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PEARS PROGRAM NEWS & EVENTS |
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The Pears Program has moved! |
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SAVE THE DATE! Pears Challenge 2017 Demo Day |
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Ten months ago, a group of Israeli entrepreneurs took up the Pears Challenge to develop innovative, profitable ventures with the power to change poor people's lives in India.
After half a year of intensive work with some of India's top healthcare players, the 4 ventures with the most promising affordable healthcare innovations went to India to validate their ideas.
Join us as our returning entrepreneurs talk about their journey and discuss their solutions with a panel of global healthcare experts and investors! Register here and join our Facebook event. When? November 14th, 2017 | 6PM to 8PM Where? Google Campus Tel Aviv |
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During DLD week, the Pears Program for Global Innovation & Tech For Good Israel, in partnership with the 8200 Social Program, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv Global City, Herzog Fox & Neeman and Urban Place hosted the 2017 Global Impact Exchange - an exciting round table evening event with impact startups, investors, incubators and experts from around the world showcasing technologies changing people's lives. Entrepreneurs from more than 15 countries such as Myanmar, India, South Korea, Chile, Peru, Slovakia, Latvia, Western Europe - all winners of the StartTLV competition 2017, showcased their disruptive tech solutions and participated in gloves off discussions on healthcare, smart cities, education, agriculture and IT along with some of the leading figures of the Israeli innovation ecosystem. |
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Come meet global sustainability and impact leaders who will discuss the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, the potential of cross-sector collaborations, and their perspective on the global development of the Israeli social-tech ecosystem. Speakers include representatives from P&G, The World Economic Forum, Steering Group for Impact Investing, Anthos Asset Management, The Red Cross, Deloitte, and The Invisible Hand Company. The conference will be followed by a startup pitch competition. Aside from the opportunity for international exposure and connections, winning team will receive a cash prize of $7,500 from Bank Leumi. Further details, registration and application to the competition here When? November 30th Where? Tel Aviv Stock Exchange |
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Sankalp Forum, an initiative of Intellecap, aims to influence the global inclusive development discourse through its work with entrepreneurs, impact investors and inclusive businesses in developing markets. Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap to create a thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past seven years, Sankalp has built one of the world's largest impact enterprise focused platforms that has supported over 900 social enterprises with connections to over 400 investors, mentors, and business support providers. In it’s 9th year in India, Sankalp Forum will be designed to crowd in support and scale up the conversation around social enterprise, impact investing and inclusive development to the global mainstream. When? December 7th - 8th, 2017 Where? Mumbai, India More info & registration here |
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Launched by the Government of Australia and other partners (including the World Bank), the Water Data Challenge is seeking breakthroughs that cost-effectively improve smallholder farmers’ productivity, income, or resilience. Applications are accepted from innovators, entrepreneurs, start-ups, researchers, non-profits, and government agencies. Winners will receive funding up to $230,000 for pilot-stage proposals (proof of concept), and up to $1 million for test and transition (demonstration) proposals. Applications are currently being accepted, and are reviewed on a rolling basis. More info here |
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Applications for the 4th cohort of the 8200 Social Program are now open! |
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Are you a social entrepreneur with a dream to make the world a better place? Join the 4th cycle of the 8200 Social Program - a 5-month accelerator filled with workshops, events, and meetings with successful entrepreneurs, top-tier professionals in various domains, and prominent investors - to get the best tools for accelerating your venture, including access to the exclusive network of the 8200 alumni. Deadline for applications: November 15th, 2017 More details here |
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Techstars launches an impact accelerator for companies focused on social and environmental impact Techstars has launched a new accelerator focused on impact technologies. The Austin-based accelerator will begin accepting applications in December 2017 for a June 2018 launch. Read more |
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Soapy believes that everyone has a right to basic hygiene. Over 3 million people die every year and more than a billion suffer from diseases resulting from lack of hygiene. Many of those lives could be saved by a simple solution - hand washing. Soapy is a self-sustained, cost-effective and accessible to all hygiene station with a 24/7 flow of clean water and smart disinfectant distribution system. The system extracts the humidity in the air, mixes it with soap and provides safe water for washing hands and face. Soapy will target at first government schools and clinics in India where access to clean water and soap is scarce. The team is currently running its first pilot in India, in partnership with one of the country's largest social enterprises. Soapy is a finalist of the Pears Challenge 2017 and the winner of the Novus Demo Day Competition. |
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INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT NEWS |
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Keheala awarded $600,000 from USAID to scale TB intervention in Kenya The USAID Innovation Ventures (DIV) program has awarded Keheala (Pears Challenge 2014 alumnus) a $600,000 grant to scale its demonstrated tuberculosis (TB) intervention in Kenya. With this funding, Keheala will enroll a diverse patient population across Kenya’s geographic, cultural and socioeconomic spectrums. A four-sided randomized controlled trial (RCT) will compare Keheala’s cost-effectiveness with alternative adherence interventions. The Stage 2 grant was issued following a successful proof-of-concept that showed that patients using the Keheala intervention benefitted from a two-thirds reduction in the unsuccessful treatment outcomes - death, failed treatment and loss to follow up - compared to the standard of care control group. Founded in 2014, Keheala is a mobile health company that improves healthcare access and treatment outcomes by empowering patients with information, motivation and support, all across basic feature phones or smartphones. Keheala addresses the non-medical drivers of disease that exist away from health facilities while providing healthcare agencies with the remote-monitoring capabilities and analytics necessary for combatting epidemics in resource-constrained environments. |
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Can these 'stovers' finally crack the clean cooking problem? Inyenyeri, a Rwandan company that provides cookstoves to households at no cost in exchange for customers buying their wood fuel pellets, announced at the Clean Cooking Forum in New Delhi, India, that it has raised more than $20 million in loans, grants, and the sale of carbon credits. Read more |
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Rwanda rises 22 places in the Global Competitiveness Index in 7 Years! This makes Rwanda the most competitive country in the East African Community and third most competitive in the sub- Saharan African region. Read more |
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Giving Capitalism a Social Conscience Muhammad Yunus has recently written a new book, “A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions,” in which he argues that capitalism is in crisis and remains moored in a flawed conception of human motivation. He proposes a far more robust role in the economy for “social businesses,” which he defines as “non-dividend” companies “dedicated to solving human problems.” Read more |
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