Acceleration
Angel Networks in Emerging Markets
Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development – when new businesses launch and grow, they create jobs, address customer needs through market-based solutions, and drive demand for other products and services from a supply chain. With this knowledge in mind, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other development institutions have increasingly […]
Colaborativo angel network case study
Colaborativo runs several, connected entrepreneurial services to promote sustainable development in Latin America – an accelerator, an online community platform, an angel network, and a recently launched fund. Carrie Gonnella May 2020 Read the case study
Highlights from the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke
Launched in 2013, the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) was a five-year collaborative project between the U.S. Agency for International Development, CASE, and Innovations in Healthcare. Through engaging 25 global health social ventures within a learning accelerator, leveraging of the impact investing ecosystem, a implementing a robust research agenda, and involving students and faculty, […]
Healthcare Innovation in East Africa: Navigating the Ecosystem
50% of all hospital admissions and deaths in Kenya are related to non-communicable diseases. By 2030, non-communicable diseases are projected to be the leading cause of death in Africa. This is just one statistic that highlights the healthcare challenges East Africa faces. Yet even with these challenges, a system ripe for innovation and opportunity exists, […]
Opportunities and Challenges for Global Health Impact Investors
A collaboration between CASE, IPIHD, Calvert Foundation, and Investors’ Circle, produced as part of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke with funding from USAID, this project set out to understand the landscape of current sources of debt and equity financing for global health enterprises in India and East Africa. Interviews with investors revealed two main […]
Accelerating Impact Enterprises: How to Lock, Stock and Anchor Impact Enterprises for Maximum Impact
By Cathy Clark, Matthew H. Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro As a potential extension of its pioneering work on impact investing, the Rockefeller Foundation commissioned us to be part of a global research consortium aiming to understand the needs of impact enterprises around the globe. One of the foundation’s initial questions was, if impact […]
Accelerating Impact Enterprises (Presentation)
Goal: Understand better the evolution, potential, and needs of domestic impact enterprises and to identify philanthropic, private, and public investment opportunities to increase the likelihood of success among impact enterprises and the emerging “impact economy” in the US. By Cathy Clark, Matthew Allen, Bonny Moellenbrock and Chinwe Onyeagoro 2013 Presentation_Clark_AcceleratingImpactEntrepreneurs_2013