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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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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. . As with previous years, this report sheds light on pervasive funding gaps.

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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Conversation One Just as I finished my breakfast, I looked across the way and saw Larry Brilliant, the new head of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund. 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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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

ICA Fund Good Jobs. There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. Moreover, the image is focused on an individual which allows the reader to empathize with the child and imagine her succeeding — and the key stats about the DREAM community suggest she will!

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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 The company seeks to accelerate aid funding distribution and provide transparency in how funds are spent using blockchain. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

The activities funded range from media platforms (55%) to journalism, news, and information (28%), to media applications and tools (6%), and more. The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. million in 2009 to $687.6 Sherry questioned.

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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.