article thumbnail

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

The Next Web

1) The e-commerce site where products fund projects. Similar to a Kickstarter model, these campaigns use products to fund projects. The grapes tell a story: a former Indiegogo project-gone-rogue, Wine 4 The World partners with top winemakers across America. This brand’s focus in 2014? All hail small (and local) business.

Product 155
article thumbnail

Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

TechCrunch

It partnered with ACH Colombia to work on The Transfiya project, which includes direct read and write API access to 80% of the accounts in the country. This makes it the largest open banking project in the region, according to Rozic. “We Currently, nearly two million people use the project to send money using only a phone number.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

NTEN

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs. Get started!

NTEN 88
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. 9. Diana Scimone is director of The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking, she blogs here and tweets there. She is no stranger to building relationships.

Lesson 98
article thumbnail

Research Friday: What Affects Hispanic Volunteering - Comparing Three Surveys in the United States

ASU Lodestar Center

That number is projected to grow over 100 million by 2050. Census Bureau Projects Tripling of Hispanic and Asian Populations in 50 years; Non-Hispanic Whites May Drop to Half of Total Population. That means Hispanics' share of the nation's total population would nearly double, from 12.6% United States Census Bureau. Volunteering.

article thumbnail

7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. The Polaris Project works to disrupt human trafficking network. Mission: Named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the U.S.,

article thumbnail

OnlyFans confirms new caps on tips and pay-per-view content, but says the changes are unrelated to Bella Thorne

The Verge

OnlyFans is also lengthening the pending payout period from seven to 21 days for creators in 14 countries, including India, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Venezuela. Sean Baker, who was widely reported to be working on a film with Thorne, distanced himself from the project after the fallout from the rule changes. “I