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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Here’s a summary of a few of the top ideas: AgriTextBot Info Hub: A tool for farmers that responds to localized questions and provides up-to-date, real-time information on topics from market pricing to weather indicators and farming support, through a guided conversation and accessible via a feature phone. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

Have Fun - Do Good

What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. They will absolutely destroy the environment, and it will be the breeding ground for wars, for civil strife, for terrorism, and for refugees. It took us about 15 years in America before cell phones actually took off, and people started buying a cell phone.