By Tom Bird | Project Leader
Read about the progress made by the human capabilities fund projects.
KickStart's Impacts To Date: • 50,000 new businesses started • 800 new businesses per month • $52 million a year in new profits and wages generated by the new businesses • New revenues equivalent to more than 0.6% of Kenya's GDP and 0.25% of Tanzania's GDP
Here is a link to an interesting article about Nick Moon and KickStart: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2312165,00.html
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Women for Women leadership convened in Rwanda during April to work on the strategic plan with a particular emphasis on how economic opportunity fits into the organization’s future. Helping women in war torn regions move from “victim to survivor to active citizen” is the goal.
The more mature Bosnia operation is likely to develop as a leader in the back-end economic opportunity efforts over time.
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The Global Health Project has benefited from a “listening tour” by Jim Kim as he has been out and about asking for feedback on the initial set of ideas. The team has assembled in the new Harvard School of Public Health FXB Center offices, and has started to generate a promising talent pipeline. Rebecca Weintraub has come on board to direct the project, coming from both an entrepreneurial background given her participation in the founding of the wildly successful nonprofit Jumpstart, and a healthcare pro given her experience at Brigham and Women’s as a physician.
The vision here has an academic hub component, a methodology/technology for collecting and disseminating the learning from the field, and actual projects on the ground that serve patient needs.
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