Bangladesh Foundation Fund 
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
As a result, many companies, including startups, are finding flexible ways to match funds, allowing people to donate in flexible ways that ignite them and their passion. In 2023, Americans gave over $557 billion to charities from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 3, 2011
Longtime Beneblog readers may remember my visit five years ago to Bangladesh, where I was able to visit and write about a cool tech social enterprise, bracNet. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it.
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TechCrunch
JULY 25, 2022
Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. One difference between SIV II and the first fund is that it can writer bigger checks. We align ourselves with a lot of the ESGs.”.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2010
Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint. Tags: WEF social entrepreneurs Davos Schwab Foundation.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 29, 2010
Conversation One Just as I finished my breakfast, I looked across the way and saw Larry Brilliant, the new head of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund. They have expanded from Dhaka to at least ten cities, and are now wrestling with the right way to expand outside of Bangladesh.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
Knight Foundation ; Sharon Pian Chan, Director of Journalist Initiatives, the Seattle Times ; and Joe Neel, Deputy Supervising Editor, NPR. New venture journalism has been incubated thanks to nonprofit and foundation support.” According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. and James L. million in 2009 to $687.6
Candid
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. . Seventeen percent of funding went toward disaster preparedness. .
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