Kenya People Student University 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 29, 2011
As I noted in my first blog on my African trip, I was delighted with the entrepreneurial culture in Nairobi, Kenya. We were introduced to Steve and Daproim through the great offices of Leila Janah and Samasource, the "Give Work" people. It's a for-profit social enterprise, with a focus on employing disadvantaged people.
Candid
MAY 23, 2023
Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
She’s an incredible social entrepreneur I just visited with in Nairobi, Kenya. She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia.
Candid
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital receives $50 million gift. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital has announced a $50 million gift from Grant Verstandig and the Verstandig Family Foundation in support of the Medical/Surgical Pavilion currently under construction. Read more. . November 4, 2021. November 4, 2021. Read more.
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. Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 31, 2014
We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). Around Gender.
Tech Soup
MARCH 7, 2017
women became the majority of law students. According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S. I have noticed that a significant percentage, I daresay a majority, of the people attending the big annual Nonprofit Technology Conferences (NTC) have been women every year. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls.
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