Father of #SocEnt movement. Author: Out of Poverty & Business Solution to Poverty. Founder Windhorse, SpringHealth, Transform Energy, @IDEorg & @EqualizeHealth
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Joined January 2009
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Paul Polak (1933-2019) and Team retweeted
Companies like Walmart, Coca Cola and Microsoft will fail if they don't learn how to operate in emerging markets.
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How iDE Installed 1.5 Million Treadle Pumps In Bangladesh By Activating The Private Sector :
THE PRACTICAL STEPS
By Paul Polak
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"What the world needs now is a revolution in big business that serves the common good while serving bottom line profits"- Paul Polak
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3/ "Out of Poverty" by Paul Polak (@OutofPoverty): Dives into the author's work of developing practical solutions to poverty.
Key lesson: Truly understanding a problem is the first step in finding sustainable solutions.
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#TBT : "I believe that ending extreme poverty can have a greater positive impact on the environment than just about anything else we can do."—Paul Polak @OutofPoverty
dedicated his life to the 1 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day. designobserver.com/feature/t…
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“90% of the worlds designers work only for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. A revolution in design is needed to change that silly ratio!”. -Paul Polak
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A short-time later, Paul started our first country office in Bangladesh, making strides helping farmers double and triple their incomes by growing vegetables outside of the rainy season by creating access to affordable irrigation devices called treadle pumps. #ChangeNotCharity
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Women across the world are leading the way in sustainable entrepreneurship.
Working with Sama Sama, Adam is helping bring sanitation to her community, while breaking down gendered perceptions of entrepreneurship.
ALT A woman with a black headscarf holding a shovel, smiling at the camera.
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RT iDEorg: RT @OutofPoverty: While increasing food production was successful. it did little to eradicate extreme poverty When very poor people find ways to grow their income, they find their way out of poverty more efficiently than disaster relief or foo…
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Spot on. Furthermore, the subsidies and schemes in the name of the poor actually reduce employment opportunities for them. This happens because of taxes that finance them. The taxes severely stifle businesses that are the true source of wealth creation and poverty eradication.
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Why technology alone will never provide sanitation for the poor ht.ly/ukax30cV3V1
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"You can take any problem and find a practical solution. The trick is, you have to quit telling and just listen." Dr. Paul Polak, MD'58 (@OutofPoverty) is a social entrepreneur. At 85, he is still innovating to end global poverty. #purpleandproud alumni.westernu.ca/alumni-ga…
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The “appropriate technology” field, is “dominated by tinkerers and short of entrepreneurs.” - Paul Polak nyti.ms/2GEqi5k
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Check out my full interview with The Godfather of social entrepreneurship, Paul Polak.
Just… instagram.com/p/BNJBb9-gE-A/ – at Los Angeles, CA
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Paul Polak from @OutofPoverty suggests a new breed of frontier multinationals in order to end poverty. unreasonable.is/effective-wa…
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We need to change the way we approach development. We need to see the poor as customers rather than charity recipients - Dr. Paul Polak
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Nice profile on the late Paul Polak, one of my heroes & a #socent legend.
Paul taught a whole generation of social entrepreneurs the importance of putting aside what you think people need and listen to what they actually want
“You can take any problem and find a practical solution. Any problem.
The trick is, you have to be willing to quit telling and just listen.”
-Paul Polak
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Paul Polak (1933-2019) and Team retweeted
Announcing the 2020 Paul Polak Scholarship from
@SVADSI. This $10k a year #scholarship is awarded to an incoming student in the class of 2022. Just one of the many ways we hope to carry on Dr. Polak’s honorable legacy and innovative spirit. bit.ly/2Ky8nRI #WhyDSI
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We lost a giant in the field of social entrepreneurship with the passing of Paul Polak last weekend at the age of 86. This is our tribute to him. ow.ly/D50B50wQKtn