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Money Experience Named as Hybrid Learning Resource for Impact Global Education’s Flexible Higher Education Solution
Impact Global Education's new program, Domain, marries experiential, place-based and online learning to add value to higher education
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- Education, Technology
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- edtech, impact investing
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Africa’s Student Housing Crisis: An Overlooked Need Offers a Major Opportunity for Impact Investors
As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, universities are shutting their doors in unprecedented numbers. But for many African students, home is not an ideal learning environment. According to Abayomi Onasanya at Student Accomod8, that's one reason impact investors should focus on a long-overlooked goal: student housing. He explores how campus housing can make higher education more accessible to millions of young Africans.
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- housing, impact investing, youth
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For Billions Without Clean Water, ‘Wash Your Hands’ Is Complicated
Conservation News spoke with the director of Conservation International’s WASH in Watersheds program, Colleen Sorto, about how when it comes to water and human health, where your water comes from can be just as important as how you use it.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Environment, Health Care, Investing, WASH
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- infrastructure
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Small Business and WASH in the Age of Coronavirus
Since the coronavirus began spreading throughout the world, few things have been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our activities to develop markets for WASH products and services are no exception.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care, WASH
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- NGOs
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Press Release: BRAC Receives $60 Million as 2020 Audacious Project to Lift 21 Million People From Extreme Poverty by 2026
Over the next six years, BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative will work with governments in countries with the greatest potential to scale BRAC's Graduation approach to help millions more people to lift themselves from extreme poverty.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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African Payment Startup Chipper Cash Raises USD $13.8M
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
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Viewpoint: Story From People the Crypto Community Needs to Stand up and Fight Racism
Robert Greenfield is the CEO of Emerging Impact, a benefit corporation that supports NGOs and government agencies to leverage blockchain technology in social protection. Previously he was head of Social Impact & Diversity Programming at ConsenSys.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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- North America
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Africa Is the Next Frontier for the Internet
Expanding network connectivity across sub-Saharan Africa will open up digital services that many of us now take for granted. Mobile Banking, Whatsapp Chatting and video, e-health, e-education are key services only possible with reliable internet connectivity.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce
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