Date: October 12th, 2010 @ 18:30
Location: 1 London Bridge, London, SE1 9BG
Panelists: Ben Powell, Founder of Agora Venture Fund and Mark Cheng, Director of Social Finance at Ashoka
Partner: Refreshments kindly sponsored by Ashoka
Register: http://impactinvestment.eventbrite.com
Ben is using Agora to demonstrate to donors, future business leaders, and investors that investing in impact entrepreneurs in the developing world is an effective means to fight poverty and unemployment. Like Muhammad Yunus used Grameen Bank to demonstrate the feasibility of banking to the poor, Ben is using Agora to show that entrepreneurs in the developing world are a profitable target for socially impactful investment.
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See full article on the event at http://london.netimpact.org.uk/somewhere-in-the-middle/
Organizing Community For Empowerment Objectives After completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. explain how to organize community components to develop ownership of interventions and take action, and 2. summarize the types of relationships between beneficiaries and community development agents in a humanitarian assistance context. This module provides students with the skills and attitudes necessary for getting all the partners organized in a way that will allow them to become less dependent. For that purpose, this module will discuss issues and approaches related to the relationships between community development agents and beneficiaries which foster and reinforce ownership and an endogenous development. A. Assessing social problems B. Empowering community through participatory approaches C. Partnership or patronage
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