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For the last half of a century, honorable governments agencies, NFPs, and NGOS have worked to fight poverty by empowering populations through education. In the last decade, the social enterprise and impact investing movement has transitioned the focus in the battle against poverty towards creating job opportunities. The Roots and Wings solution to this problem is to end poverty with a two-...
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Benfeitoria is a project that represents well how the open source philosophy can be beneficial for all: the project gained power over its first version, in a proprietary system, by adopting Drupal, a platform sustained by hundreds of thousands of developers and companies worldwide, with a solid technical background that adds value to the company, to its clients and to the community itself by...
Oxfam work directly with communities and local partners to support people to make their way out of poverty and exercise their social, economic, political and civil rights. Oxfam Ireland is one of 17 Oxfams working together in 92 countries and has 51 shops across Ireland, north and south, with over 1,000 volunteers delivering real change to the lives of people affected by poverty.
EMILY's List is a Drupal 6 site using the Springboard Distribution and a number of custom modules. This distribution, which provides tools for online fundraising and marketing, gives EMILY’s list the flexibility to spin up candidate donation forms, process donations to each candidate according to that candidate’s requirements, and distribute single donations across candidates. The Springboard...
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Over 60 million girls are forced into unwanted marriages. Most child brides contract AIDS and are held forever in poverty and with no education tied to men often twice their age. The leading cause of death for adolescent girls worldwide is pregnancy. If trends continue 148 Million more girls will suffer this tragic human rights offense in the next decade.
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Concern Worldwide is a leading international humanitarian organization dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries. The Show your Concern project is just one of many online fundraising projects that Concern runs. The website enables members of the public to register for events that are organized by Concern. They are provided with their own personal online...
Since Catapult’s release, it has received praise from the likes of Bill Gates and Sara Silverman, and has garnered celebrity curators such as Beyonce Knowles, Salma Hayek and Frida Giannini. This crowd funding platforms allows donors to link with projects that are happening around the world to better the lives of women and girls. Since its release in October 2012, Catapult has raised...