning and accomplishing in order to make the idea real.

Kopernik; Connecting Technology Providers With Technology Seekers

Plenty of companies are developing and manufacturing products addressing the needs of the 4 billion people in the world living in relative poverty, and many more are realizing the potential of making  products geared towards those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The New Colors Of Venture Capital

A new breed of VC funds is looking to invest in social enterprises that deliver developmental benefits, AND, generate decent financial returns.
AHONA GHOSH/ Outlook Business: India

The sun sets and a shroud of darkness descends rapidly over Bihar’s West Champaran district. Without electricity, much of the population turns to kerosene lanterns. But Tamkuha and 45 other villages in the district are glimmering islands of light, even late into the night.

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