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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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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. On the 25th of January, Techstars Seattle announced its 12th class featuring 10 startups from different parts of the world.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

The report suggests that women, collaborative in nature, are motivated to move capital as a team. My daughter Ruby blossomed into a leader at her school following a trip to Zimbabwe, where she saw innovative solutions firsthand. billion between 2017 and 2023.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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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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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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Construction insurance company Billy raises additional $2.5 million

TechCrunch

Eric Kanowsky, a managing partner at Entrada Ventures, told TechCrunch that the firm invested in Billy because it was attracted to the deep knowledge its team had regarding construction technology. Born in Zimbabwe, he was a childhood pen pal of the late Michael Tyler Fisher , a member of the billionaire Fisher Family real estate dynasty.