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Using Technology to Build Transparency That Brings Long-Term Support

Allegiance Group

While a local food pantry can invite local donors to visit, international nonprofits like charity: water don’t have that same convenience. The experience ends with a virtual reality (VR) component where you meet Grace, a real person from Malawi. All your senses are engaged — you can even carry something heavy as you walk.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa. This fall, a team of five launched w4tw with a litany of international winemakers and the chance to truly make an impact. A video released on December 23 garnered 4K YouTube views in just three hours.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

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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How can nonprofits build public trust through accountability to beneficiaries?

ASU Lodestar Center

Prioritize internal accountability and training field staff. Emphasizing internal accountability (to the mission, core values, etc.) Daniel Tyrrell is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University and a member of the Nu Lambda Mu International Honor Society.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Rapidly Rehousing: A Nonprofit’s Use of Modular Homes

NonProfit Hub

Rapidly Rehousing: A Nonprofit’s Use of Modular Homes When Cyclone Gombe devastated Malawi, it left many families displaced without housing. Through an innovative partnership with Nostos Homes, Habitat built a modular community in rural Malawi in just a week. Traditional rebuilding takes years, leaving victims vulnerable.

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

This session will engage participants in analyzing in-depth case studies from Mercy Corps, Oceana and Amnesty International Canada that uncover the key channel integration strategies that are working for nonprofits, and why. The Hills are Alive.With Social Data Can social CRM tools save the world?

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