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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa. Ninety five percent of the money donated to Centscere goes back to the intended charity, so ‘like’ and comment away. 7) The startup that connects volunteers based on skills. All hail small (and local) business.

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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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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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