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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

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Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets. million in seed funding.

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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A methodology for experimenting, piloting, and ultimately adopting new channels. Go… Does your nonprofit have an institutionalized process for researching, piloting, and adopting energing technology? 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage. Caption Contest. Caption contest. What does it look like?

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The Right Way to use Social Media for Fundraising: Wildlife Direct

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the next decades, we’ll see rapid adoption of social media for many nonprofit purposes, including fundraising and as gen y's come into their own as donors. These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The head of our group, Patrick Ball, is spending most of this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with the United Nations on a range of human rights issues (of which the DRC has many). Men being trained to use Martus to enter testimonies.Our human rights team is active all over the world.

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Francophone African super app Gozem grabs $5M to expand and offer more services

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It’s a model other super app companies across Africa have adopted in the past, such as Nigeria’s OPay (which has since shelved its super app plans to strengthen its financial services arm) and SafeBoda more recently. Other players like North Africa-focused Yassir are also looking to offer banking and payment services.

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How to Find Your Way to Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Keep a gratitude journal, or make monthly gratitude collages Participate in a fundraising walk for a cause I care about, like Women for Women International's Run for Congo Women. Adopt another pet. Sew something that people need, like pillowcases for the 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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Similarly, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, PATH is working with the in-country EOC and partners at Bluesquare to build a Tableau dashboard to track 22 different diseases. The future of data-driven health.

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