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COVID-19 case study: Changing funding practices in Europe

Candid

Many European funders have seen their ability to focus on a longer-term perspective to target systemic change as a strength, as opposed to operating in a crisis mode. After a steady decline in extreme poverty rates over the past two decades, inequalities between countries have been on the rise again as a result of COVID 19.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The option was developing a sophisticated filtering system to edit out the offensive words was not possible. So, the workaround was to post “Allah is watching” on the site and the cursing rate dropped dramatically.

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Cloud 4 Good

In pursuit of this mission, EFE has become the leading nonprofit training MENA youth and linking them to jobs in a region with the largest youth population and the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. Technology plays an inherently important role for organizations, such as EFE, connecting offices worldwide through a central system.

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