Taking The ‘Avon’ Way To Reach the ‘Last Mile’

There has been a lot of talk lately about tackling the “last mile” of health care delivery in the developing world. Getting quality health products and services to the billions of impoverished people living in rural villages and sprawling urban slums remains a key challenge in our fight against poverty and disease…

The Avon of Africa: How Micro-Entrepreneurs Can Fight Poverty

Slaughter was inspired to create Living Goods after learning that Avon, the door-to-door cosmetics sales company, started in rural America in 1876, when villages lacked access to quality goods and women had few job opportunities. Seeing the similarities in Africa today, he decided to apply the Avon model to healthcare in Africa…

Together: Inspiring Change, Delivering Results at CGI 2011

The stories in this film represent a small but powerful piece of the over 2,100 commitments made by Clinton Global Initiative members in the past seven years…

“Girls, Women, & Water” Panel: Featuring Betty Kyazike of Living Goods

A lively panel discussion from CGI 2011 that explores the intersection of women’s empowerment and access to safe drinking water in the developing world…

Avon’s Door-to-Door Model Adopted in Uganda

In Uganda, a U.S. organization is using Avon’s door-to-door model to help consumers get the products they need, but often are unavailable to the — and this month that service is expanding…

How Living Goods Learned a Lesson From Avon Ladies

To find out exactly how this model works, Slaughter signed up to become an Avon rep and learned some tricks that would help him with his business. “Avon has a simple but brilliant tool that we shamelessly knocked off…

Solving The World’s Water Crisis

Kyazike, whose organization helps provide affordable health and water products in Uganda, talked about the need for women to be educated about how they use water. “In our culture women believe boiling water is the best way to purify it, but they don’t bring it to the boiling point…

Move Over Mary Kay, Meet the New Guard of Direct Selling

This isn’t your typical door-to-door. That’s mostly because a lot of the transactions are between impoverished women in developing nations. This social venture is aimed at spurring entrepreneurship, and simultaneously selling affordable health products…

7 Tips for A Social Entrepreneur

Living Goods has perfected a system of micro-franchising whereby the San Francisco-based social enterprise sells health products at rates radically below the market to rural Ugandans, who then sell them at a profit…

Beat Global Health Crises…With Business

Like doctors, these U.S. business executives are dedicated to improving the health of women and children in the world’s poorest countries. But unlike doctors, they wield the tools of modern business to aid some of the most vulnerable people on the planet…

Responsibility Pioneers: How Companies & Consumers Are Changing the World

How companies big and small, old and new — and consumers too — are changing the world…

Living Goods Applies the Avon Model to Healthcare in Uganda

Living Goods started in the health space where I think there is great potential, but the big vision here is a sustainable platform for products and services to the poor. As such, we are expanding into new areas like energy and agriculture…

Integrated Healthcare for the Base of the Pyramid

Living Goods, a social enterprise with more than 600 independent sales agents, uses micro-franchising to distribute products door-to-door in the developing world. It’s focused on a critical and often over-looked issue at the base of the pyramid: access…

A Closer Look at The Business-in-Bag Model

Living Goods was born out of the realization that prevention and treatment for diseases like malaria and diarrhea weren’t lacking, but a systematic mechanism to distribute such items to those in need certainly was…

Finding the Best Charity

Professor of Economics, Tobias Pfutze (Ph.D., New York University) selects Living Goods in GiveWell’s “Find the Best Charity” project…