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The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust ‘charity’ against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes a middle way she calls patient capital, with promising examples of entrepreneurial innovation driving social change.
Tags: A third way to think about Aid, accountability, affordable clean water, banking, blueprint for alleviating poverty, business savvy, Charity, comicStyle, cultural sensitivity, deliver stunning, drip-irrigation systems, emphasises sustainable bottom-up solutions, entrepreneurial efforts, financing enterprises, financing entrepreneurs, fledgling companies, fledgling organisations, foreign aid, Gail Penney, healthcare for the poor, housing, Ideas worth spreading, identifying solutions, infrastructure, inspiring results, investment, invests, Jacqueline Novogratz, life-altering products, life-altering services, lifeStyle, low-cost mortgage programme, main blog, malaria-preventing bed nets, management expertise, market-oriented approaches, microfinance, mindStyle matters, mistrust reliance on markets, new philanthropy, non-profit, old-fashioned aid, penneylane, penneylaneonline, People don't want handouts, philanthropy, philanthropy and investment communities, problems of poverty, redefining, sound business models, Ted Talk, The Acumen Fund, The Blue Sweater, They want to make their own decisions, to solve their own problems, traditional charity, traditional philanthropy, traditional top-down aid, turnStyle, underserved market, venture capital fund, VidStyle, world's poor, www.penneylaneonline.com
Habitat for Humanity in New Zealand is a not-for-profit Christian organisation that works in partnership with people of goodwill and families in need, to eliminate sub-standard housing by building and selling simple, decent houses on an affordable basis.
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The Gesundheit Institute began as a group of twenty friends, including three doctors, who moved into a six-bedroom home and called it a free hospital. The hospital was open 24 hours a day and
Tags: affirm, alternative, antipodeans, author, birth, blog, blog writer, building, Central hawkes Bay, chrysalis shaped, classroom, clown tips, comicStyle, construction, Dacha, direction, donations, electives, expansion, families, farmhouse, free hospital, friendxs, fundraise, future, gardens, global model, global outreach, Hastings New Zealand, Hawke's Bay, health, health care system, health justice gatherings, healthcare, hospital site, housing, humanitarian, infrastructure, intensives, Jason Frazer, kiwi, kiwiStyle, lake, launch, lifeStyle, maori, medical, medical students, mindStyle, model of care, New Zealand, new zealanders, outside, participate, pasifka, patch adams, Patch Adams Teaching Center and Clinic, patients, penneylane, penneylaneonline, penneylaneonline.com, place of service, Pocahontasz County, polynesian, pontifications, positive, proof of concept, raised, reflections, Robin Williams, rural hospital, sedign, serve, spring breaks, staff, teach, teaching, The Gesundheit Institute, thoughts, turnStyle, twistedmusings.com.au, Universal Studios, views, visibility, volunrteer programmes, volunteer, Waipukurau, where mindStyle matters, wood shop, work, writer, writing, writings
