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An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since then, over 10,000 individual fundraisers have raised more than $11 million – including over $1 million for Central African Republic as part of the 2010 September Campaign to bring clean water to all of the Bayaka people. Tell me about this year’s campaign? What are your SMART objectives? Obviously $.

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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

Your phone is always aware of the various networks around it other than the one you’re using — there’s a constant interplay in the background as different towers are queried and your signal handed off to one or another, or re-registering on the network for whatever reason.

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MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy

TechCrunch

his time there made him aware of the societal and financial challenges affecting Africans in remote places and theories of how bitcoin and blockchain technology could help. Prior to MARA, Nnadi ran Sustainability International, a non-profit organization that managed community-led solutions for solving UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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