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Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin care products. Kenya-based Uncover Skincare is one of them and it seeks to revolutionize the sector through data-led manufacturing that is aligned with the needs of the modern African woman. Image Credits : Uncover Skincare. “We

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Africa Product Kenya Nigeria

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

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Kisii, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Kisii. Friday, September 8, 2017. Mukono, Uganda.

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Story Tanzania Benin United Kingdom

Predatory loan apps in India rake in huge fees, and are driving some users to suicide

TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

According to local news reports, nearly two dozen suicide cases owing to harassment coming from loan app operators have been reported online. Like the Hyderabad police, TechCrunch has learned that the Fintech Association of Consumer Empowerment (FACE) shared a list of loan apps with Google to get them pulled from the Play Store.

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India Google Kenya Policy

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

She is focused on local and global initiatives, partnering with nonprofits, governments and the private sector to develop durable solutions and deliver impact at scale. Her dedication to amplifying marginalized voices, paired with her vision for political empowerment, shows what it means to lead with purpose and passion.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy Global Question Kenya

Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship.

Voice

Voice Global Journal Portland

Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward.

Digital

Digital Empowerment Literacy Internet

Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs.

Interview

Interview Sudan Africa Congo

Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

Green

Green Global Action Network

Tracking gender equality with data: the 2022 SDG Gender Index

Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The need for disaggregated and well-used data and evidence is key for empowerment and equality. Tableau Foundation and EM2030 recognize the importance of local voices that bring the issues to life and can root discussions of change in data and facts. The data alone cannot drive change.

Track

Track Data Measure Goal

Tracking gender equality with data: the 2022 SDG Gender Index

Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The need for disaggregated and well-used data and evidence is key for empowerment and equality. Tableau Foundation and EM2030 recognize the importance of local voices that bring the issues to life and can root discussions of change in data and facts. The data alone cannot drive change.

Track

Track Data Measure Goal

Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

Photography

Photography Interview Change Zimbabwe

Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Ewaso Lions :: @ EwasoLions.

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Nonprofit Conservancy Social Media National

How this Guatemalan seed bank is preserving heirloom crops and saving farmers money

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Perez Tomas , left, at his local seed bank. Tomas local branch of the seed bank, run by a committee of local farmers of which he is a member, has seen his community through crop-destroying frosts, floods, heat waves, and a severe seed shortage in 2018. Without the seed banks, it would have been disastrous, Tomas said.

Money

Money Conservancy Nicaragua Guatemala

The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. It works in over 160 countries around the world. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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Global Interview Fund United States

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Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

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