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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the history of nonprofit organizations. When problems emerge, you have to think of new and creative ways to deal with them.

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Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

TechCrunch

” The founders have arrived at their understanding of the market based on a long history in the field, having previously founded GiveDirectly (for charitable cross-border transfers) and Segovia (focused on B2B transfers). You need to have the utmost trust to take that money and send to someone else.”

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Tazah gets pre-seed funding to make Pakistan’s agriculture sector more bountiful

TechCrunch

When asked how they got from ride-hailing to agri-tech, Bajwa told TechCrunch that the two grew up in farming communities. “We But they don’t have a lot of information about market places and supply/demand beyond their communities. to connect farmers and F&B businesses in Vietnam. Kamereo gets $4.6M

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Could this rare bean be the solution to the global coffee crisis?

Fast Company Tech

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change. It’s also working with communities to revive the coffee industry and scale up production.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms. The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Small organizations are often best at forming long-term relationships with community members, whereas large organizations can rally lots of participants for a contributory project.

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