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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. Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America. Deputy Director Hub; Program Development and Quality Assurance, Action Against Hunger. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Eric Munoz.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I am just back from the Africa Economic Summit in Mozambique. I usually doze off when politicians start their pre-programmed speeches: Chissano was riveting and real. I was very impressed with President Chissano, the former Marxist revolutionary who is stepping down next year after leading his country for 18 years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does. One of the guys from Merck was surprised to see a generic form of one of their drugs, since Merck had donated a ton of this drug to Mozambique's government.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. They have teamed up with the American Islamic Congress and the FREE Syria Foundaiton to bring their “ Interrupters Program ” to over 130 Syrian volunteers working on the ground there.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen. FreedomPop, however, plans to add additional phones to this program later. The CNET review on it is pretty bad complaining of short battery life, a slow processor, and poor call quality.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. But then you go overseas, and my experience, in Israel and Palestine and London and South Africa, Mozambique, people ask you, "What the heck are you doing over there?

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