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As TOMS Outgrows Shoes, Six Suggestions for Buy-One-Give-One Products Six Ideas for Buy-One-Give-One Businesses that Help the Poor

TOMS shoes pioneered the the buy-one-give-one model, melding first-world consumption with third-world aid. With each pair of TOMS shoes you bu

Bikes
With My Own Two Wheels has been lauded by the World Bank for showing that bikes can be "the missing lin

Cell Phones
Cell phones have become a tool of development. They can be used for community education, to

Banking
There are real benefits to microsaving programs that let the poor store small amounts of extra cash in a secure place. The problem, though, is that tiny deposits do

Maxi Pads
Laugh if you want, but pads are tools of development. The Campaign for Female Ed gives maxi pads to girls because

Schools
School supplies make a lot of sense to give because kids stay home from school when they don't have access to pencils or uniforms. But let's think even bigger. What if a school, or a chain of charter or private

Vaccines
It might not be as easy to market as TOMS shoes, but what if you were given the choice every time you got a flu shot or other vaccine to fund the vaccine of someone in the developing world?
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