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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. I use examples like Victoria Hale’s nonprofit pharma companies, that take drug ideas that don’t make enough money for traditional pharma, but could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They hit on three major pain points for nonprofit donors: Most donors prefer to know that their money goes directly to helping people rather than to operating costs (hence the “100% model”). Donors often feel confused about where their money ends up or don’t really trust that it’s being used as promised (hence “proving it”).

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