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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.