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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Click here to learn more Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments (part 2)

ASU Lodestar Center

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. Relief organizations and others could get an immediate picture of what was happening on the ground. Since then, there have been more than 6.5 Image : Olga Berrios / CC BY. spanhidden.

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[PODCAST] Broaden Your Message With Influencer-Driven Campaigns | Ft. Jeanette Russell

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Those institutions were business, government, nonprofits and media. When President Obama was visiting Nepal, the campaign wanted to have the President to mention a group of people who was being persecuted at the time that the local government wouldn’t let anyone talk about. It was something they didn’t want anyone to know about.