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How to Promote Matching Gifts to Your Audience: 4 Best Practices

CauseVox

You’ve worked hard to build up relationships with corporate sponsors, a major donor, or compiled a matching grant application, and now you have successfully secured a matching grant for your campaign. For example, on the campaign Together For Gambia, anytime someone donates $8, another care package is added to their impact metric counter.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

We see all kinds of interesting applications for we build, and these are some of the leading schools in the country. The platform is available in other markets, such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, the UK, Liberia, Gambia and the US, but Shagaya said uLesson has spread in these countries via word of mouth.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

They have already developed, tested, and iterated the concepts through the initial pilots, which included a hack-a-thon for child sponsorship in Uganda and an eight week youth entrepreneurship training and mentorship program in The Gambia. Learn more about how your team can get involved with V2I.

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Google Maps makes it easier to share your location without an address

The Verge

Tapping the pin reveals the location’s Plus Code, alongside latitude, longitude, and a street address (if applicable). An example of somewhere where a Plus Code could be useful can be found in this BBC article from last year, where a journalist describes the process of giving their address to set up a bank account in The Gambia.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

Coinciding with this investment is the introduction and scaling of a third layer that focuses on end-user applications. “Most of these companies operating in end-user applications have to depend on services from core banking and interbank processing to be able to get their own offerings out there.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Facebook is rejecting a request from The Gambia to help it investigate the genocide in Myanmar, saying the request was “extraordinarily broad” as well as “unduly intrusive or burdensome.” It’s operating under a playbook popularized by marketing groups like Jerry Media and accounts like @thefatjewish. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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