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What More Could Donors Be Doing on COVID-19?
Development professionals in Latin America and the Caribbean are most frustrated with donors’ response — 88% of respondents based there feel donors are not doing enough, followed by 79% in North America.
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Google and Gates Foundation to Help Spread Digital Payments in Developing Countries
The initiative would help tie together a growing array of digital financial services.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press Release: Grameen America Launches Economic Relief and Recovery Fund for Low-Income, Women Small Business Owners in the Wake of COVID-19
Nonprofit microfinance organization Grameen America today announced that it has launched the Grameen America Economic Relief and Recovery Fund, with the goal of raising $72 million to provide essential capital and support to the low-income women entrepreneurs the organization serves.
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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- microfinance, nonprofits
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Heifer International Joins Libra Association to ‘Support Financial Inclusion’
Global nonprofit Heifer International is joining the Libra Association, it announced Monday, becoming the 23rd official member of the organization.
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- Finance, Technology
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Data Mapping Key to Track Disease Spread and Plug Health Gaps, Experts Say
“It sounds almost obvious, but we can’t get a health worker in a community if we don’t know that community exists,” said Avi Kenny, former director of research, monitoring, and evaluation at nonprofit organization Last Mile Health, adding that census data in low- and middle-income countries is often not that good.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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How Bridge Loans Can Aid Nonprofits and Social Enterprises Through the Covid-19 Crisis
“We sometimes refer to our work as the everyday emergency room of impact—our borrowers are coming to us during a time of crisis when something outside their control has gone wrong,” says Maya Winkelstein, chief executive officer of Open Road Alliance, a philanthropic initiative based in New York.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Press Release: JPMorgan Chase Makes $50 Million Philanthropic Investment to Help Address Immediate and Long-Term Impacts of COVID-19
JPMorgan Chase announced a $50 million global philanthropic commitment to address the immediate public health and long-term economic challenges from the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Opportunity Fund and the Accion U.S. Network Combine Efforts to Drive Small Business Access to Credit and Advisory Services in the U.S.
Opportunity Fund, the country’s leading nonprofit small business lender, and the Accion U.S. Network, the U.S. affiliate of global nonprofit Accion that has led a nationwide network of community lenders since 2011, will join efforts to form Accion Opportunity Fund, effective immediately.
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- Finance
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- North America
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- microfinance, nonprofits