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How Donorbox powers these nonprofits’ fundraising

Socialbrite

The fundraising software facilitates tracking your donors, accepting online donations, creating social campaigns around your fundraising activities and more. 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. After 12th grade, Shanti Bhavan also covers their university education. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project.

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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They recruited their staff from Nairobi slums as well as students from poor rural backgrounds who had made it to Nairobi universities. Steve went to India for more tests. They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team.

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8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Change is universal and inevitable. Stretching beyond your comfort zone fast tracks your creativity. v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Change is disorienting. Change clouds your horizons and paralyzes your courage. See What’s invisible.

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Smart Canes: Bringing High Tech to a Common Assistive Tool

Tech Soup

What Makes a Cane "Smart" Wired recently published a story about a prototype smart cane called the XploR , which is being built by a research team at Birmingham City University in the U.K. Selene Chew developed the BlindSpot as a project for her senior thesis at the University of Singapore. Concerns About Smart Canes.

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The panel was moderated by Greg Dees of Duke University, one of the leading business school professors tracking and analyzing the social entrepreneurship movement. He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

Data such as that presented in this annual study is important to track as we learn of the impact of investments such as these. Universities & Colleges (5%). This tracks with data from Giving USA, which reported an increase of 3.8% billion), India ($12.0 Private Philanthropy. Foundations (12%). Corporations (19%).

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. Global University of Islamic Finance , in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is working on developing Islamic oriented socially conscious investing in cooperation with Sharia law. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World.