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

The Next Web

According to Paull Young, director of digital at charity:water, the organization ensures that 100 percent of money raised goes directly to fund water efforts, primarily in Africa and southeast Asia. Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa.

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FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

TechCrunch

The insurance industry has been slow to innovate compared to the rest of the financial sector, yet Africa is experiencing a huge protection gap,” FSD Africa’s director of risk, Kelvin Massingham, told TechCrunch. “We And we’re excited to support the development of similar programs like this across the region,” Massingham said.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. doctors in some of the most developed countries, according to World Health Organisation data. ’s development arm CDC Group, Breyer Capital and Golden Palm Investments.

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Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API

TechCrunch

The Zambian fintech also received checks from angel investors such as Babs Ogundeyi, the CEO of Nigerian neobank Kuda; Risana Zitha, managing director of Renaissance Capital; and Gbenga Ajayi, former director of SMB Growth at Wise. . The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

By Colin Holtz and Steve Daigneault, M+R Strategic Services Everyone is talking about "the power of stories" — social scientists, nonprofit directors, your mother, you name it. Before OFA, he served as Internet Director for Rep. Connect emotionally to your supporters and they'll give! There's just one problem. Fund for UNICEF.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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How can nonprofits build public trust through accountability to beneficiaries?

ASU Lodestar Center

Similarly, the concept of empowering beneficiaries and a rights-based approach to development have become more widely used and accepted. Daniel resides in Blantyre, Malawi, with his wife and 5-year-old triplets. The use of downward accountability mechanisms is growing. He holds a B.A.

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