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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our team created a peer-to-peer campaign using Grassroot Soccer’s messaging and branding. One thing that makes a peer-to-peer campaign unique, however, is the individual and team fundraising pages. We had already asked for volunteers to act as team captains, so after individuals signed up they were assigned to specific teams.

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South African crowd-solving startup Zindi building a community of data scientists and using AI to solve real world problems

TechCrunch

Zindi is all about using AI to solve real world problems for companies and individuals. Besides, Lee said that most of Zindi’s users are university students in need of learning experience, and who require enhanced skills to solve world problems.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars

TechCrunch

The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. As peculiar to most African startups, funding has been hard to come by for the team. “We’ve encountered the problems that many Black founders face, such as scarce fundraising sources.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

Women have a unique opportunity to use their position to advance philanthropy and impact to tackle the pressing problems affecting human and planetary health. The report suggests that women, collaborative in nature, are motivated to move capital as a team. Significant giving by women is already under way. billion between 2017 and 2023.

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Insight Partners leads $60M growth round in cross-border payments startup Thunes

TechCrunch

For example, Helios focuses on African companies and Thunes used part of its funding from the firm to build teams in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Likewise, GGV Capital, which led its Series A , helped Thunes’ operations in China. When Insight approached Thunes, it was not planning to raise more funding.

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Leta, a Kenyan supply chain and logistics SaaS provider, raises $3M to scale in Africa

TechCrunch

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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