Paul Polak (1933-2019) and Team

Paul Polak Built Better Tools for Farmers in Poor Countries wsj.com/articles/paul-…

A Deeper River By Paul Polak I have in me a deeper river That flows toward the light It does not ask me where to flow It flows And I flow with it And then the river becomes the light And we are one Poem by Paul Polak ( 1933 to 2019) facebook.com/groups/OutofPo…

- Paul Polak - The Future Corporation youtu.be/ezVxt7TkyeM

"If you want to reach scale you have to follow basic economics and not just be a do-gooder. Always remember that in any business it’s a crime to throw away anything of value. The only way to get to scale is to make more money." -Paul Polak

By employing these 8 #Design principles in an integrated, bottom-up design process, you can fashion an enterprise that will truly help millions of severely poor people move out of poverty: paulpolak.com/design/ #SocEnt

SPRING HEALTH Delivers clean #water to over 30,000 households (over 150,000 people) on a daily basis. Is operational in over 250 villages in rural Odisha, India. Provides home delivery of clean water for $0.07 per day paulpolak.com/spring-health/ springhealth.in

Companies like Walmart, Coca Cola and Microsoft will fail if they don't learn how to operate in emerging markets. youtu.be/ezVxt7TkyeM?si…

Practical solutions to extreme poverty already exist. If organizations like @iDEorg have helped some 40 million extremely poor people move out of poverty, what’s stopping us from scaling up the market driven approaches that can do the same for a billion people?" -Paul Polak…

Why Ending Poverty Is Greener Than Green! by Paul Polak designobserver.com/feature/why-en… via @DesignObserver #socent #poverty #green #EarthDay #Water

How iDE Installed 1.5 Million Treadle Pumps In Bangladesh By Activating The Private Sector : THE PRACTICAL STEPS By Paul Polak paulpolak.com/wp-content/upl…

Want to Scale-Up your Development Project? Make a Bollywood Movie - Dr. Paul Polak paulpolak.com/how-bollywood-…

"What the world needs now is a revolution in big business that serves the common good while serving bottom line profits"- Paul Polak

"The point i was trying to make in the blog is that the challenge of figuring out what to do with your life is pretty much the same, whether you’re living on 3 dollars a day or a few million dollars a day." - Paul Polak How Much Money is Enough? paulpolak.com/how-much-money…

Affordable #Water projects and micro l-irrigation early #socent #impinv #biz to put a dent in extreme #poverty maybe late 1980's? dropbox.com/scl/fi/7i796m3… @iDEorg

"Paul hadn't been working on poverty...He’s a business junkie who saw a big marketing opportunity where nobody else recognized it. A good businessman’s resourcefulness and relentless drive to make things profitable for everyone" @cherylheller designobserver.com/feature/forget…

There are 6.5 Billion people on this planet, 90% of whom can’t afford basic products & services. Nearly 3 billion people, don’t have regular access to food, shelter or clean water. Yet when we talk, about design, it’s about something that’s intended to be sold to the richest 10%

@NextBillion Yunus is wrong when he insists, as he has done so frequently in recent years both in his books and in public appearances, that the solution to global poverty lies in forming "social businesses" that never distribute profits to investors paulpolak.com/is-it-wrong-fo…

Mohammad Yunus is wrong when he insists, as he has done so frequently in recent years both in his books and in public appearances, that the solution to global poverty lies in forming "social businesses" that never distribute profits to investors paulpolak.com/is-it-wrong-fo…