Tech for Good by Glean - Tech for Good - Issue 61 - Apr 19th 2021
News
Happy Monday!
I hope your week is off to a great start! This week I've featured three new funding opportunities from D-Prize, Food Thought, and the Enel Group. I've also found a few articles on social media this week that might be of help for you all. I think my mind has been on social media this week since Cambodia has put a strong lock down in effect for Phnom Penh. Social Media still seems like a place where, in the midst of COVID challenges, we can still engage with our communities. I hope these articles are helpful to you.
For now, I am leaving off job postings, since they were not seeing much engagement. But if you have a job you'd like me to share I'm happy to do so. As always please feel free to email me if you have something you'd like me to feature!
Have a great week!
Jesse Orndorff
Tech for Good
ICT4Ag
Complete Farmer Opens Smart Farming Platform To Buyers Globally
This is an interesting example of a Ghana-based smart farming company Complete Farmer, who recently opened its platform to buyers who wish to purchase quality agricultural products at competitive prices, directly from the company’s tech-enabled farms. With all the talk of technology solutions for agriculture in SE Asia, this might be a good example for people to look to.
Social Media
20 Social Media Templates to Save You Hours of Work
I'm a big fan of using templates to help save time. Hootsuite just published 20 social media templates will save you a ton of time and effort, from creating content, to publishing posts and measuring results.
Social Media Storefronts: A Digital Development Blind Spot?
From the intro: "I’ve spent a lot of my time over the past few months thinking about online shopping. Not only because with the arrival of my second child my Amazon purchases have skyrocketed (although they have), but because DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration has been doing a lot of work alongside our clients digging into how small to medium-size businesses use digital technologies in this digital-forward—often digital-only era of COVID-19. It’s fascinating work and has revealed to me how little I previously knew of social storefronts. My hunch is that many of my peers in digital development are equally unaware of the myriad features, tools, and functions embedded in the business accounts of the ubiquitous social media apps we engage with daily, and we have some work to do to understand, and appropriately utilize, these extremely powerful platforms for economic growth."
What is the Clubhouse App?
This is a good primer on Clubhouse, which I have seen start to take off in Cambodia! The Clubhouse app has been making headlines as the next big social platform. Which means it’s time for brands and marketers to check it out, get a feel, and decide whether they should be joining in, too.
Reports
Must-Read Digital Marketing & Fundraising Reports for Nonprofits Worldwide
The reports listed offer much-needed data to help your nonprofit, NGO, or charity craft your 2021-22 digital marketing and fundraising strategy. This list includes a few great reports focused on Asia Pacific!
Training
How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal
In 2020, nonprofits raised around 20% of their income from grants. Grant funds from foundations, government entities, and corporations help nonprofits diversify their income streams. While you can use several marketing elements from your individual donor campaigns in your grant applications, creating effective proposals requires some additional considerations.
Funding
Global Thought for Food Challenge 2021
The world’s largest and most diverse agri-food-tech innovation challenge:
🌎 Open to purpose-driven innovators at all stages (idea through to incorporated startup).
🔥 Seeking diverse solutions to the question: “How do we feed 10bn people on a hotter planet?”
🤝 Cash prizes, industry connections, global exposure, plus free access to world-class resources and experts on the TFF Digital Labs
D-Prize. Distribution equals development
D-Prize supports new entrepreneurs who can distribute proven poverty interventions.
The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet millions of people still don’t have access. Can you design a business or NGO that solves one of the Distribution Challenges?
We will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch a pilot version of your new organization wherever extreme poverty exists, with a goal to serve millions in the years ahead.
Innovative New Business, Products, and Solutions using Internal and External Data
Enel Group and Enel Innovation Hubs are looking for new ways of leveraging internal and external data to create new business, products or solutions that can create new revenue streams. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award of $20,000USD for at least one submitted solution.
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