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Another Model of Giving: Socially Responsible Small Businesses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. The organization was founded by Richard Proudfit who was on a medical mission to Honduras after a hurricane ravaged the country. I learned about this charity from Jennifer J.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

Have Fun - Do Good

Honduras 8. In developing countries, the only means of individual transportation available to everybody is a bicycle. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5. Guatemala 9.

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Fintech startups lead the layoff wave

TechCrunch

With almost $1 million monthly transaction volume across five countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic), McCormack shared via email that n1co will be using the fresh capital to accelerate growth (currently 30% MoM), develop its POS devices and push its soon-to-be-launched current account and Visa debit card.

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Client Spotlight: Byte Back

Qgiv

In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras. Community partners can host classes at their computer labs, collaborate on events or fundraisers, teach workshops, and share or develop resources. He realized that if he could do it, anyone could.

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NetSquared Events in May and June

Tech Soup

San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Google Hangout - ¡Primer Meetup NetSquared! Kampala, Uganda: Pre-Conference workshop: Developing Practical Skills in Blogging for Development. Mukono, Uganda: Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School&Community. Tuesday, May 27. Wednesday, May 28.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

drone maker, Titan Aerospace for their Internet.org project to provide low-cost Internet to much of the developing world. Google also plans to supply low-cost Internet to the developing world and also use Titan’s big solar powered drones that stay in the air for years to take images. ICT for Development.

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Silicon Valley is pushing Trump to make Greenland a ‘Freedom City’

Fast Company Tech

Most Pronomos projects are in development and negotiations with various governments, Friedman said, but it has helped finance one existing startup community in Honduras called Prspera. Pronomos also invested in Praxis, a city-building venture that in October announced $525 million in financing for a new city.

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