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Impact investing: Catalyzing systemic change 

Candid

The Rockefeller Foundation has followed a similar trajectory, divesting from oil, investing in climate solutions, and leveraging public-private partnerships to facilitate multilateral investments and expand access to capital in Africa. trillion , noting that investors cite broad progress across key indicators of market growth.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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By this year, the program projects reaching more than 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia with direct services. As the executive director, you facilitate an International group that is service-oriented and driven by women. million adolescent girls and more than 4.2

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C For example, AfrikaVuka , the digital organizing platform for 350 Africa, is a climate organizing platform now engaging about 100 groups across the continent.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse. Network assessment.

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Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

Tech Soup

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. To explore ways to integrate the already large informal recycling sector in Africa in ways that provide income and also ensure personal health for these workers, and environmental health for Africa.

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A New Year: A New Learning Journey Begins

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.