Editor’s note: In this guest post David Ellis, Managing Partner of Flow Equity, argues for more investment in developing world businesses that earn too much to qualify for microfinance, but too little to attract commercial investment. The barriers to development in Uganda are manifold. Charities need to work smarter. Democracy has to work better. But at [...]
To think of all non-profits as comprising a homogenized “non-profit sector” obscures the realities of running any non-profit organization to the point of irrelevance. The term “non-profit” encompasses several subsectors which face drastically different challenges. To talk about “business” is equally pointless. We tend to talk about the software industry, or automobile industry. When we [...]
