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Kipp and Philip of the Social Development Network in east Africa

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I've just ended an exciting three week long Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. Uchaguzi was a crowd-sourcing tool SODNET worked together with Ushahidi to deliver around the recent Kenyan referendum. Given the election violence of a few years ago, this is a major area of work in Kenya to help prevent a re-occurrence.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. As we look forward to 2015, we recognize that much work remains to be done, and we definitely need your continued support.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

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A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. Martín has worked tirelessly to disseminate the social innovations he has created in Paraguay throughout the world.

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Daproim and Steve Muthee, its founder

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We were introduced to Steve and Daproim through the great offices of Leila Janah and Samasource, the "Give Work" people. Leila's dream has been to connect the people of East Africa with dignified digital work, and connecting Steve to our Bookshare team has been highly successful for Daproim, Samasource and Bookshare!

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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

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His idea is straightforward: he believe the Middle East/North Africa region is ripe for values-centered for-profit social enterprises that can both make plenty of money and deliver social benefits.

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Caltech: Founding Values

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Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

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Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period. Incredibly, the high-quality work continued to flow from Daproim uninterrupted. Daproim has more than 7600 applications from Kenyan students who want to work there. No problem!

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