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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. Finally, we invite you to explore our updated funding map to answer such questions as: Where did funding for a particular disaster come from?

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

This Impact Lab cohort sets out to address the question: How might we enable female, small-scale farmers in maximizing food production and planning proactively? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh.

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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 Microfinance institutions like Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank are asking the question, “Why can these people not be served by banks?”

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

Sherry questioned. 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. How will citizens inform themselves and become engaged in the future, beyond the way that daily newspapers have dominated in the past?”

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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. either way, as Tess Thompson of the Arch Words blog , notes about the article, "[T]he underlying question-- What is the best way to help lift poor people out of poverty? --is

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

NTEN

Hightlights from a short talk with Paul Schmitz, Public Allies Everyone Leads A Leadership Story outlines the many players in the Montgomery bus boycott, which begs the question, who was the leader of the boycott? Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The big question everybody asks me is what I'm going to do differently. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. But, I don't feel that way! And my answer is not much: I'm just going to do more of what I've been doing.

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