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This refugee aid app was built over a weekend. Now hundreds of nonprofits rely on it.
Taylor is behind the Refugee Aid app, or RefAid, which connects refugees with crucial services when and where they need them most. More than 400 of the largest aid organizations in the world—from the Red Cross to Save the Children to Doctors of the World—all use it.
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How Ikea helped to change attitudes on helping refugees
Refugee populations have long been reliant on charitable aid agencies, but could business investment make a more meaningful difference?
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Got a Great Idea? Don’t Start Your Own Nonprofit: A Q&A with Dr. Jane Aronson
Dr. Jane Aronson, a pediatrician and president and CEO of the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, will deliver a keynote address, "Scaling an Idea: Innovation at its Best," at Unite for Sight's Global Health & Innovation Conference this weekend at Yale University. In this Q&A, she shares some valuable lessons for nonprofits and the young people who hope to join (or start) them, including where NGOs typically go wrong and the problem of falling in love with your own great idea.
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IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in massive social sustainability drive
IKEA is to open production centres in refugee camps in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes.
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- Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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- employment, manufacturing, refugees
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Microfinance for Refugee Populations: What We’ve Learned and Where to Go Next
Currently, 21.3 million people are registered with United Nations agencies as refugees, and their financial inclusion has become a matter of importance and urgency. The Social Performance Task Force has been working to identify the refugees' needs and recently compiled some guidelines, “Serving Refugee Populations: The Next Financial Inclusion Frontier,” for financial service providers.
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George Soros, Mastercard to Partner to Aid Migrants, Refugees
Billionaire investor George Soros will partner with Mastercard Inc on a venture they said could help migrants, refugees and others struggling within their communities worldwide to improve their economic and social status.
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