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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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Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

TechCrunch

Its current systems can power lights, mobile phones and small home appliances like TVs. Countries like South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar and Tanzania are among the least electrified in the world and could benefit from clean energy technologies. The company was founded in 2007 by T.

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Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa

TechCrunch

“A just and inclusive energy transition, one that alleviates energy poverty and mitigates climate change, requires an understanding of the financing needs of entrepreneurs, who we are depending on to deliver the world’s energy access goals,” said Shell Foundation’s operations director, Gareth Zahir-Bill.

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Three ways to quickly analyze fundraising performance with Tableau

Tableau

Nonprofit Cloud Product Marketing Director, Salesforce. Eric Dayton, Director of Data at buildOn , faced many unknowns when he came home from Malawi on March 3rd, a week before the COVID shutdown. That spreadsheet grew into a system teams relied on, but it didn’t function or scale well. Jarrett O’Brien. Kristin Adderson.

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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. We are transforming community pharmacies into the foundation of a modern health system in Africa. We will have a Mutti pharmacy in every community on the continent.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

People login to our system from any place on Earth within cell reception, and constructively use small windows of spare time for science, medicine, nonprofits, government, and more. million patients in Malawi and Uganda, they've seen that text messages and cheap mobile phones are great tools on the front-lines of global health.

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Three ways to quickly analyze fundraising performance with Tableau

Tableau

Nonprofit Cloud Product Marketing Director, Salesforce. Eric Dayton, Director of Data at buildOn , faced many unknowns when he came home from Malawi on March 3rd, a week before the COVID shutdown. That spreadsheet grew into a system teams relied on, but it didn’t function or scale well. Jarrett O’Brien. Kristin Adderson.