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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. Why is that? 2) How do M-Changa’s crowdfunding services fill that void?

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. A couple of weeks ago, we announced our first cohort on Zero Hunger, focusing on food insecurity in the United States. But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

Saleforce Nonprofit

These days, persistent societal challenges are on the rise: hunger, mental health issues, contagious disease, conflict, chronic inequality, and the climate crisis. An Urgent Issue Today, as many as 828 million people — one in ten worldwide — face hunger, a number that has grown 22 % since the start of the pandemic.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality. We know hunger is preventable, and the event offered an opportunity to rethink how we approach the issue. If you want to go far, go together.”

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. . November 4, 2021.

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Creating Your Generosity Plan: Kathy LeMay, Raising Change

Have Fun - Do Good

She has been a social change fundraiser for 15 years, raising more than $150 million dollars in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement-building. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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Inspire: create, collect, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007. Recognizing the inherent strengths of incorporating storytelling strategy into online communications, Roger Burks , Perla Ni and I lead a session on " Better Online Storytelling.".

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