In May 2013, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) established the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Accra, Ghana. Through CePAT, USP aims to improve access to quality medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, staff conduct trainings for … Read More
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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 … Read More
Dasra: Strategic Philanthropy, Streamlined
Since 1999, Dasra has strategically connected Indian non-profits to philanthropists. Dasra believes that equipping donors and social entrepreneurs with knowledge, funding opportunities, and support networks will dramatically transform India’s social sector. To that end, Dasra helps build capacity within non-profits and … Read More
Honey Care Africa: Powering Smallholder Honey Production in East Africa
More than seventy-five percent of Kenya’s population lives in rural areas, where many families rely on smallholder farming for both food and income. Honey Care Africa is a social enterprise working throughout East Africa to help smallholder households increase their … Read More
SHOFCO: Managing Community Development Programs in the Slums of Nairobi
Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, is home to an estimated 1 million people. Here, access to even the most basic necessities, like electricity and potable water, is a challenge. Services that so many of us take for granted such as trash … Read More
Powering Innovation in East Africa
Over the past three years we’ve worked with some incredible organizations. In designing custom Force.com solutions we’ve given our partners an empowering tool that gives them access to their own real-time data, allowing them to register rural farmers as microfinance … Read More
Avanti Fellows: Giving Low-Income Students Access to Math and Science Education
Admission to India’s top engineering universities, especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), is often the ticket to a life amongst the country’s burgeoning middle class. The process is so competitive that many students sign up for private after-school sessions … Read More