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  • New Mortgage Program Helps Cambodia's Poor Find Better Homes

    Daniel Zwerdling

    April 04, 2013 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh

    An innovative program by an unusual bank allows low-income people in Cambodia to take out a 15-year fixed mortgage with little or no documentation - contradicting traditional loan assumptions and creating means for some of the country's poorest people to completely change their lives. The bank and its investors are now making a profit, and more than 700 mortgages and building loans have been provided.

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  • A Simple Way to Send Poor Kids to Top Colleges

    David Leonhardt

    March 29, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Many poor students do not attend selective colleges not because they don't want to, but because they did not understand that they could. Basic information can substantially increase the number of low-income students who apply to, attend and graduate from top colleges.

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  • Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories

    Amy Yee

    March 21, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Saving money while conserving water and electricity is a win-win for the textile industry in Bangladesh. After a joint effort to improve the mechanics and upgrade the factories, the industry saw a savings of 1.2 million cubic meters of water, 16 million cubic meters of gas and 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity.

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  • Crowdfunding Clean Energy

    David Bornstein

    March 06, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, a company created an online crowdfunding platform that allows users to earn interest by financing clean energy projects and gives people with good social intentions a direct line of action. Across the world, there is a growing movement toward people-powered clean energy.

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  • Leading the Way Out of Debt

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 30, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Neighborhood Trust is a New York-based nonprofit offering financial advice to individuals experiencing economic hardships. Providing hands-on coaching, counselors are able to inform their clients about financial options they may have otherwise not known about like college financial aid or child care tax credits.

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  • How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World's Problems

    Victor Luckerson

    December 10, 2012 |

    Time Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Like their for-profit counterparts, charities are starting to embrace Big Data as a means to perform more efficiently and share that performance with potential donors. Data gathered is used both to measure successes and to highlight areas where program structure could be improved.

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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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