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Social Enterprise

No Toilet, No Marriage

A new rom-com from India has a serious social justice issue at heart: toilets.

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Social Enterprise

Open Source App Helps Reconnect Families

Open source app, Primero, is reconnecting displaced refugees and immigrants through interoperability and intuitive design.

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Value Chains

This Roof Fights Rain, Heat, Climate Change and Monkeys

When two feet of rain fell on Ahmedabad, India, during the monsoon season, residents like Meena Soni thought about upgrading their roofs. Until recently, they had no choice but to go into debt for an expensive concrete slab roof.

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Smart Slums Pioneer Innovative Tech Solutions

Where there is need, there is innovation.

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Social Enterprise

How toilet technology is overcoming the 'yuck' factor

Simple and affordable toilets can help 2.5 billion people live healthier lives.

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Sustainable Energy

CoLab-oration: MIT Brings a Fresh Perspective to the Fight Against Climate Change

MIT's Climate CoLab is building partnerships between citizens, scientists, and stakeholders to democratize the fight against climate change.

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Weekly News Roundup: South Korean President Steps Down

This week in international news

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Social Enterprise

2016 Tech Awards Winners: The Best of the Best

From rural farming water pumps to a new meningitis vaccination, the 2016 Tech Awards honors past winners that are thriving social ventures.

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Social Enterprise

Weekly News Roundup: An electricity-free centrifuge and a winter wonderland in Istanbul

A weekly roundup of development news from around the internet

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Social Enterprise

RWANDA DEPLOYS WORLD’S FIRST LIFESAVING DRONE PROGRAM

Harnessing drone technology in the race to deliver lifesaving medicine

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Value Chains

Ecuador and Japan: Coincidences?

Views on the earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan find coincidences in similar narratives. What difference does it make if these earthquakes were linked?

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The Week In Review: India's Solar-Energy Plan Hits a Roadblock

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on development and innovation.

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Social Enterprise

#GiftsThatGiveBack

In the spirit of giving, here are some of Global Envision's favorite social enterprises — companies that wear their hearts on their sleeves...and on their shoes, bracelets, hats and Punjammies.

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Social Enterprise

Interview: PSU harnesses business and brainpower to spark change

What does social entrepreneurship mean to someone who lives, teaches, and works it? Global Envision talked to Cindy Cooper, director of Portland State University’s Impact Entrepreneurs program, to find out.