Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

She noted that each year the Foundation gathers government policymakers from its three target regions (West Africa, East Africa, and India) to discuss best practices in cost-effective interventions in education. This is a hopeful time in the long arc of inclusive education.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

They pull in available government geological data, such as temperature and water height, so that water quality can be estimated multiple times per day. Kiva’s team of data scientists and software engineers partnered with the DataRobot AI for Good program to help solve this problem by improving the way loans are promoted to lenders.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

As a people, we have to tell our own story.” – Evans Okinyi, CEO, East Africa Philanthropy Network Coming from a family of storytellers and strong matriarchs, I was interested in “Black (Women’s) Power: Our Voices.” Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change. “As

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. Prior to her trip to Malawi her biggest problems revolved around school, boys and the mall. I forgot to mention that she has another part-time job and runs the entire organization from her home.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Now is also a good time to present them with a pledge card for their charitable gift.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. So far, so good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Three of my peers had really great ideas for software for solving significant problems in their work, and I’m still excited about these possibilities for collaboration. Just have to find some time and money to tackle them! Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! The thrill of solving problems, of figuring something out, and bringing that understanding into the service of humanity. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Now more than ever, you can’t afford to treat training and the time required away from your office as a perk for a job well done with no real changes after the training is complete. What problems still vex them? What training would help address that problem, and why? Where are the roadblocks to efficiency?

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Connections like this are built over time. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. Alison founded a nonprofit doing development work in Africa. She is now working the field of Artificial Intelligence, working AI-based solutions to planetary-scale problems.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

Jim Shemaria from Grace Ministries International walked in to Interconnection in Seattle and asked for a 20-station computer lab that he could fit in his luggage and take with him on the plane to a school in Africa. It is a sub-Saharan country on the East coast of Africa that is about twice the size of California.

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Tanzania Laptop Africa Seattle 68

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. Local problems, local solutions. Yet there seemed no concern for the dire condition of a dangerous bench, threatening to injure a student at any time. I got this. But that bench.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I believe the best ideas are born from a personal connection and a need to solve a problem that really matters to someone,” says McGruder. “I With M.O.B.B.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At that time, (RED) spoke at length about investments in global health systems, the importance of antiretroviral drugs, and so on. The problem is that they just aren’t engaged around global health. The Global Fund recently launched the Digital Health Impact Accelerator (DHIA), a catalytic fund for digital health in Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

They have 250 part-time staff right now, and they want to grow to 800 staff by the end of 2016. No problem! We get great services from Daproim, and we know that our money is also supporting the development of the new Africa through its smart yet disadvantaged students! Her answer was simple: she simply needs more business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

I am also hopeful that the Benetech story inspires students to harness their unique skills, incredible creativity, and all the new technology at their disposal in order to create groundbreaking solutions that solve intractable social problems and serve all of humanity, not just the top 10 percent of the population.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

TechSoup Global's vice president for Africa David Barnard did. David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). But then you'd have to get up the next day and run another 25 miles (or more).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Don’t just work on the problems that benefit the one percent,” she said at the event, part of a series of Virgin Group sponsored panels with the participation of Virgin founder and billionaire Richard Branson. “My tip for entrepreneurs would be make sure that your innovation truly benefits humanity.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Highlight the Severity of a Problem. Sometimes words alone just can’t convey how worrisome a problem has become, especially gradual ones such as climate change. Many people are under the impression climate change won’t cause problems in their lifetimes, so they don’t feel compelled to take action to stop it.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

While applying to grants can be time consuming, they offer plenty of benefits to nonprofits, such as more awareness for your organization and a positive reputation for the work you do on top of the financial benefits. You can apply for grants 25 times in a year, and applications are accepted on a quarterly basis. Happy writing!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

As someone who travels roughly half the time, it’s important to provide some insight into what’s going on, especially since these meetings often influence where Benetech goes with our efforts. To paraphrase Mark Twain, I didn’t have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote a long one.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2009

It’s the time of year again when organizations, large and small, try to break out the holiday wishes, stories, and campaigns to get one last donation, one last gift and one last pledge in before the new year. I have a very close friend who came to me with a “problem&# a couple holiday seasons ago. A Little Story.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

times (including the grand ones of poverty, dictatorship and natural. This time on June 22 at King’s Place in London, ACTIVATE’s. multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. development in Africa. professional pursuits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Seeing what most people don’t look helps you get ahead of problems. April Rinne Today, April shares these additional insights with us: I believe because of the past 1-1/2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic that readers will find Flux both incredibly useful and at the same time comforting. Run Slower. It enhances your productivity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It takes time for an organization to build a good reputation, but it takes only one publicized issue to ruin it. The problem with this outlook is that it leaves organizations ill-prepared to handle large-scale PR problems. But think it over for a bit, and you’ll soon see that it’s quite applicable to management, too.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good. The Big Question. GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. The Ultimate Outcome. Make It Yours.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Speed up collaboration by allowing users to review time-sensitive work in the cloud in real time from any device, instead of through traditional file-transfer applications and internal servers. Before Box, it had problems with employees accessing content because its internal servers crashed frequently.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. now is the time to give them access. But that’s not always what brings them to you.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Being only a small recurring donor to the Clinton Foundation, I was excited to find myself sitting across the desk of the former president at his New York office and hearing firsthand about the impact of the foundation's work in East Africa. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting. The screen, you ask? My Prediction.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. Entering into a rigorous, time-intensive pay for success contract is likely a better plan if a program is not brand new. and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

] By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. (As

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Million Ton Problem. The scope of the problem makes efforts to organize and strengthen the electronics refurbishment industry in Europe a pretty big deal. Congress multiple times regarding e-waste policy. How times have changed! In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 million tons of electronic waste. and Canada.

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Europe Green Burkina Faso Ireland 53

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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