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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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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. Eric manages the Food and Climate Justice Unit at Oxfam America, part of the Food Systems Unit. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Eric Munoz.

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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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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

The drone then drifts over the home of someone who has just logged onto the site Scale, which sources workers across the Middle East and Latin America to label images used to guide automated drones systems. Vendor management systems (VMSs) add a further layer of opacity to already murky chains of outsourcing.

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