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  2. Community economic development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_economic_development

    Economic development has existed even at a basic level since the earliest recorded communities. However, in the US and several other countries, the concept of community economic development emerged "in response to tenacious poverty and the need for affordable housing, good jobs, affordable health care and quality of life matters needed for human existence."

  3. Business opportunity - Wikipedia

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    A business opportunity (or bizopp) involves sale or lease of any product, service, equipment, etc. that will enable the purchaser-licensee to begin a business. The licensor or seller of a business opportunity usually declares that it will secure or assist the buyer in finding a suitable location or provide the product to the purchaser-licensee.

  4. Inclusive business model - Wikipedia

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    An inclusive business model is a type of business model that seeks to create value for low-income communities by integrating them into a company's value chain on the demand side as clients and consumers, and/or on the supply side as producers, entrepreneurs or employees in a sustainable way.

  5. Social entrepreneurship - Wikipedia

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    Using wiki models or crowdsourcing approaches, for example, a social entrepreneur organization can get hundreds of people from across a country (or from multiple countries) to collaborate on joint online projects (e.g., developing a business plan or a marketing strategy for a social entrepreneurship venture).

  6. Community ownership - Wikipedia

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    Community Owned Business This article by the American Independent Business Alliance explains the distinctions between community-owned and cooperative businesses and indexes many examples of community-owned enterprises in different business sectors. "Love a Local Business? Advise it to be careful about selling shares!" blog post by Katovich Law ...

  7. Microfranchising - Wikipedia

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    Many companies and organizations provide business opportunities and services to the poor by introducing scaled-down business concepts found in successful franchise organizations. Although it is sometimes seen as a new development in the social enterprise sector [ 3 ] that follows in the footsteps of microfinance and microcredit , a form of ...

  8. Challenge fund - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, challenge funds are often used as ways to address what development partners describe as a Grand Challenge, which is a challenge fund focused on soliciting proposals around a very specific critical barrier that, if removed, would help solve an important health problem in the developing world, with a high likelihood of global ...

  9. Opportunity management - Wikipedia

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    Opportunity management (OM) has been defined as "a process to identify business and community development opportunities that could be implemented to sustain or improve the local economy". [1] Opportunity management is a collaborative approach for economic and business development. The process focuses on tangible outcomes. [2]