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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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For example, they started a community-driven savings and loans program to help offset displacement costs or provide the funds needed to create a new business. They now work to help women and girls in over 100 countries by launching programs in local communities that have a direct and long-lasting impact.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.