Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I sat down for an interview to learn more about her work at Facebook and tips for nonprofits. We have also started hosting local nonprofit meetups in different cities in the US to engage with nonprofit partners. We featured her as a guest on our Facebook Live program at WEF interviewed by New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The local grocer now has access too. The company recently partnered with online grocery platform Self Point to provide neighborhood stores and specialty brand shops with electric carts that — with help from remote teleoperators — deliver goods to local consumers. ” GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In the global race for technical talent, companies are on the hunt for ways to speed up and scale the hiring process to snap up the best candidates before their competitors get to them. The round is being led by Tiger Global, which also led the company’s $28 million Series B in 2019.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Q: What’s your advice to them on going local vs. national vs. global? A: Think globally, act locally is the cliche, but there's a lot to it. What is your advice about what they should do and how they should go about doing it? A: Get involved, All for Good makes that easy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Even after spending months in a new country, they struggle to get a credit card from local banks, and end up paying a premium to access a range of other financial services. or in most other countries for that matter, rely on local credit scores to determine the worthiness of potential applicants. Banks in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

“The power dynamics have completely changed between employers and employees,” Remote CEO Job van der Voort said in an interview, with people more empowered he noted to work from wherever they want, and companies needing to provide remote working facilities to secure the talent at the price they want.

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JULY 26, 2013

Millennials are often the target demographic for many nonprofits, as they are known to be the most technologically-savvy with high adoption rates of smart phones, their value of entrepreneurship, and the belief that they can make a local difference, according to the Telefonica Survey. Read more about their findings here.

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JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. From @davidahood: agree with @neddotcom.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Now a young startup, Emitrr , is aiming to bring the benefits of this model to small and local businesses in the U.S. “We essentially are a business text messaging software and an automation software for local businesses in the U.S.,” ” said Anmol Oberoi, founder of Emitrr, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has to be digitally enabled for a quick evolution,” said Peeyush Asati, co-founder and CEO of Vecmocon, in an interview with TechCrunch. Tiger Global co-led the pre-Series A round of $5.2 Tiger Global, Blume back Indian startup bringing safety — and intelligence — to EVs by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Partners of DST Global led the Bangalore-headquartered startup’s Series A financing round. The round, which values the 10-month-old startup at $210 million and brings its all-time raise to $65 million, also saw participation from Tiger Global and Alkeon Capital and existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Job van der Voort, the Dutch-based CEO and co-founder of New York-based Remote, confirmed in an interview that funding values Remote at over $1 billion. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more. HR platform Rippling (Parker Conrad’s latest act) is one of its first customers.

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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. Meanwhile, Appruve processed up to 100,000 verifications monthly, Damalie disclosed in the interview.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Thanksgiving holiday—has developed a solid reputation as the global day of giving. You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). Spur Local’s Give Local GivingTuesday campaign. Since its start in 2012, GivingTuesday —which occurs on the first Tuesday after the U.S.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

The event was put together in under two months, thanks to the efforts of the local community, The Gunn Hill foundation, Advance Camps, Kalu Yala’s 10-person team, and 35 volunteers from Kalu Yala’s internship alumni pool. Kalu Yalu produces all of its own power, manages its own water system and supplies 85 percent of its own local food.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. What can we do for them? As someone who has been writing software for blind people for 25 years, we were in my element!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

In January, localized payments provider PPRO became the latest fintech-as-a-service startup to hit a billion-dollar valuation when it closed $180 million in funding. “That last mile becomes important from a customer service perspective.” ” In particular, the U.S. ” In particular, the U.S.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Adding to this feat, is the impressive story of how a small collective of 20-somethings raised $40 million dollars from more than 40 people and pulled it off with the local county’s blessing in the form of an additional $18.5 million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems. Entrepreneur Insider'

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

11NTC Day of Service Volunteers Now in its thirteenth year, the Day of Service provide an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give something back to the local community where the Nonprofit Technology Conference is held. Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques!

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VisionLink

AUGUST 18, 2015

The team also visited Obras Sociales Del Santo Hermano Pedro, hospital and clinic in Antigua, Guatemala to interview patients, staff and volunteers regarding how quality medical donations are saving lives and why more are desperately needed. The team enjoying some local Guatemalan cuisine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page. The way they're titled below is how they were listed at the time of the interview. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health. Happy listening!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Profiles and Interviews'

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

But if you care more generally about the larger global cryptoeconomy, it’s time to imbibe some good news. Encouraging news from your local distributed ledger. We have notes from an interview with Circle to help us there. Save your tweets, please. Sound good? Let’s get busy. Non-exchange crypto fees are also bullish.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I genuinely liked Kicktable , a Belgian startup that aimed to build a service to ‘make urban life more exciting’ Basically, they wanted to build a community-powered marketplace à la Etsy or Airbnb for activities, offering locals a place to host and book discounted things-to-do at the last minute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. I've posted an edited transcript below. Yes, and they're very synergistic.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. Through a so-called ‘graduate liquidity pool’, all participants – including the student founders, local leaders and CEO mentors – share in the value created from each semester.

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APRIL 22, 2022

Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. Most conversations about climate change have a global lens. Yet, for people to more efficiently engage in climate action initiatives, they need to see themselves and their own local communities in the narrative. Neal Myrick. Melisa Socorro-Nunez. April 22, 2022 - 10:38pm. April 28, 2022.

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Tableau

APRIL 22, 2022

Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. Most conversations about climate change have a global lens. Yet, for people to more efficiently engage in climate action initiatives, they need to see themselves and their own local communities in the narrative. Neal Myrick. Melisa Socorro-Nunez. April 22, 2022 - 10:38pm. April 28, 2022.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Most countries outside of the US will be getting lower prices that will be localized to their specific country, starting with Turkey and Mexico on May 20th. That translated price can be prohibitively expensive to some Twitch users, however, Mike Minton, Twitch’s VP of monetization, told The Verge in an interview this week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Simon Black, PPRO’s CEO, said in an interview that two particular areas of focus in the coming year will be more activity in Asian countries like Singapore and Indonesia, as well as Latin America, where the company acquired a local player, allpago , back in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The hubs, which include the existing ones in Lisbon (Portugal) and Tbilisi (Georgia), are intended to help its more than 100 clients hire local talent without having to establish operations in those jurisdictions. “We We see entering Egypt as the first step in our exciting journey to bring the entire continent into the global talent pool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. We have a supermarket, too, but we married it with local butchers, fishmongers, bakers, fruit and veg sellers, things you can’t buy in mass retail,” said ?upr. Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. The investment from Visa came as one of the incentives for Bloom’s participation in the global card scheme’s Fintech Fast Track Program. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

When I interviewed the company’s co-founder, Rocky Lee, last year, I admit I was a little bit skeptical of any company that would bet on people agreeing to high-interest mortgage rates to upgrade their homes (think 9%!) clients “have some sort of global operations.” clients “have some sort of global operations.” “One

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. She graduated from college and is married.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Airbnb managed to create a product extension through its own cultural intermingling, and now its Icons platform allows guests to book stays in IRL pop-cultural locales. The result was more than 20 million views, global news coverage, and a complete vibe shift in what a tourism ad can be.

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