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November 13, 2020
Sharing Reflections From ANDE’s Annual Conference
ANDE's 2016 Annual Conference was held in Leesburg, Virginia, September 26 - 28, 2016. The event is targeted at high-level executives of ANDE member organizations, including leading investors, capacity development providers, foundations, banks, corporations, and research institutions.
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November 13, 2020
My Summer Project: Impacting Patient Lives
This summer, through a new partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, and with funding from the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), the Innovations in Healthcare East Africa team placed graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University Rwanda with network innovators. These three-month projects focused on high-impact technology projects, such as developing new capabilities for electronic health record systems.
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November 13, 2020
Understanding the East African Ecosystem: Tools Every Innovator Should Know About
Last month, the East Africa Chapter of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) hosted a webinar to showcase ecosystem mapping tools that are being developed and launched throughout the next year. The webinar offered a space for five organizations that have conducted mapping studies to speak about the tools they are developing and current findings.
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November 13, 2020
SEAD Health Hackathon: One Year Later
Last September we held our first ever Health Hackathon at Strathmore University in Nairobi. The event was filled with inspiration and collaboration, and today we update you on where the winners are now. A year later, we remain proud of the hard work of all the participants and sponsors of our Hackathon and continue to cheer for their success!
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November 13, 2020
The Challenges of Raising “Smart” Capital
The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) is obsessed with one question: How do social entrepreneurs leap the chasm from idea to sustainable impact at scale? Based at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, CASE has been tackling this and related questions for the past 15 years.