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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

Generosity isn’t just about money – it’s about connection and community,” Asha Curran, GivingTuesday’s chief executive officer said via a statement. “In This shows needs in communities remain high. Each donation, each act of generosity, is a building block for community solutions that actually make a difference.”

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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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

TechCrunch

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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YouTravel.Me packs up $1M to match travelers with curated small group adventures

TechCrunch

We understood that and built a community and educational product for them on how to build and scale their business.”. It happened that it was the same time that he was vacationing in Sri Lanka where he was one of very few tourists. “Sales and tourism crashed down, and we didn’t know what to do,” she said. “We

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. As the week progressed, we considered the difficulties faced by Afghani groups who seek to build an NGO community in a place of conflict with few resources.

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Bangladesh-based Maya, a startup focused on accessible healthcare, raises $2.2 million seed round

TechCrunch

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. “One is how do we built trust in our community, in their language, because it’s very important that they communicate in the language that they’re comfortable using. Maya’s homescreen.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. People in developing countries will get further discounts.

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