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  • Training Youths in the Ways of the Workplace

    David Bornstein

    January 24, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The non-profit program Year Up is getting low-income young people into jobs by training them in the culture of work. The organization pairs companies—which help fund the training period—with interns from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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  • Helping the World's Poorest, for a Change

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 07, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City, Distrito Federal

    This is a column on an important new development program in use in at least 40 developing countries: give the poor cash payments, contingent on their use of health clinics and their children’s school attendance, to help break the cycle of poverty.

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  • Green Strategies for the Poorest

    Tina Rosenberg

    November 19, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Elgeyo Marakwet

    The company that manufactures Lifestraw, a water purification device, has found a way to distribute their product to impoverished Kenyan families for free, while still making a profit. In the global carbon credit market, businesses receive carbon credits for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These credits can then be sold to companies who need to offset their carbon emissions, allowing green companies to make a profit off of their small ecological footprint.

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  • Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits

    Tina Rosenberg

    November 15, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The company that manufactures Lifestraw, a water purification device, has found a way to distribute their product to impoverished Kenyan families for free, while still making a profit. In the global carbon credit market, businesses receive carbon credits for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These credits can then be sold to companies who need to offset their carbon emissions, allowing green companies to make a profit off of their small ecological footprint.

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  • Filling the Gap Between Farm and Fair Trade

    David Bornstein

    October 25, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nicaragua, Managua, Managua

    The non-profit Root Capital created a lending initiative in Mexico which helps mid-size rural farmers gain access to capital, skills, and consumer markets from which they would otherwise be excluded.

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  • Can Ice Cream Help Pull Rwanda Out of Poverty?

    Lee Middleton

    June 19, 2010 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Butare

    The opening of an ice cream shop in Butare, Rwanda is a small part of a larger effort to bring joy and personal health and happiness to communities who otherwise "ceased to believe they deserved it." A nonprofit based in Brooklyn -- and founded by owners of the popular ice cream shop Blue Marble -- pays for English classes and business training for the women running the shop as an effort to help the managers stay in the business of giving their neighbors joy.

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  • Harnessing the Wind with Scrap

    Sam Burcher

    May 08, 2009 |

    Science in Society |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Mastala, Kusungu District

    A bright young man named William took it upon himself to bring electricity to his small, rural village in Malawi, despite having few resources at his disposal. William invented a windmill using recycled materials, and successfully generated power for his home. His incredible ingenuity attracted international attention, inspiring others as far away as Portsmouth University to design windmills that are financially and physically accessible for the world's rural poor living off the grid.

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  • Social Entrepreneur Peru: Albina Ruiz and the Ciudad Saludable

    Matthias Kopp

    September 02, 2008 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Peru, Pucallpa

    Albina Ruiz, founder of the social enterprise Ciudad Saludable, works with people living in areas dominated by the trash dump to create a more formal system of waste removal for their health and the wider city's cleanliness. Workers who collect and recycle the waste are now employed by the city, own a micro-business, and no longer work under a social stigma. At the same time their efforts to clean up the city are working well, and the model is spreading to other Peruvian cities.

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