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How Social Enterprises / Entrepreneurship could be different



Food banks / pantries could be like grocery stores

Low-cost, easy to use / maintain, irrigation pumps could be available to small-scale farmers

Post-harvest losses from smallholder farmers could be reduced with moisture testing / hermetic bags / threshing services / warehouses

Homes in developing countries could have healthier / durable / affordable floors

In-home toilets with waste collection could be available in areas without sewer systems

Toilet paper could fund sanitation projects / be made from bamboo or recycled fibres

Vending machines / ATMs could sell processed, safe milk / foods from small farmers

Porta-potties could make waste collection / conversion easy, provide jobs, and include handwashing stations

Products / local industries could have an "economic nutrition label"

Trash could become cash / rewards in developing countries

Social enterprises / nonprofits could have financing during disruptive events

Highly fertile, fast growing, and disease-resistant chickens could be available in developing countries

Mobile e-commerce could be brought to developing country consumers

Engineering companies could have divisions to address global challenges

Free smartphones / solar chargers could be provided to poor, rural women using an advertising-based revenue model

Entrepreneurs could treat, package, and distribute water in reusable bottles to communities

Photography could support nonprofits / charity

Refugees could be trained as baristas

Nonprofit funding could be like venture capital

Businesses and nonprofits could be pay-what-you-can

Why not design bank accounts or debit cards for drug addicts?

Nonprofits and social enterprises could be listed on "social impact exchanges"

Cheap, healthy fast food could be available

Organizations could hire people with disabilities

Organizations could have open hiring practices / hire people with barriers

Microinsurance could be offered to low-income people

Affordable, eco-friendly menstrual pads / cups / discs could be made by and sold to women in developing countries

Government contractors with public interest in mind could oversee other contractors

Launchange

REDF could be a model for workforce development organizations

DoGoodCon May 27-29 NYC

Digital game design techniques could be used to engage people and motivate behavior

B1G1 organizations could create more development