Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

In Part 1 of this fascinating and instructional book, author and Oxford University professor, Paulo Savaget , explains what workarounds are and how to come up with them. The organization I studied in Zambia worked around them by piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution channels.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. He has an MBA in Supply Chain and Finance from Michigan State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness from the National University of Rwanda.

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Hunger Global Impact Rwanda 52

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. He had no idea where his family went.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Without an official or universal definitions of impact, it is becoming increasingly difficult to visualize progress. Our friend at Hewlett Foundation ( @Hewlett_Found ), Margot Fahnestock, pointed out the cultural difficulties with setting up an effective women’s reproductive health system in Zambia.

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Impact Zambia Structure Aggregator 20

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. Well, if you take that 20% from the 100%, you’re left with 80%, right? But you can just do.

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