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Funding Innovation for Skoll Social Entrepreneurs

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Once one of their ideas is established, they can mobilize large sums of capital restricted to that specific project or area. I used the example of Kristen Cibelli, one of our field human rights workers, who got a mini-grant to go to meet with grassroots human rights groups in Liberia.

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NowNow raises $13M seed, plans to scale its ecosystem of financial products across Africa

TechCrunch

According to Berry, in partnership with a foreign third-party partner, NowNow launched a mobile wallet in late 2017 but soon realized it needed to build out its tech, which set the stage for going to market the following year. Liberia is another country where we are gearing up to set operations.”

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6 Examples of Nonprofits Working with For-Profits for a Greater Good

NonProfit Hub

Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: A pair of shoes might not sound like much, yet there’s a big need for them in Liberia. ChildFund International. TOMS Shoes.

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Paris-based Koolboks closes $2.5M seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa

TechCrunch

A typical Koolboks unit works as a refrigerator, freezer, or lighting, as it comes with two LED light bulbs and USB ports for charging mobile phones. They make payments through their mobile phones or a POS agent close to their shops; they get tokens entered as codes into the fridge, proceeding to use it for a certain period.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I just saw a remarkable film made about a grantee organization that the Global Fund had supported for many years in Liberia. When you hear something like that, I think you begin to get a sense of the power that women actually have to collectively mobilize.

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