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New report reveals the highs and lows of UK charity management since 2020 | Charity Times, 13 jul 2025
Starting, Scaling and Sustaining Social Innovation | OECD, 25 jun 2025
Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 29 may 2025
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A CHOICE BETWEEN CHARITY IMPACT AND FINANCIAL RESILIENCE? | Charities Aid Foundation, 27 may 2025
The evolution of research on corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a bibliometric analysis | Taylor & Francis Online, 25 may 2025

October 2014

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 oct 2014

Wikipedia recently launched a project 'Wiki Zero' that advocates for free access to health and education materials in developing countries through mobile networks. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says that in developing economies lack of access to health and medical information results in large number of preventable deaths and cites the case of Ebola in Africa. He mentions that Wikipedia is currently the most viewed health resource online in the world. Wiki Zero has already been adopted by mobile service providers in China and India. Read on...

The Telegraph: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: 'Free Wiki could save thousands of lives'
Author: Oscar Williams-Grut