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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. webinar in collaboration with Candid on Thursday, Nov. Thank you to all the organizations that thoughtfully shared their data with Candid , which helped make this report and associated tools as robust as possible. 18 at 2 p.m.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5 Martus Desktop 4.5

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Can you talk a little bit about why they used arts, and why it was an effective tool? A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention.