Paul Polak (1933-2019) and Team

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

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/OutofPov…

- 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

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/w… via @DesignObserver #socent #poverty #green #EarthDay #Water

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

"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/7i796m32c… @iDEorg

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

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

"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/f…

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%