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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. By this year, the program projects reaching more than 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia with direct services. million adolescent girls and more than 4.2

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country.

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[FREE WEBINAR] How to Use Behavioral Economics to Build a Successful Monthly Giving Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, the psychological factors that govern whether a donor will opt into a monthly giving program are still not well understood. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality. This can go beyond other nonprofits to include government, academia, and the private sector. Moments can start with unexpected champions.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained. He advocates a Feedback Principle of Public Reporting where organizations publish beneficiary feedback so that the information flow is not top down, but instead people centered.

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Silicon Valley’s Developing Conscience: It’s Called Apple

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In our quest to build better products and better meet the needs of the world for information, we built the most amazing system for effortless government surveillance as a byproduct. And, without encryption of this information, the makers of smartphones had effectively handed those secrets to governments. government.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Why Small-Scale Farmers? That number is expected to increase in the face of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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