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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

To date, we have hired seven of these wonderful young adults into our various programs, most of whom have already gone through specific trainings while they were interns. Last year, we received a grant which has allowed us to pay BA- and MA-level interns $25 per hour for their internships as well as for the staff supervision.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Field Trips and Real World Experience.

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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and. promoting human rights. BeadforLife Store. Best Friends Animal Society Store.

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Kipp and Philip of the Social Development Network in east Africa

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I dropped in on them because Kipp had been trained on our Martus human rights software years ago and had been helping human rights groups in the region with using Martus. They've also done a similar project in Tanzania and Uganda. However, I was thrilled with the incredible range of activities I heard about during our dinner together.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers. Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers.

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Uganda’s Tugende closes $3.6M Series A extension to meet the demand for its asset finance products

TechCrunch

Its core product is for motorcycle riders in Kenya and Uganda, with a lease-to-own or hire-purchase package. These riders get some training, medical and life insurance, safety equipment and hands-on support from their first use of the motorcycle to owning it. . Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to $143 million.

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The Hard Problems: A Resilient Civil Society To Face What’s Next

The NonProfit Times

In Uganda and Myanmar. If AI algorithms are trained on biased data or designed without careful consideration of ethical implications, they can lead to discriminatory outcomes, particularly for marginalized or underserved communities. We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States. Hungary and Iran.

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