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Using Technology to Build Transparency That Brings Long-Term Support

Allegiance Group

It’s rare to see a charity grow into a juggernaut of an organization. For instance, charity: water has a 100% model , where every public donation funds sustainable clean water projects, and private donors cover its operational costs. Let’s take charity: water as an example. This is where technology can be a game-changer.

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Rapidly Rehousing: A Nonprofit’s Use of Modular Homes

NonProfit Hub

Rapidly Rehousing: A Nonprofit’s Use of Modular Homes When Cyclone Gombe devastated Malawi, it left many families displaced without housing. Through an innovative partnership with Nostos Homes, Habitat built a modular community in rural Malawi in just a week. Traditional rebuilding takes years, leaving victims vulnerable.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. . Fifty-one percent of funding by foundations and public charities was for response and relief efforts. . Some of our key findings include: .

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How America is betraying the hungry children of Africa

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the things I often talk about in my public speaking is the continuum that goes from pure profit orientation to pure charity. Charity is an important and good thing, but charity can be a powerful negative force when misapplied. Most social entrepreneurs I know operate somewhere in between, and for good reasons.

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The Power of Thank You Letters

Connection Cafe

In case you're wondering, Charity Water "invested (my) money with local partners, Relief Society of Tigray (REST) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Ethiopia and Pump Aid in Malawi, to build and rehabilitate freshwater wells and spring protections for people in need." Color me impressed.

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

• women donate twice as many to charities as men do? We’ll hear from nonprofits that have used concrete project-based fundraising to build libraries in India, heat the homes of Native Americans in South Dakota and even send 5,000 girls to school in Malawi. • women make 80% of all household purchasing decisions?

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