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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

Government has a rich legacy of social entrepreneurship. as well as the national governments of much of the developed world, robustly practices variants of high-capacity governmental social innovation today, such as the myriad programs countering the global Great Recession. As always, we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions!

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. . The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $3.2

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. In his role, he supports country partners in developing and delivering solutions to support agriculture development. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Emma Visman. Eric Munoz.

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First day in Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. Hilde Schwab, co-founder of the Schwab Foundation, welcomed us to the event, and highlighted the role of social entrepreneurs in the Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) that the WEF is pursuing.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government. Several governments have recognized the power of Twitter relations, actively seeking to connect with their peers around the world. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls. I heard a wonderful story about a woman from Bangladesh who just scrimped to save a dollar to contribute to them. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people. They are making progress.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. Microwork may, then, represent a crisis of work in its fullest etymological sense: that is, a turning point.

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