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NPC publishes pre-election manifesto on third sector effectiveness

16 March 2010
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With elections looming in the UK, and the non-profit sector dependent on the government for a third of its income, there is lively apprehension in the sector as to what the election results will mean for that income. In anticipation, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) has produced a number of recommendations for the government (of whichever political complexion it happens to be) on improving the effectiveness of the third sector. Click here to read ...


Pratham wins fifth Kravis Prize

12 March 2010
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Pratham, India’s largest educational non-profit organization, has been awarded the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership. Founded in 1994, Pratham aims to improve the quality of education for India’s most vulnerable children. Its flagship programme, Read India, works with governments and communities to improve the reading, writing and basic arithmetic skills of children aged between 6 and 14 and has reached around 34 million children to date. Click here to read ...


Online fundraising website Bmycharity to close

11 March 2010
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UK-based fundraising website Bmycharity is to close next week after a sponsorship deal collapsed, leaving it without the resources it needs to continue. The site, which was set up in 2000, stopped taking commission charges in October last year, stating that it would instead be funded by business sponsorship. Earlier this month, the firm announced it had recruited its first corporate sponsor, financial services company Interactive Investor – and managing director Ben Brabyn said the company had not pulled out of the sponsorship deal. Click here to read ...


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Chilean quake, following Haiti emergency, may strain resources of aid agencies

15 March 2010
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A number of aid agencies have expressed concern that ongoing rebuilding efforts in Haiti may affect their ability to respond to last month’s earthquake in Chile. Even before the earthquake, the US Agency for International Development last month alerted some relief groups that government funding for foreign disaster assistance could be affected by the cost of operations in Haiti. Click here to read ...


Global Partnerships extends operations to Mexico to provide ‘more affordable’ microfinance

15 March 2010
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IDB support for community participation project to bring gas to low-income communities

15 March 2010
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The Inter American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting the development of a community participation project to increase the provision of gas supplies in greater Buenos Aires. FOMIN, the Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund, will provide a $3 million loan and a $690,000 technical assistance grant to equip low-income communities to organize themselves to make a collective demand for gas services, build additions to the external network and install home service connections to the network themselves. Click here to read ...


International Finance Corporation to finance ‘systemic change in Mexican retailing’

15 March 2010
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IFC, the World Bank’s investment arm, has signed a long-term agreement with Sistema Integral de Abasto Rural, SA CV (Mi Tienda), to finance an expansion of Mi Tienda’s operation. The proposed expansion will create 36 distribution centres, whose main target group will be rural shops in 14,740 small Mexican villages. In addition to providing necessities such as food and consumer goods, Mi Tienda’s distribution system will provide a platform for services such as insurance, payment of utility bills, branchless banking and microcredit. Click here to read ...


‘Hybrid’ partnership key step in cross-sector cooperation for Mexico

15 March 2010
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Ashoka, the network of social entrepreneurs, and Fundemex, the foundation created by the Mexican Council for the Coordination of Business, have launched a partnership to promote what they call hybrid value chains – collaborations between social entrepreneurs and businesses that will use the strengths of both sectors to create, among other things, new products, channels of distribution and access to finance which will benefit poorer communities and provide greater access for businesses and social enterprises to those communities. Click here to read ...


Conferences and events

15 March 2010
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23-26 March
ANDE Latin America Conference: Growing Small Businesses in Latin America
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Granada, Nicaragua
Contact www.andelatinamerica.org

7-9 April
6th GIFE Congress on Private Social Investment: 2020 Vision
Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Philanthropedia publishes self-assessment

9 March 2010
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