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Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding

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The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (FEI-OGEF), Cordaid, and Qotto’s existing investors also participated in the round. Through a pay-to-own model , it avails its products to individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa that are off-grid owing to underdeveloped national power grids.

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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. Launching – and funding – several crowd commerce campaigns. Similar to a Kickstarter model, these campaigns use products to fund projects. A recent aim for a water well in Africa was funded by sales of more than 300 sustainably-made, BPA-free water bottles.

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Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API

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San Francisco-based venture capital firm Runa Capital, Ace & Company, Todd & Rahul Angel Fund and Vibe VC participated. It currently has a lean team of 10 located in Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Europe. The Zambian company will also use the funds to expand its regional customer base. .

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

The renewable energy firm revealed the plans today when it announced the signing of a voluntary commitment with the United Nations to grow its energy market in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The company plans to have additional technological and business model innovations, and the use of AI and IoT to remotely manage its fleet.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year. We currently have five centers open.

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How to Use Causes for Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal

NTEN

Using this tool, the National Wildlife Federation has raised over $100,000 for their oil spill work in the Gulf Coast. The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

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In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. Fund for UNICEF.

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