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Social Enterprise

For NGOs, self-measurement is rare but precious

Each year, promising new approaches to global problems fail. Better evaluations could tell us why.

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Quotable: Coca Cola CEO on cracking the code for growth

The key to solving the employment issues and, better still, the key to cracking the code for growth—because growth will bring employment to the world—will be generating new models, new models about business opportunities.

Neal Keny-Guyer, Mercy Corps CEO, discusses ways technology can help the poor benefit from the formal financial sector. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/6777384419/">World Economic Forum (flickr)</a>

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Financial Inclusion

Three ways digital cash helps the poor

Traditional financial services aren't working for the poor. The problem? Paper.

Malawian boys are proud of their family's dairy cows. Photo: Jennifer Hyman/Land O'Lakes International Development

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Value Chains

Land O'Lakes finds success with dairy micro co-ops in Malawi

The top US dairy cooperative has brought decades of expertise to Malawi, creating micro co-ops that pool their milk for purchase by one of the country's largest processors.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/abufaiqa/4434157815/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Salim Photography (Flickr)</a>

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Mobile Technology

From designer crops to social stocks: Our top five posts of 2012

It's holiday season here at Mercy Corps headquarters—time for the Global Envision team to look back on our work this year and look to what's next.

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Social Enterprise

Interview: Healthy food carts for kids get a boost from a healthy global partnership in Indonesia

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

Rural Vietnamese hope to benefit from community latrines. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wanhoff/2684767918/sizes/z/in/photostream/"> Flickr </a>

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Value Chains

Unilever will train rural Vietnamese to build demand for toilets

Unilever is rejecting the latrine handout model in favor of a sanitation market sourced and supported wholly by local entrepreneurs.

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Value Chains

Why the biggest brand sometimes isn't the best innovation partner

A new case study of the Ethiopian bean industry includes a depressing anecdote reminding us that innovation rarely starts at the top of the market.

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Social enterprise needs both smart grants and investment

"Philanthropy has more than one tool," writes Felix Oldenburg of Ashoka in Forbes today:

Tienda owners in rural Guatemala stand proudly in front of their store, newly stocked with much-needed health products. Photo: Lindsay Murphy/Mercy Corps.

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Social Enterprise

Guatemala’s Tiendas de la Salud: Where profit and social impact meet

Global companies like Ford are finding that social responsibility programs are key tools for building staff satisfaction, but it's just the start. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fordapa/3940121012/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Ford APA(flickr)</a>

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Social Enterprise

More than ever, CSR is a business advantage, not just charity: Nine

Corporate social responsibility used to be about improving a company’s image, but a fundamental shift is well underway. CSR is quickly becoming a major factor in companies' core business strategies—and a marketplace advantage.

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