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Four Tips for Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Tech Soup

Connection plot - This plot is about people who develop a connection across a divide—racial, class, ethnic, religious, demographic, etc. One Girl Australia raised $50,000 the first year they ran Do it in a Dress , a global campaign to empower girls in Sierra Leone with education. These stories make us want to help others.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

TechCrunch

But uLesson has introduced new features for an all-encompassing edtech play for this demographic. The platform is available in other markets, such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, the UK, Liberia, Gambia and the US, but Shagaya said uLesson has spread in these countries via word of mouth.

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Unicef’s Little Bet on Pinboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m now on the prowl for examples from the nonprofit world of “Little Bets” and was excited to read about how Unicef created a fictional profile for a 13-year-old girl named Ami Musa, from the poor, war torn African country of Sierra Leone.