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American Express Leadership Academy alumna Elena Zee shares profound impact of 2019 Aspen Institute Fellowship

ASU Lodestar Center

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute.

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Kenya-based fintech 4G Capital to scale lending after raising $18.5M from Lightrock

TechCrunch

4G Capital offers short-term loans to micro-businesses in Kenya and Uganda, who are often locked out by formal banking institutions. International Development Finance Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Kenya’s Co-operative bank and high net-worth individuals. Image Credits: 4G Capital.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Mukono, Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Adobe Spark: Storytelling That Matters. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Gulu, Uganda: Adobe Spark Digital Storytelling. Mukono, Uganda.

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Elena Zee shares profound impact of 2019 Aspen Institute Fellowship

ASU Lodestar Center

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. Can you remember when a huge mobile. phone was a brand new and exciting phenomenon and something that only a. a device only seen on TV!

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. It had been bombed.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world.