Working in a Finance capacity in the development sector makes it easy to get detached from the ‘front line’ and lose track of the organization’s ‘raison d’etre’ from time to time. I would find myself…
A young girl walks up a mountain road. Not quite twenty yet, her thoughts are full of the celebrations planned for the annual day event on the morrow, and the outfit she is going to…
Mothers2Mothers is game changing and award winning NGO that focuses on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. It features an innovative “mentor mother” model where HIV positive women teach and help community healthcare…
I recently had the privilege of visiting some schools in low-income neighborhoods of Cap Haitien, to observe some of the school feeding programs that Meds and Foods for Kids (MFK) is conducting through a grant…
After several months without going to the field, I finally got a chance this week to return to rural Rajasthan where Educate Girls’ runs its program. For me this is probably the most exciting part…
Alex and I have been quite busy lately at Educate Girls… Many exciting projects are taking shape, meaning that the work load is constantly increasing. A great opportunity for us to learn more and to…
July in Florencia tastes like rain, it is the month in which it only takes two minutes for a light drizzle to become a storm. Once it starts you just don’t know when it´s going…
If it would be easy, comfortable and with no loss at all, what would be the merit in joining a social cause through a fellowship program such as ICats – Impact Catalysts? If those “comfortable”…
Two weeks ago I attended SPIEF (http://www.forumspb.com/#) in St. Petersburg (SPG), Russia. It is one of the biggest conferences in Russia, very much modeled after the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Putin’s…
The growth of impact investing and social enterprise is a promising addition to the social sector but few organizations focus on what may be the most substantial type of investment: public goods. Today, the growth…
I went to my INSEAD 10-year reunion over the weekend in Fontainebleau (FBL), 55 klms outside of Paris. I also attended its Entrepreneurship Forum and Private Equity conference – I will get to that later…
Last week, young Sita from Kinwarli, Rajasthan, got beat up and thrown out of her husband’s house after she went against his wishes and took her 10th grade exam. Since her in-laws wouldn’t allow her to…
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