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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. Funding socially minded businesses co-creating social benefit and financial returns should be welcomed actors in community. [1]

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments (part 2)

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. Funding socially minded businesses co-creating social benefit and financial returns should be welcomed actors in community. [1]

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia.

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