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the best work in the citizen sector to spark action on a global scale.

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Changemakers Innovation Award Competitions

View the winners and finalists now:
Market-Based Strategies that Benefit Low-Income Communities

View all 128 entries from 38 countries

Framework for Developing Market-Based Strategies

Learn about existing innovative models: view the mosaic of solutions

About the competition (assessment criteria and guidelines)

Read the Latest Discussion Post:

Make poverty history
From: Kris Dev, Co-Founder, International Transpa ...
August 16 '06, 8:08
It is possible to make poverty history, provided, we follow some very basic and fundamental rules to life. There is enough resources in the world, to meet all the essential needs of all living beings including human beings. But there is not enough to meet the greed of human beings. Animals have a level playing field - t ...

View the Winners and Finalists in the:
Building a More Ethical Society Competition

• View the 3 winners, 8 finalists and all 79
competition entries from 32 countries
• Explore the Ethics Mosaic of solutions from 13 countries
• Free ethics resource materials In partnership with Institute for Global Ethics

• Recent Competitions

• Changemakers Library:
Advancing Full
Economic Citizenship

Read these four articles about a market-based solutions approach:

From the September 2005 Alliance magazine:
• All Paths Lead to BOP (Bottom of the Pyramid)
• Getting the Private Sector to do its Bit

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