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One Funder Intrigued by New Ways to Finance Education in Poor Countries: Gates
We were intrigued to see that the Gates Foundation recently awarded Opportunity International $1 million to support its education finance program.
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- Education
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Leveraging Technology for Good: An Interview With June Sugiyama, Director of the Vodafone Americas Foundation
With its parent corporation ranked as one of the top telecom companies in the world, Vodafone Americas Foundation's focus is a natural fit: "We support projects that use technology for social impact," says June Sugiyama, the foundation's director. In this Q&A, recorded at the SOCAP16 conference, she discusses the foundation's multifaceted work.
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- Technology
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A Global Push for Youth Financial Inclusion Gains Steam—and Some Big Backers
The global dialogue about the importance of bringing children and young people in financial inclusion landscape has grown over the past few years.
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Viewpoint: The Next Big Idea May Be Growing Far From Silicon Valley
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first trip to Africa this summer with stops in Nigeria and then Kenya. In June, the Chan Zuckerberg initiative—the philanthropic foundation of Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan—invested $24 million in Andela, a company that trains top software developers in Kenya and Nigeria. This trip and investment is a departure from the prevailing mindset in Silicon Valley, where top venture capital firms are investing in companies making products and services—like monthly deliveries of cannabis products or on-demand set-up of personal karaoke parties—to address increasingly minor “first world” problems with some of the country’s best talent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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George Soros to Give $500 Million to Migrant, Refugee Businesses
George Soros is pumping $500 million into migrant- and refugee-founded businesses and other initiatives, the billionaire investor announced Tuesday, noting that his hope is other investors will follow suit.
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- Investing
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Pledge $3 Billion to Fighting Disease
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, last year said they would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charitable causes. Now they are putting a large chunk of that money to work.
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- Health Care
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Clinton Foundation Initiative to Become Independent if Hillary Wins
The largest arm of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation will spin off into an independent organization if Hillary Clinton is elected president, the charity said Wednesday in the latest effort by the foundation and the campaign to alleviate concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
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Nonprofits Fret as Clinton Foundation Plans to Transfer Programs
Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala said Wednesday that the organization has largely solidified plans to terminate, reconstitute, or hand off the bulk of its international programs if Hillary Clinton is elected president. It would be a major undertaking — the political context is without precedent, for starters — and has some nonprofit leaders worried.
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- Impact Assessment
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