Vera Co-Founder & CEO Named 2017 Global Good Fund Fellow
After a rigorous selection process, Vera Co-founder and CEO, Zak Kaufman, has been named a 2017 Global Good Fund (GGF) Fellow. Over 2,400 social enterprise leaders applied to become part of the fifth class of GGF Fellows – the group was narrowed down to 15 Fellows over a four-stage application process. In early April, Zak […]
UN General Assembly, Social Good Summit Highlight Tech-Driven Development
Alyssa Heinze is a Marketing & Communications Intern at Vera Solutions. A junior at Dartmouth College, Alyssa studies Government and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to her work at Vera, she studied abroad at Hyderabad Central University and interned for a women’s empowerment NGO in Kathmandu, Nepal. This year’s Social Good Summit focused on […]
Streamlining Systems and Processes used by the World’s Largest Financier of HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria Programs
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is an international financing institution working with over 1,000 organizations across more than 140 countries. Channeling an estimated 21% of the world’s funding for HIV/AIDS, 50% for malaria, and 82% for tuberculosis, the Global Fund is the world’s largest funder of programs to combat these diseases. […]
Celebrating Women: Women Win
The International Women’s Day celebration continues. We’re highlighting some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Today, we’re profiling Women Win, a nonprofit organization using sport to address gender inequality and empower adolescent girls and young women. Women Win, an internationally recognized center […]
Women Win – Using Salesforce to Monitor and Evaluate Girls’ Empowerment Programs
This story was originally published online by the Salesforce Foundation. Vera has worked with Women Win over the last two years to implement and support its Salesforce-based monitoring and evaluation system, which is now being used by more than 30 partners around the world. Women Win is an internationally recognized center of excellence on gender […]
Population Services International: Revolutionizing Rural Supply-Chain Management and Health Service Delivery in Mozambique
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organization dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world using Social Marketing. Central to PSI’s approach is the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure, through accessibility and affordability, […]
