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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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HBO Max will launch internationally in June

The Verge

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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I just made an educational microloan!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This weekend, I made my first educational microloan, to Claudia Belén García Royz of Nicaragua, who is studying to be an industrial engineer. Outside the U.S., educational loans are not so common. And, education is the way out of poverty.

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New Blog: Forum One Field Notes

Forum One

So when Angie Milton, a Forum One Project Officer, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to volunteer in Nicaragua, we realized that it was time for us to eat our own dog food. Angie is already blogging regularly about her work for the San Juan del Sur Sister City Project in Nicaragua. Give it a read at fieldnotes.forumone.com.

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You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them

TechCrunch

During one project in Nicaragua, his team suddenly found itself lost amidst the smoke of an active volcano. “A lot of projects were focused on predicting volcanic eruptions and looking at using sensor networks and different things of that nature to make people who live in those regions that are exposed to volcanic threats safer.”.

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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in SaaS startup Drift, taking it to unicorn status

TechCrunch

Cancel’s parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and Cuba while Torres emigrated from Nicaragua in his teens. “I -based unicorns with Latin founders and serve as an inspiration for other entrepreneurs of Latin descent.

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Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan.