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The water at these schools comes almost entirely from rain

Fast Company Tech

Its one of more than 270 schools, from rural Nepal to urban Taiwan, to work with a fast-growing nonprofit called Gravity Water to install the nonprofits tech over the last 12 months. Photo: Gravity Water] Later, after finishing grad school in 2015, he was still considering the idea when he took a job at a school in Nepal. he says.

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How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Meet Chuna: Empowering women in rural Nepal – a READ Global video. Filmed in Nepal, this story is told by the woman it features – Chuna – and her experiences being a girl in a traditional culture that would not let her get an education.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Mama Lucy is an Epic Change fellow, and has been an invited speaker at the European Summit for Global Transformation. At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students.

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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Robert Rosenthal, who has lived in Katmandu over the past year, said that large networks like the one that Global Giving is supporting do this level of coordination on a smaller basis, working with local grantees on the ground to create projects and direct funds while collaborating with communication teams to keep the story alive.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Donna Callejon with kids in village in Guatemala - the houses, latrines, etc are being built partly with Global Giving support. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I met Dennis Whittle, Global Giving's co-founder, at a social entrepreneurship conference in Geneva.

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FIFA Plus launches with over 40,000 free soccer matches to watch live

The Verge

FIFA Plus launches globally today. It’s available globally on the web and mobile devices, in five languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish) with more to follow. Today, for example, you can stream matches from the Mongolian 2nd League, Nepal Women’s Football League, and 3F Superliga. Image: FIFA.

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How Technology Barriers Slow Down Nonprofit Innovation In the Global South

Global Giving

Heartbreakingly, this reality is amplified further when you examine the Global South, and the life-changing work being done by small organizations there. The global need for accessible technology. Innovation in the Global South. Organizations in the Global South do a significant proportion of their work on-the-ground.

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