YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2011

The first project they’re engaged in is installing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Kenya. Check out the following infographic, which demonstrates how this model can increase the income, health, time value and jobs for the local community, while decreasing CO2 inhalation, trees used and time spent looking for fuel.

Kenya 203

Kenya Community Global Programming 203

NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

New Zealand 111

New Zealand Founder Technical Cofounder Kenya 111

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Prepay Nation is a processor of “micro-payments” across national and international boundaries utilizing “mobile” ecosystems within the “unbanked” communities. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Prepay Nation.

CTO Hire 49

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 49

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Of nearly 200,000 clients, over 98% of whom are female, 77% have significantly raised their income level away from poverty, and 38% no longer fall below the poverty line.

Colombia 263

Colombia Kenya San Diego San Antonio 263

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. Fix the distribution bottleneck in rural Kenya. “My The inspiration for Bidhaa Sasa? Why do they even buy from us?”

Kenya 60

Kenya Lean Community Africa 60

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Prepay Nation is a processor of “micro-payments” across national and international boundaries utilizing “mobile” ecosystems within the “unbanked” communities. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Prepay Nation.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

is a Swedish based enterprise that aims to open doors to create a better understanding of how diversity can benefit the nation’s tech startup community. “I In finding ways to bring his altruistic and business interests together on behalf of the broader tech startup community, he’s ensuring that everyone wins. To that end, Orten.io

Sweden 127

Sweden Somalia Mauritius Founder 127

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. That’s massive.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

For example, the Acumen Fund has invested in a solar energy project in India that is providing clean energy to rural communities. For example, the Bridgespan Group has invested in an education initiative in Kenya that is helping to improve the reading skills of primary school students. Finally, you should never give up on your vision.

Private Equity 134

Private Equity NPV Israel Kenya 134

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re an active part of your city or town’s community, you may have noticed a sudden spike in the number of activities and events relating to business and entrepreneurship. Are there any groups or organizations you can volunteer for or start within you community, aimed at helping women succeed? Start a Braintrust.

Iceland 138

Iceland Burundi San Diego Rwanda 138

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Amy is currently on the TNC Global Campaign Committee and on the TNC Africa Affinity Group for Women and Girls.

Papua New Guinea 92

Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Denver Tanzania 92

Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The holidays are a great time to foster a positive workplace culture, as well as give charitably to your community. Another way to be both festive and charitable during the holiday season is to sign up as a team to do something in the community. Sign up to participate in a local event, like a seasonal fun run.

Uganda 114

Uganda Tanzania Kenya Employee 114

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

At crowdSPRING, we feel very fortunate to participate in such a vibrant community of talented creatives. But we also value our broader, global community, and feel it’s important to make an impact there, as well. It’s the work we do as a collective that makes the greatest impact. An Ever Growing Health Crisis.

Community 48

Community Global Uganda Kenya 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

At crowdSPRING, we feel very fortunate to participate in such a vibrant community of talented creatives. But we also value our broader, global community, and feel it’s important to make an impact there, as well. It’s the work we do as a collective that makes the greatest impact. An Ever Growing Health Crisis.

Community 48

Community Global Uganda Kenya 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

At crowdSPRING, we feel very fortunate to participate in such a vibrant community of talented creatives. But we also value our broader, global community, and feel it’s important to make an impact there, as well. It’s the work we do as a collective that makes the greatest impact. An Ever Growing Health Crisis.

Community 48

Community Global Uganda Kenya 48

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These organizations are on the ground, active in the communities so that the people who live here know it’s not just a bunch of people who work in some office in the U.S. But we’re really about figuring out how we can empower these organizations to do their best work. helping them. Every season we pick a different country.

Bolivia 120

Bolivia Uganda Cambodia Cofounder 120

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

Penda improves health care in Kenya. Penda is a social enterprise: a for-profit company with the mission of improving the lives of people in the community, in this case via its affordable health clinics. Koczela is enthusiastic about the entrepreneurial spirit in Kenya: “You are working from seven a.m. to nine p.m.

Syria 60

Syria Kenya Cofounder New York City 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. We have had a wonderful community of peers, mentors, and we get to work with some of the best universities in the U.S.

Baltimore 62

Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2012

New commitments announced at the two-day meeting include an expansion of Code the Change, a project of Stanford University student Sam King that hosts Code Jams in which computer science students provide up to twenty-four hours of pro bono volunteer services for nonprofit projects; the development, by Duke University student Patrick Oathout, of Uhuru, (..)

Global 37

Global Kenya Africa Entrepreneur 37

Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

In 2006, I volunteered in an orphanage in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya. The first time I volunteered, it was in a hospital in France as a teenager. Since then, I embarked on humanitarian missions around the world.

United Arab Emirates 75

United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Kenya 75

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As the co-founder of the Virtual Global Consultant (VGC) Group, I love the fact that we have created employment in underserved communities globally. We are generating employment for countries such as the United States, Philippines, Canada, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ghana and Nepal. #15- Creating opportunities. 16-EVERYTHING!

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Sri Lanka LLC United States 100

Austin Startup

MARCH 12, 2017

The documentary was directed by Andrew Wonder and produced in partnership with AngelHack , a female-owned, female-majority company and the world’s largest and most diverse hacker community. Bettirose, a young woman from Kenya, and her group, Report Taka, developed an app to help with illegal trash dumping in Kenya.

Hosting 48

Hosting Kenya Silicon Valley United States 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. report concludes.”

India 100

India Mobile Tanzania SMS 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2016

As a white person I cannot accept that the GOP candidate for office was the leading voice in the United States for the “birther movement,” which questioned the citizenship of the president of the United States because his father was from Kenya. How can we as a community not speak up? After Eric Garner? Trayvon Martin? Freddie Gray?

America 150

America United States South America Kenya 150

Reid Hoffman

MAY 20, 2014

Today, Teresa has an even bigger dream of opening Old Skool Cafes across the nation and revitalizing communities everywhere. That’s tens of billions of dollars that fueled the economy and helped our communities thrive – gone, completely eviscerated. Such companies can scale quickly, create thousands of jobs, and help the U.S.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Kenya Global America 78

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. And maybe there's people from Georgia who are traveling to Idaho, and they are seeding the coronavirus in the community. Eric Ries : That's right.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114