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Weekly Member Round Up: New and Old Technology for Good!

NTEN

The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. After providing more than 600 schools with solar-paneled radios, students are able to tune into courses on subjects such as math and language.

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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Psychic wages” are not providing incentives to offset student loan debt, housing prices, and health insurance. He is a Chicago-born Oregonian, who moved to Eugene after living abroad in Sudan. Wage inequity is effectively failing to retain talented and young professionals that enter the sector.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Quick thoughts : Sudan suffers from inflation and currency devaluation problems, like most African economies. Sudan’s first YC-backed startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 11. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Clearly, I need to do less. What are your Have Fun Do Good resolutions?

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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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Dear Sophie: What can we do to help employees who are Ukrainian citizens?

TechCrunch

Our most immediate concern is for the F-1 student whose OPT status is expiring in June. Does that include F-1 students on OPT? Ukraine joins 12 other countries that currently have TPS designation: Myanmar, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.