Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

I had just moved back to the US from living in Uganda working with an artisan group, and was thrilled to find a brand here in Austin that so perfectly aligned with the kind of work I wanted to continue doing. They were learning to sew and make jewelry, but they lacked market access and design input. So Raven + Lily was born.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

In Uganda and Zambia it’s as low as 15% saying it would stop them starting a business , whereas in the US this figure stands at 34%. It’s hardly a surprise then that according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, African entrepreneurs score very highly on the self-confidence scale. But why is this?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When I was in high school, my friends and I set up a giving tree outside the school library, as a fundraiser for the Harambee Centre, an organization which provides, among other things, ambulatory services; and which builds schools for children in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

Or Uganda for example. It’s made for the afri-dev well, and there are more than 1 million of them in Africa. The sensor costs only about $100, and can protect a $10,000+ asset. Imagine installing them on every single well in Ethiopia.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 4, 2016

Or Uganda for example. It’s made for the afri-dev well, and there are more than 1 million of them in Africa. The sensor costs only about $100, and can protect a $10,000+ asset. Imagine installing them on every single well in Ethiopia.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 28, 2014

Uganda has more than 10 million people without safe water to drink. The idea for the business came to Ku when she was a nineteen-year-old volunteer at a clinic in Uganda. Ku started her non-profit with $15,000 grant from Harvard and a donated piece of land in Kumi, Uganda where she built a ceramic factory to make water filters.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019. So how do you go about picking the country to highlight and find artists or inspirations there? Every season we pick a different country.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

Some questioned whether the effort was over-simplifying the situation and others pointed out that Kony was no longer in Uganda. The effort, however, has not been without some controversy and social media pushback.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains gather Co-Director John Peter Archer. “That was when we decided to pivot away from toilet construction towards building an online platform.”

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Board Effect

APRIL 28, 2025

Uganda The detailed regulatory framework governing nonprofits and NGOs in Uganda underscores the need for comprehensive education on board roles and responsibilities.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The nation along with Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda recently tightened some NGO financing restrictions to help fight money laundering, as documented by the International Center for Nonprofit Law. Uganda Mission-driven fundraising in Uganda is the purview of its National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations.

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