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Bangladesh

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My next stop after Mumbai was Dhaka, Bangladesh. I flew to Kolkata (Calcutta) which is very close to Bangladesh and then took an older jet to Dhaka. Bangladesh is distinctly poorer than the potions of India I visited, but it was also had simultaneous pockets of wealth and poverty side by side.

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George Hara: Public Interest Venture Capitalist

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Longtime Beneblog readers may remember my visit five years ago to Bangladesh, where I was able to visit and write about a cool tech social enterprise, bracNet. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it.

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A Sneak Peak at Who Is Taking the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bangladesh 2.1%. White/Caucasian 83.3%. Top 10 Countries. United States 24.5%. Singapore 14%. Israel 13.3%. Argentina 5.1%. United Kingdom 4.9%. Spain 3.7%. South Africa 3%. Australia 2.9%. 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. Published in ????????????,

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Benetech Analyzes Key Bangladeshi Human Rights Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my recent blog postings, I documented personal impressions during my recent trip to Bangladesh. Silva's analysis presented in the report, " Judge, Jury, and Death: Torture and Executions by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force." This post takes a look at how Benetech is helping to document human rights abuses in that country.

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bracNet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A very exciting part of my visit to Bangladesh was meeting with the team at bracNet, a for-profit internet company that is partially owned by BRAC. bracNet has so many possibilities in Bangladesh: will they be the Craigslist there? I had met Khalid Quadir, the CEO, when he was doing a Reuters Fellowship several years ago at Stanford.

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BRAC

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. Abed has accomplished an incredible amount since founding BRAC more than 30 years ago, but he is charging forward with expansion both inside and outside of Bangladesh.

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UNICEF Shares 4 Ways to Reverse COVID-19’s Impact on Children

Saleforce Nonprofit

Nur Zannat, 6, holds a paper folding fan she crafted in a UNICEF-supported learning centre in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. . • Invest in the untapped potential of young migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people. Photo credit: UNICEF. Protect children from deadly but treatable diseases.

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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Conversation Three When I got back late to the hotel and stopped by the bar, I found the founders of Waste Concern of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah getting a late dinner of sandwiches. They have expanded from Dhaka to at least ten cities, and are now wrestling with the right way to expand outside of Bangladesh.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup Blog

Mikey has published two books, including the Bradt Travel Guide to Bangladesh. He also founded the Positive Light project, a crowdsourced and crowdfunded photography project and coffee table photo book that is changing the way the world sees Bangladesh. Mikey had the opportunity to speak at TEDxDhaka on Positive Light. Bailey Rosser.

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Vinod Sena in memoriam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. Vinod Sena in memoriam I had a very unfortunate reminder of the fragile state of each human being this week. Professor Vinod Sena was a retired professor of English literature at the University of Delhi.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Based in Bangladesh, BRAC is one of the largest international development organizations in the world, and their 2018 Annual Report uses innovative design elements to present their numerous programs and initiatives in an accessible way. Full disclosure: Fight CRC is a Whole Whale client, but we really do love their annual report!).

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Waste Concern

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Plus, they are expanding into other areas of sustainability work, such as solar powered water pumps in rural Bangladesh. The topic of hybrid for-profit/nonprofit enterprises is a big one for me, and these guys are busy setting one up to greatly expand their operations. In a great way!

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004.

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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. For example, in Bangladesh, people mistrust nonprofits, but they are more open to individuals. Please take five minutes to watch the video – it’s excellent.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup Blog

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff. software.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Davos Flavor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Almost everyone here does something interesting, and you are more likely than not find a common interest with someone you would never would have a priori guessed would be passionate about human rights, or technology, or the political situation in Bangladesh, or environmental change, or.

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First day in Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. We then joined the social entrepreneurship dinner.

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And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes To.

Have Fun - Do Good

According to the organization's web site: The Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. With 2,226 branches, GB provides services in 71,371 villages, covering more than 100 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh. As of May 2006, it has 6.61

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India.

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Blockchain Explained: Risks And Opportunities For Philanthropy

Global Giving

This is particularly critical when these services are developed and tested on people who are already facing major risks, like Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Like any new technology, it’s important to consider the social implications of blockchain before rushing to build new social services around it.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

For example, during the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, an example of a good op-ed could discuss this issue from a local''s point of view. “While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. Write an op-ed that talks about the issue from the local context.”

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened.

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

Across the globe there are many recent and well-known cases of social entrepreneurship that follow this pattern of independent sector or civil society working with government, such as Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen family of ventures and Fazle Abed’s BRAC in Bangladesh. The Early Bird deadline ends tonight! Click here to register to attend!

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A Round Up of Food Charities and Causes to Fight Hunger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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NetCentric Advocacy: Connectivity is Productivity:

Network-Centric Advocacy

His own experience as a child in Bangladesh and later a banker in New York brought him to realize that "connectivity is productivity" -- and that a simple cell phone has enormous power. Posted at 10:20 AM in Advocacy Strategy | Permalink | Reblog (0) Comments Connectivity is Productivity: Here is a line I will use again and again.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup Blog

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The Muslim world has a population of one and half billion people or just under a quarter of the world’s population. Another interesting fact is that most Muslims don’t live in the Middle East.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects.

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques. t have a set plan or any previous experience doing something like this. s why this project is called ???uncultured??? uncultured??? Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty.

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To Profit or Not To Profit, That Is The Microfinance Question

Have Fun - Do Good

On October 13th Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank, which provides credit to the rural poor of Bangladesh. Microfinance and microcredit are all the rage among do-gooders right now.

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The Purpose Prize

Have Fun - Do Good

Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh. As this article from The New Mexican reported: The market's original planners envisioned not just a commercial venture to benefit the folk-art museum, but a platform with socially redeeming, trickle-down qualities.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Service (Paul Schmitz, Soma and Rachael Chong, Catchafire)

NTEN

When you have a volunteer experience that makes you question your life or see that someone in Bangladesh is the same as you, it makes you more passionate to give back for the rest of your life. We want to drive the talent to nonprofits. 2) The volunteer experience has the power to transform a person to give for the rest of their lives.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

charity: water even has an entire section of their site dedicated to stories from the field, where people who work for or collaborate with the nonprofit tell stories about the experiences they’ve had bringing clean water to people in Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh and more.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Myopia undoubtedly affects those at the furthest reaches of other supply chains too – someone stitching garments in Bangladesh for Primark may not know, ultimately, which company their labour serves. For algorithmic sorcery to remain the rarified precinct of data mystics and arbitrageurs, new kinds of economic blindness must be conjured.

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Donor Perspective: BRAC – An example of scaling success

Charity Navigator

Giving back is crucial to my wife and me. We use a disciplined process to identify nonprofits for investment and collaboration. Several questions drive the best fit for us, especially given unique issues and opportunities for international organizations.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Breaking: PETA Exposes Hell for Animals and Children in Bangladesh. Give Now to See Your Name on KDKA-TV! Help Stop Offshore Drilling in SC. You Can Spark a Vital Movement. GivingTuesday is changing the world – and so are you. Happy Human Rights Day. December E-news: Happy Holidays. Your gift will be TRIPLED!

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

Have Fun - Do Good

I heard a wonderful story about a woman from Bangladesh who just scrimped to save a dollar to contribute to them. A one page letter in a woman's handwriting in her own language is all you need to apply to the Global Fund. The other thing is that they genuinely treat people as equals.

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Solutionary Women: Anna Lappé of Grub

Have Fun - Do Good

And in that book we were really interested in hearing the voices, the stories of people around the world that were addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

WHO And here’s a picture of a very happy lad, Mithu, in Bangladesh, proud of his improved pit latrine. The engagement got a lot of responses and WHO retweeted many of the pictures with the intent to fostered an understanding of what not having a toilet means. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.