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Industree Craft Case Study: A Case Study in Social Enterprise Development using the Four Lenses Approach

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights Industree Craft’s many notable strengths, while also illustrating potential implications of Industree’s hybrid structure and its impending scale-up process, the challenges that lie ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2009)

Beyond SATs, Finding Success in Numbers

By looking beyond SAT scores, and creating groups of students to attend college together, the Posse Foundation is changing the way some universities define success. ...

(case/model, webpage, 2012)

APOPO Case Study: A Case Study in Social Enterprise Development using the Four Lenses Approach

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights APOPO’s many notable strengths, and illustrates potential implications of APOPO’s shift towards a social enterprise model, the challenges that lie ahead, and the lessons this case ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2009)

On the Ground with Comprehensive Community Initiatives

This publication summarizes the major programs of the 10 initiatives studied in the area of neighborhood revitalization. It discusses program issues including sources and amounts of funding as well as positive individual and neighborhood impacts. This ...

(case/model, text, 2000)

TEMASOL: Providing Energy Access to Remote Rural Households in Morocco

In Morocco, despite the government’s efforts to expand its grid-based coverage, about 9% of the rural population could not be cost-effectively connected. Given that Morocco enjoys 3,000 hours of sun per year, solar energy was therefore thought to be a ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

PPKT: Working With The Community To Grow The Business

Due to the abundance and ubiquity of coconut trees and plantations in Indonesia, there are potentially enormous social and commercial benefits that can be gained from integrating local communities in the production of high value coconut-based products. ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Olam Nigeria Limited: Insight into Innovative Business for Profit Maximization, Employment Generation and Development of the Farm Sector

Olam Nigeria Limited, as the country arm of Olam International Limited, is a supplier of raw and processed agricultural commodities. The company’s business portfolio cuts across the total product supply chain from procurement of farm products to ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Pot-in-pot Enterprise: Fridge for the Poor

Mobah Rural Horizons, producer of the pot-in-pot products which is widely termed as the ‘fridge for the poor’ is based in Kano, Nigeria. The region lies in the desert scrubland and is inhabited mainly by poor subsistence farmers living under the influence ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Kheir Zaman: A New Player in Food Retail

This is a study of an Egyptian company which is contributing to the development of retail trade among low-income people. In the process of giving them better purchasing opportunities it is also developing the capabilities of informal suppliers to be ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE): Linking Small-Scale Farmers to National and Regional Markets

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) is a Kenyan micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) that provides a forum through which small-scale farmers can access mainstream markets for agricultural commodities. Kenya has three main commodity exchanges: ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Esoko Networks: Facilitating Agriculture Through Technology

Esoko Networks owns and operates Esoko, a technology-based market information system (MIS) classified as agricultural informatics or e-agriculture. Esoko provides agricultural stakeholders like farmers and traders with market information such as prices, ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Case Studies: Local Food & Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives in the United States

This working paper compiles best practices from four communities and six local initiatives providing local and sustainable food, highlighting communities and organizations across the country that pursue innovative projects to increase sustainable and local ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

Making Tractor Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

Aware of the unmet, increasing demand for farm mechanisation, PrOpCom (Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets) sought to redress the scarcity of tractors available for land preparation in Nigeria, and in so doing engage with the ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

Making Fertiliser Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

From 2008–2011 PrOpCom facilitated interventions aimed at improving the commercial marketing and distribution of fertiliser to the poor in Nigeria. When PrOpCom first contemplated whether or not to intervene in the fertiliser market, industry experts ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

2007-2011 Strategic Plan - A Summary of PSI's Five-Year Plan

This example of PSI's five-year strategic plan summary should be used by other practitioners as a model for designing and developing their own strategic plan summaries. ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes

A plethora of investments is emerging across multiple asset classes that provide investors with market-rate investments, or for more altruistic investors, substantial social impact, while still generating positive financial returns. The old binary system - ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Government and Social Innovation: Current State and Local Models

This article offers an analysis of other models that have developed over the past several years, especially in the three years since the founding of Louisiana’s Office of Social Entrepreneurship. At all levels of government, these new frameworks for ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2010)

On the Social Sustainability of Microfinancing and the Role of Environmental Sustainability in this Context Case Study: Chile

This study investigates the social sustainability of current microfinance activities and the role of environmental sustainability in this context. It presents a case study of microfinance sustainability in Chile. ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

A New Approach to Community Empowerment and Ending Poverty

The Village Development Partnership has been successfully implemented in over 400 villages in Thailand and some Southeast Asian countries. Through business skills training and the power of micro-credit, the Village Development Partnership has improved the ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

AAC's Success Story

In response to the absence of an investment facility which focuses on the development of private initiative in the agriculture sector in East Africa, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Volksvermogen NV have established African ...

(case/model, video, 2010)