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20 Ways Nonprofit Leaders Can Support Younger Employees' Professional Development | Forbes, 16 apr 2024
Giving money to charity? Make sure you're not donating to the taxman too | IFA Magazine, 16 apr 2024
Volunteering: A Proven Way To Improve Employee Well-Being | Report Alert, 16 apr 2024
5 things I heard at the Skoll World Forum | Devex, 16 apr 2024
Sustainable communities through social entrepreneurship | The Manila Times, 16 apr 2024
The Connection Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Wellness | Corporate Wellness Magazine, 16 apr 2024
The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There's a better way | Vox, 15 apr 2024
Lessons from the Field of Systems Change | HBS Social Enterprise Blog, 03 apr 2024
Inclusive Board Meetings | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 19 feb 2024
How nonprofits can build capabilities to catalyze impact | McKinsey, 05 feb 2024

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