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  • The ‘Avon Ladies' of Africa

    Tina Rosenberg

    October 10, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    A successful program in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods using the Avon model, aiming to create a self-sustaining system for delivering essential health products.

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  • Innovative funding model allows urban poor to determine their own future

    Katia Savchuk

    October 08, 2012 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    Though well-meaning, many poverty alleviation and development efforts treat the receivers of aid as subjects rather than capable people. Urban Poor Fund International, the first global fund to give poor people direct control over urban development spending, is having more than just a local impact.

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  • For Ambitious Nonprofits, Capital to Grow

    David Bornstein

    June 27, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Funding with too many strings attached makes it hard for non-profits to grow and be impactful. An American organization, Nonprofit Finance Fund (N.F.F.) Capital Partners division, is finding ways to finance non-profits likes companies and has already shown great success in pilot situations.

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  • The Promise of Social Impact Bonds

    Tina Rosenberg

    June 20, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    When a government needs to invest in an expensive capital project — a new sewer system, bridge or highway — it issues bonds. The hot new idea in social programs – finance prevention programs to cut recidivism, reduce homelessness or keep kids in school by selling bonds, to be paid only if the program is a success.

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  • The Microinsurance Revolution

    Tina Rosenberg

    June 06, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India

    If rich people need life insurance, poor people need it more. Here’s how millions of poor people are getting it – including people with AIDS.

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  • Can Coffee Kick-Start an Economy?

    Daniel Bergner

    April 06, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kasese, Western Region

    African coffee growers sell their raw beans cheaply to traders, earning very little for their work. The creator of Good African Coffee in Uganda was able to sell the first African roasted coffee internationally by selling consumers the story of the coffee.

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  • Prizes With an Eye Toward the Future

    Tina Rosenberg

    February 29, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Agencies across the corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors are recruiting ideas from the public by offering prizes for solving challenges. Prize incentives have spurred innovation for centuries, but fell out of favor as the preferred method in the 1800s. Now, prize-based incentives are back, in part because of a flood of new philanthropic money, and because prizes cast a wider net to a largely more educated and tech-savvy global population.

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  • Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil

    David Bornstein

    December 08, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The United States can outsource certain kinds of "microwork," such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person’s, or one country’s gain, must be another’s loss.

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  • Making Low-Interest Auto Loans Work

    Lisa Margonelli

    August 16, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    When you don’t live in a city, if you don’t have a car, you don’t have a job. But car payments can eat up a salary quickly - a New England program offers low-cost car loans to people who need them most.

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  • On the Road, and Out of the Red

    Lisa Margonelli

    August 11, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    More Than Wheels, a New Hampshire-based non-profit offers an economically stable solution to the high cost of owning a car. The program offers low-cost car loans that go toward the purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles.

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