Creating Change through Philanthropy: The Next Generation
How to better engage the next generation and whether there is an ideal age to start engaging the next generation.
Creating Impact That Makes Sense to Funders
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At the AVPN Conference last month, more than 1,200 funders and resource providers from across 40 countries gathered in Singapore to learn best practices to address critical impact areas. With collaboration as a central pillar for scaling strategic philanthropy, it is no surprise that engaging philanthropists was a pertinent topic at the largest social investing convening in Asia.
Creating Positive Social Impact: Reflections and Learnings from IKEA
3 min read We recently released our fourth annual review — reflecting on our methods, initiatives and learnings — and surfacing social entrepreneurs’ positive social impact. The global context In 2022, we saw global crises multiply and their effects compound. The climate emergency, coronavirus pandemic, war and inflation affected people across the world. But in […]
Creative economy and impact in Indonesia: investments, business models and beyond
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To harness the creative economy’s potential for economic development, BEKRAF identifies 3 biggest opportunities to cultivate growth opportunities.
Crevisse’s Accelerator Program Tackles Challenges behind Urbanisation
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Remake City Jakarta – a global impact accelerating program – will be presenting its impact demo day on 30 November 2017.
Find out how Crevisse and its partners have built up 3 investible startups to tackle challenges arising from urbanisation.
Dasra Focuses on Girl Power
Dasra concluded the Dasra Philanthropic Week, a strategic philanthropy conference, in March. The conference aims to provide a platform to address India’s societal challenges and collaborate for greater scale and impact. The theme of this year’s Dasra Philanthropy Week was Girl Power, and it was driven by Dasra’s five-year $14 million strategic alliance with USAID, […]
Data Driven Model to Train The Underprivileged For White Collar Jobs
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The economies of many Asian countries grew through manufacturing low cost products for the rest of the world, which enabled millions of their citizens to step out of abject poverty over the last few decades. However, with an increased focus on keeping costs low, most large manufacturers are moving towards factory automation to reduce the number of workers they need to hire. Smaller scale manufacturers and less developed Asian nations are keeping worker salaries very low while expecting more productivity out of them. Hence, workers in Asia’s manufacturing sector are less likely to move out of poverty than previous generations. A way out of this quagmire is to train manufacturing workers to become knowledge workers, so that they can join Asia’s fast growing services sector.
Data for Inclusive Growth: 4 Ways Policymakers and Social Investors Can Achieve Evidence-based Social Impact
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Hosted by Microsoft Singapore, the Asia Policy Forum Seminar Series convened eminent private and public stakeholders who are driving evidence-based social impact.
Glean strategies and advice to foster successful policymaking and social investment.
Data Innovation for Impact Is the Need of the Hour
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Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer winning the Nobel prize for Economics has been a triumph not just for empirical scholarship on poverty, but for an entire sector that strives to use data and evidence to effect policy change and social impact. The spotlight on the indispensability of robust public systems data has been reinstalled, and this could prove a turning point in achieving development targets and goals using evidence.
DBS and NUS introduce Asia’s Top Twelve Social Entrepreneurs
Identifying and supporting 12 new social ventures that have the potential to generate positive, scalable and sustainable social impact.
Deal Share Live Participant: Creatnet Education’s Systemic Change in the Public School System through Leadership Programs
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Creatnet Education shares their theory of change to empower school leaders to be facilitators of change; private-public partnerships have been instrumental to scaling their work.
Deal Share Live: India School Leadership Institute (ISLI) Optimizes Various Social Investment Capital for Scale
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ISLI shares best practices on catalysing scale and plugging the education leadership gap – embracing various capital & cross-sector partnerships.
Developing the Workforce in Indonesia through Education
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AVPN and YCAB Foundation are hosting a series of events with the objective of expanding the resource provider network in Indonesia. We launched a panel discussion, which aimed to highlight the crucial role of vocational education in generating quality workforce in Indonesia.
Development Impact Bonds: A Not-So-Secret Recipe
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Innovative financing mechanisms are gaining traction in the social investment space. Dasra shares targeted
recommendations for Development Impact Bonds stakeholders to enable effective bonds.
Development of Inclusive Finance in China
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On 15th June 2021, the Ministry of Finance of China issued 9.215 billion RMB of special funds for the development of financial inclusion. 68.8% of the fund is funneled into subsidised interest and incentive funds for guaranteed business loans.
Development Partnerships – Sharing Risks and Rewards
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While formal collaborations between the public and private sectors are now commonplace in aid and development projects, public-private partnerships should also adopt a people-centered approach where people are represented through civil society organizations.
This article is a preview to the Asia-Pacific Housing Forum, held in Hong Kong from September 4-7, 2017.
Digital Education for Students, Job Seekers and Small Businesses – How JUMP is Empowering Overlooked Communities
6 mins read With the support of Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, AVPN (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network) partnered with Merry Year Social Company (MYSC) to launch the USD 1 Million Digital Transformation Fund in 2021. The Fund aims to support non-profit organisations in South Korea to support small and medium business owners and job seekers from […]
Digital Education for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities – Strengthening the Employment Capabilities of People with Disabilities Through Software Education, the Story of SWKorea
7 minutes read With the support of Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, AVPN (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network) partnered with Merry Year Social Company (MYSC) to launch the USD 1 Million Digital Transformation Fund in 2021. The Fund aims to support non-profit organisations in South Korea to support small and medium business owners and job seekers from […]
Digitizing Financial Education: A solution to improving financial literacy and inclusion
4 min read Financial inclusion is identified as a key enabler to achieving eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. To achieve the goals, many governments and civil society organizations have been working on providing access to financial services and products to the unbanked. However, without the right understanding and financial skills among […]
Disaster Preparedness and the Power of Local Leadership
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Disaster philanthropy into Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) plays a catalytic role in relief and recovery efforts in Asia.
Find out how Give2Asia’s successful NGO Disaster Preparedness Program incubated innovations and spurred knowledge-sharing in this field.
Discover Singapore’s Hidden Social Issues with Student Leaders
Toa-Payoh Community Trail – Roads Less Travelled AVPN’s Friday sessions are casual get-togethers once a month for our community and friends, whereby we choose a topic of interest, and have a key speaker start the conversation off. For the month of August we will be having a community trail around Toa Payoh conducted by the students of […]
Doing Good Index: Maximizing Asia’s Potential
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The Centre of Asian Philanthropy and Society (CAPS) highlights 3 key insights that enable and/or impede social investment in Asia.
Don’t Forget “Impact” in Impact Investing – The Case of India
A new study, based on interviewing over 30 stakeholders in the impact investing ecosystem in India, takes stock of the progress of impact investing in India to date, through asking some difficult questions.
Doug’s Founding Journey and Reflections on the Future of AVPN
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The biggest mistake we could make is being too narrow-minded. How do we measure success and add value to members by ensuring more capital is directed towards impact?
Driving Prevention of Cervical Cancer for Foreign Domestic Workers From the Philippines and Indonesia
Every year, more than 500,000 women develop cervical cancer, and 270,000 women die from the disease. Most of these deaths occur in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), where high mortality rates reflect a lack of access to cervical cancer screening. In Southeast Asia, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women, and with roughly 175,000 […]
Driving Progress: Funding Hepatitis Elimination Programs for Lasting Impact
4 minutes read Viral hepatitis poses a significant global health challenge, with 354 millions of people affected by hepatitis B and C. Despite the availability of affordable and curative treatments, progress towards eliminating hepatitis has been limited, especially in low- and middle-income countries. To address this funding gap, a coalition of partners is exploring a […]
Ease of Health Care Approach
5 min read The pandemic has had a silver lining – it reminded every stakeholder of the relevance of resilient, reliable, and professional healthcare, for all. While health for all has long been an aspiration goal for the Government of India and civil society, progress has often been slow and unsatisfactory. One key challenge is […]
Economic Empowerment for Asia’s Women Requires More Support
This article was originally featured on Nikkei Asia here. 5 min read Women bear the brunt of war, pandemics and climate change. Globally, women are 14 times more likely to die in climate events and four times more likely to be displaced because of climate, according to research by Aon and Women+ in Climate Tech. […]
Educate Girls Achieves Transformative Scale with Stage-Based Growth Measurement Framework
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Dasra assists Educate Girls’ expansion strategy by strengthening its program delivery and design – a valuable lesson for organisations working at different stages of growth.
Educate the Communities on NPIs for Mitigating the Health Crisis
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There is an urgent need to educate the masses about the importance of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for combating COVID-19. Based on learnings from the past pandemics, building awareness about executing the NPIs and promoting leadership at community level to ensure its compliance, may help in mitigating the crisis.
Education for All by Deploying Intelligent Capital
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Kaizen Private Equity adopts intelligent capital approaches to combat financially underserved areas in India’s education sector.
Education in the Age of Climate Crisis: How Teacher Autonomy Can Be the Innovation We Need
4 min read From sweltering summers and harsher winters to tangible air pollution and people struggling to catch a breath of fresh air: fighting climate change is a global effort. Vietnam is among the top five countries at the receiving end of climate changes’ catastrophic impact. According to the World Bank (2019), “almost 60 percent […]
Education, Livelihood, and Enterprise Development Tops Key Areas of Interest in Member Survey
AVPN finished the analysis of our 2014 survey responses and wanted to share with everyone some of the key findings. Members expressed that the top four value added areas provided by AVPN included network and interactions with other like-minded people, the annual conference, the collaboration opportunities and the connections. In line with this, members found […]
Embracing Digital-Led Financial Ecosystems for A Better Lifestyle
8 minutes read By enabling convenient and secure transactions, digital financial ecosystems have significantly improved lifestyles, empowering people with greater financial freedom and control. The rise of digital-led financial ecosystems has revolutionized the way people live, enabling swift and efficient transactions, expanding financial service access and empowering individuals by allowing them to take greater control […]
Embracing Youth Participatory Approaches: Our Learnings Along the Way
Co-Author: Tanvi Mishra 6 min read The idea is simple: no programme can be truly transformative until it intentionally embeds and empowers the communities that it is meant to benefit. This belief has driven EMpower’s work. We believe that the greatest experts on girls’ lives are girls themselves. Over the last 12+ years, we have […]
Empowering Women Communities During Times of Disempowering COVID-19
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The COVID-19 experience has removed any doubts about how inextricably countries, communities and societies are linked. It has also clearly highlighted that while responding to crises and providing relief during such global pandemics is critical, what is even more important is building resilient societies and communities that can weather such storms in future.
