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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The rise of for-profit social enterprises has been quite exciting. He's joined forces with other social entrepreneurs in the field to found UpEnergy , a new for-profit social enterprise that wants to scale the impact of their successful pilot projects. Evan Haigler is a social entrepreneur I've known for years.

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How Donorbox powers these nonprofits’ fundraising

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As a non-profit organization, the main barrier organizations face is securing sustained and long-term funding. Schoolchildren in El Salvador, young constituents of the Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation. After 12th grade, Shanti Bhavan also covers their university education.

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Research Friday: Legal Structure Alternatives to Lead Social Change

ASU Lodestar Center

Or maybe you have a great idea to create your own business, but want to balance making a profit with creating social impact? While these types of enterprises have profit-making as their highest motivation, we also see them working actively for the betterment of society. As part of a. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy

TechCrunch

Prior to MARA, Nnadi ran Sustainability International, a non-profit organization that managed community-led solutions for solving UN Sustainable Development Goals. The rest of the executive team includes Llinás Múnera, Dearg OBartuin, Kate Kallot, and board advisors– Kojo Annan and Tatiana Koffman.

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Love to Learn Tech Tips in Person? NetSquared Is for You!

Tech Soup

Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. Toronto, Ontario: Pints Not Profits — Nonprofit Technology. San Salvador, El Salvador: Presentacion De Retos Dal El Salvador 2015.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign.