Powering Needs, Empowering Lives from Uncharted Ground, a podcast series produced by SSIR and Jonathan Levine. Each episode of Uncharted Ground tells a documentary-style story about one nonprofit or social entrepreneur’s journey to solve a daunting global problem. This episode travels to India where a social enterprise called SELCO has been transforming the lives of the rural poor with affordable solar power for 25 years. Now, SELCO is expanding its impact by helping other entrepreneurs replicate its model around the world. It’s a story full of lessons about how to design products and services that dramatically improve lives and build sustainable businesses at the same time.
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Leveraging Twitter for Nonprofit Initiatives
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Helping Donors Give Directly to Recipients
Scaling Excellence Successfully
Bringing Technology-Based Learning to Urban Mexico
A Clear View of Social Improvement: Nazava Water Filters
Stoves of Empowerment: How A Household Item is Saving Lives
Social Enterprise through Digital Design
Social Problem Solving through Innovation
Lessons Learned From Walking to the North and South Poles
Delivering Clean Water Using Solar-Powered Pipelines
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Shared Measurement and Big Data For Good
Optimized Social Responsibility Through Evaluation
Implications for the Social Sector
Embracing Complexity in Social Enterprise Evaluation
The Paradoxical Break In Philanthropy
Responsible and Successful Collaboration
Empowering Others to Tell Your Organization’s Story
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