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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year, we fundraised for Grassroot Soccer —an organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries—and exceeded our $60,000 goal and raised a total of $72,000. Our team created a peer-to-peer campaign using Grassroot Soccer’s messaging and branding.

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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. Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation.

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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. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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

TechCrunch

Singapore-based Thunes , a fintech focused on making cross-border money transfers easier, announced today it has raised a $60 million growth round led by Insight Partners. Thunes raises $60 million for cross-border payments in emerging markets. When Insight approached Thunes, it was not planning to raise more funding.

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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

After an initial success helping Groupon scale internationally via a merger with Rocket’s incubation firm CityDeal, Rocket’s team have aggressively scaled businesses from Algeria to Zimbabwe — sometimes in a matter of weeks. Others need to build new warehouses, hire local teams or build entirely new products.

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How to Use Causes for Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal

NTEN

Nonprofits have already raised over $26 million using Causes -- and to start the giving season off, we recently announced that your causes will soon be able to publish to members' News Feeds (like a Fan Page can now). Using this tool, the National Wildlife Federation has raised over $100,000 for their oil spill work in the Gulf Coast.

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