Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here's a glimpse of what's happening internationally around TechSoup Global: Connecting Up Australia. NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. GuideStar International.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Madica said it is also keen on reaching underserved markets in the continent, outside the well-established hubs of Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Madica is also partnering with AfriLabs, Pariti, Africa Early Stage Investor Summit, CELO foundation, and Rising Tide to identify entrepreneurs to support.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

The event here in Zurich is the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Summit, where roughly a hundred social entrepreneurs get together with global leaders to advance the movement. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050. New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Un Foundation. The three-day conference was amazing (you can view the schedule here ). ” Philantroteens.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. My team is actively pursuing foundation grants, event sponsorships, individual monthly donations and consulting services. Peter Deitz is the man behind Social Actions and here’s is how the $20.09

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Meanwhile, other fintechs are providing a broader spectrum of financial services for these gig workers (who, according to the Mastercard Foundation, are expected to reach over 80 million by 2030). Some gig platforms have tried to embed financial services into their systems, but they are limited. ImaliPay is an example.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. In October, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. Web Crawl Data: Click here to see larger image.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Others include expanding its network of restaurants and continuing its pan-African expansion drive (into South Africa and much later, Ivory Coast). Globally, you see that Sysco isn’t in the same vertical as Toast,” said the founder who launched the startup with Fikayo Akinwale , Mark Edomwande , Kunle Ogungbamila and Namir El-Khouri.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By: Sean Fitzpatrick, Chair, Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and Chair, Laureus World Sports Academy; former Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks. Laureus is a global movement whose purpose is to change the world through the power of sport. About the Author. Sean Fitzpatrick is Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

” The initial markets will be in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Vietnam, where Apeel’s tech will treat avocados, pineapples, asparagus and citrus fruits like lemons, limes and oranges.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

It was the perfect storm: we knew it was time to host a meeting of TechSoup Global's partners in the Asia/Pacific region. Representatives from Connecting Up Australia , Frontier Foundation (Taiwan), Hong Kong Council of Social Service , NASSCOM Foundation (India), and NGO Pulse (South Africa) were in attendance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

As a result, the Nigerian startup surveyed 1,000 business owners across Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria to better understand their wait times for receiving payments from business customers and partners globally.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Most of Be Sweet's products are made by artisans who work in job creation programs in South Africa. Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

The new product has been created in partnership with National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) and Vanguard Charitable and allows Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) sponsors, community foundations and other grantmakers to move their donations electronically through PayPal’s platform.” However, while it is true that T.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

Read More » Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration Joe Anderson in Influence 24 Jun 2010 Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think the real answers lie in the small, diverse, creative solutions we come up with ourselves in our communities, by ourselves, or with our friends, or with a global group. It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa and everywhere around and between AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. and you kind of go through your rebel phase.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We introduced rooibos and honeybush from South Africa, which was never heard of in America. Because currently, the TransFair fair trade only certifies about eight different products, eight different raw goods--rice, sugar, cocoa, coffee, soccer balls, something like that, tea and a couple other things--and it's not really global.

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Futurism

APRIL 6, 2025

In the wilderness of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana, where these black rhinos roam, transporting a creature that can weigh more than a ton overland isn't always practical. For reference, black rhinos have a total population of just 6,500 globally, which is more than double what it was three decades ago, per the BBC.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 7, 2025

Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the worlds first global carbon tax. For the first time, we will have, hopefully, an effective global framework tackling this international issue. Most emissions are tackled domestically.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The financing was led by the Steele Foundation for Hope , a nonprofit organization that says it’s focused on finding and funding lasting solutions for some of “humanity’s hardest challenges.”. They receive financial help and support from external partners and organizations like the Global Fund, USAID and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the coming decades, Africa will be a significant growth market for mobile games, driven by the proliferation of technology adoption among the continent’s youthful population. South African music artiste Nasty C (far left); Carry1st co-founder and COO Lucy Hoffman (far right). Image Credits: Carry1st.

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