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Mercy Corps Mobile Money Turns Phones Into Wallets for 100,000-Plus Haitians

Mercy Corps partners with Trilogy to deliver financial services to Haiti's unbanked.READ»

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Mercy Corps Deploys Water Treatment Systems to Pakistan With Help of High-Tech Firm, ITT

Only a few are deployed, but thousands are helped.READ»

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What's Next For Social Capitalism?

A friend of mine from college has always been committed to fighting international poverty. First she worked for some of the big aid organizations like Mercy Corps and CARE. Then she took a job with a more entrepreneurial, ...READ»

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World Food Day: Mercycorps Unveils Action Center to End World Hunger

Right now, more people are hungry than the populations of the US, Canada and the EU combined. In an attempt to combat world hunger, MercyCorps has opened the Action Center to End World Hunger in downtown Manhattan.READ»

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How to Help Pakistan's Flood Victim

Millions in Pakistan need clean water, sanitary food, housing and medical care. Organizations are now on the ground helping those displaced by the worst floods in 80 years. Here's how you can support their efforts.READ»

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U.K. Launches Innovation Fund for International Development and Aid

The announcement comes just after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announces its very own innovation ventures investment fund.READ»

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Social Entrepreneurship

 There is a movement across the globe today that says solutions to society's most pressing social issues cannot be left up to the government to determine. Social entrepreneurs are business owners that decide to take on ...READ»

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The 10 Best Social Enterprises of 2009

We have found them: Nine bold and timely ideas that wow us -- and that have earned these organizations a place alongside Enterprise Community Partners on our honor roll of 2009 Social Enterprises of the Year. Will all of these ...READ»

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Smartphones to the Rescue in Burundi

The UN World Food Programme's latest experiment is with smartphones as data collectors.READ»