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		<title>The most important impact investing conference….that has nothing to do with impact investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The purpose of the university…is impact, not output.” - Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University. I’ve just returned from the future, and I’m pumped. Ashoka U Exchange 2012 was a fantastic conference. Unlike many conferences out there, this one had a clear &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/the-most-important-impact-investing-conference-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-impact-investing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Tegu is using Social Media to Fight Poverty in Honduras</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/how-tegu-is-using-social-media-to-fight-poverty-in-honduras</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Grainger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARKETING, MEDIA, &#38; DEVELOPMENT Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – social media terms now dominate the language of mainstream marketing. Companies around the world have adopted a barrage of digital tools to debut new products, gain feedback from consumers, and, more generally, communicate &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/how-tegu-is-using-social-media-to-fight-poverty-in-honduras">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Key Camps at the Heart of the Impact Investing Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like many people, you are new to impact investing, have a mild notion of what it is, and believe that it could be important, maybe even revolutionary. But this notion is tempered by massive confusion surrounding the &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/three-key-camps-at-the-heart-of-the-impact-investing-movement">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CO2 Bambu: How Bamboo is Impacting Education in Rural Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/co2-bambu-how-bamboo-is-impacting-education-in-rural-nicaragua</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Grainger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rural Education Rural education in Nicaragua is struggling. Official UNICEF figures narrate the story in grim statistical detail. With a net attendance rate among rural primary school students of 70.5%, only 19.1% among rural secondary school students, and a startling &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/co2-bambu-how-bamboo-is-impacting-education-in-rural-nicaragua">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Former Agora Fellow Starts Impact Business: Pitaya Plus</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/former-agora-fellow-starts-impact-business-pitayaplus</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/former-agora-fellow-starts-impact-business-pitayaplus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Grainger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are very proud of former Agora fellow Chuck Casano who has gone on to found his own Nicaragua-based impact business, Pitaya Plus. Pitaya Plus is described as “the one and only Pitaya juice, smoothie, and dry fruit company in &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/former-agora-fellow-starts-impact-business-pitayaplus">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An End of Year Message to our Supporters: Thank You</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/end-of-year-message-to-our-supporters-thank-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Grainger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 has been a very important year for impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, and Agora Partnerships. There is a new movement afoot. It addressed critical global issues like poverty, inequality, and climate security through the power of entrepreneurship. This movement says: &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/end-of-year-message-to-our-supporters-thank-you">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agora&#8217;s 2011 Accelerator Class &#8211; A Summary</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/agoras-2011-accelerator-class-2011-a-summary</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/agoras-2011-accelerator-class-2011-a-summary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Grainger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agorapartnerships.org/?p=4402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In January, Agora Partnerships selected its first Accelerator Class consisting of nine entrepreneurs committed to creating social value through business. Through the successful expansion of their businesses, Agora entrepreneurs are creating jobs for low-income workers, selling products and services &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/agoras-2011-accelerator-class-2011-a-summary">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude to the Servant Leaders of B Lab</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/gratitude-to-the-servant-leaders-of-b-lab</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I walked into one of the most beautiful and magnificent rooms I have ever seen &#8211; the walls were completely covered in vines and flowers. In front of me were three charming men, each offering me and the other &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/gratitude-to-the-servant-leaders-of-b-lab">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Antony Bugg-Levine: “My biggest failure at Rockefeller Foundation”</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/antony-bugg-levine-%e2%80%9cmy-biggest-failure-at-rockefeller-foundation%e2%80%9d</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antony Bugg-Levine Last week I sat on a panel at Columbia Business School’s Social Enterprise Conference moderated by Antony Bugg-Levine. As some may know, Antony’s influence on the creation of the impact investing industry has been massive. In his capacity &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/antony-bugg-levine-%e2%80%9cmy-biggest-failure-at-rockefeller-foundation%e2%80%9d">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Panel at SOCAP &#8211; Building the Impact Entrepreneur Movement.</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/panel-at-socap-building-the-impact-entrepreneur-movement</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlowsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agora staff and entrepreneurs are live at SOCAP. We'll be liveblogging their panel today at 1:45PM PDT. Stay tuned! <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/panel-at-socap-building-the-impact-entrepreneur-movement">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can we sprinkle SoCap’s pixie dust to the developing world?</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/can-we-sprinkle-socap%e2%80%99s-pixie-dust-to-the-developing-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, over a thousand people will descend on Fort Hood in San Francisco for Social Capital Markets or SoCap. The conference, in its fourth year, is a paean to the sustainable capitalism movement and will be filled with the kind of people who are, relative to the rest of the populations, off-the-charts optimistic.  <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/can-we-sprinkle-socap%e2%80%99s-pixie-dust-to-the-developing-world">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs vs. Empresarios</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/entrepreneurs-vs-empresarios</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/entrepreneurs-vs-empresarios#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside Silicon Valley, the world is not so enthusiastic about entrepreneurship. In Central America, where we work, the word has a stigma. <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/entrepreneurs-vs-empresarios">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting Entrepreneurs with Investors.</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/connecting-entrepreneurs-with-investors</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlowsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within 48 hours of completion of the Investor Conference, Agora Partnerships helped catalyze over U$3.5M in potential Impact Investments <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/connecting-entrepreneurs-with-investors">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tegu: The Wooden Block. Reinvented.</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/tegu-wooden-block-reinvented</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/tegu-wooden-block-reinvented#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlowsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accelerator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honduras]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tegu is a high-end manufacturing company innovating the traditional building block to give children better materials to play with at the same time as sending Honduran children to school on scholarship. <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/tegu-wooden-block-reinvented">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Be a Part of the Accelerator&#8217;s Second Class?</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/will-you-be-a-part-of-the-accelerators-second-class</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/will-you-be-a-part-of-the-accelerators-second-class#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mchamorro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CO2 bambu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agora is now accepting applications and nominations for the Accelerator program. Whether you are an impact entrepreneur or simply know of one, share your information before August 31st! <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/will-you-be-a-part-of-the-accelerators-second-class">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Built to Last</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/built-to-last</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/built-to-last#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kkeating</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agora Partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bamboo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[base of pyramid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben sandzer-bell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agorapartnerships.org/?p=3991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met Ben Sandzer-Bell, founder of CO2 Bambu, a few weeks into my internship with Agora when he dropped by our office between meetings with potential funders and USAID representatives. What struck me instantly about Ben was the sheer enthusiasm &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/built-to-last">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact Investor Conference: Disruptive Innovation</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/the-impact-investor-conference-disruptive-innovation</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/the-impact-investor-conference-disruptive-innovation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccastro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua, a groundbreaking event orchestrated by Agora recently took place, one matching impact investors with impact entrepreneurs.  A little more than $5 million was sought in Series A and angel funding across nine Agora &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/the-impact-investor-conference-disruptive-innovation">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agora Impact Investor Conference</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/agora-impact-investor-conference</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/agora-impact-investor-conference#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlowsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Agora Partnerships Impact Investor Conference in Granada, Nicaragua.  We&#8217;ll be liveblogging here, livetweeting in English @agoraprtnships, and livetweeting in Spanish @agoraes.  Please join us!]]></description>
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		<title>Agora Entrepreneur:  Ostuma Story</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/agora-entrepreneur-ostuma-story</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/agora-entrepreneur-ostuma-story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ccastro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agora Accelerator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agora entrepreneur]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agribusiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guillermo Jacoby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact entrepreneur]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LiderES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matagalpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ostuma Farms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ostuma Farms cultivates high-quality vegetables for the gourmet market using environmentally-friendly practices and production techniques that guarantee consistent quality.  Its main customers are supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels in local markets. Ostuma&#8217;s goal is to become the largest Nicaraguan exporter of &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/agora-entrepreneur-ostuma-story">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Francisco Noguera Repost</title>
		<link>http://agorapartnerships.org/francisco-noguera-repost</link>
		<comments>http://agorapartnerships.org/francisco-noguera-repost#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlowsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agora Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francisco Noguera June 22, 2011 — 02:45 pm Agora&#8217;s Recent Entrepreneur Retreat, in Granada. Agora&#8217;s Impact Investor Conference: Accelerating the Central American Deal Flow In the midst of all the talk and philosophical discussions about the promise of Impact Investing, &#8230; <a href="http://agorapartnerships.org/francisco-noguera-repost">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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