MSA’s focus on social franchising extends back more than twenty years, supporting NGOs, donors, government agencies, and social franchisors.

Implementers and funders of social franchising will dramatically improve their bottom lines when they understand the fundamentals of franchising discussed in this article.

A discussion of how the social and micro franchising communities of practice can collaborate so that the social franchising field of practice can advance more rapidly.

This new model of social franchising will dramatically accelerate the growth of the fourth sector by facilitating the replication of proven for-benefit businesses.

While an increasing number of social enterprises are meeting social needs, most are operating at a scale far too small to make a meaningful dent in global problems.

REPUBLIC OF RWANDA Ministry of Health PRESS RELEASE  Kigali – A new partnership is announced today which brings together One Family Health (OFH) Foundation, GSK, Ecobank, on one hand and Healthstore Holdings (HSH) and the Rwandan Ministry of Health on the other, in a coordinated effort to establish 240 health posts across Rwanda over the…

The conference is sponsored by several major government, university, and private foundations focused on the critical need for health care in the global market.

Michael Seid, Managing Director of MSA Worldwide, addressed three classes of graduate students taking the “Business at the Base of the Pyramid” course at Harvard Business School.  Together with Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the HealthStore Foundation and Greg Starbird, Chief Operating Officer of CFWShops, Michael discussed the Harvard Case Study “CFW Clinics in Kenya:  To…

“On behalf of the board of directors, management and the whole team at The HealthStore Foundation® I would like to take this occasion to congratulate Michael Seid on his election to the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association (IFA). As one of the most active and effective members of our own Board of…