Always With You: Experiment in Hand-held Philanthropy

  • Grant Amount: $72,000 (Knowledge Networking award)
  • Principal Investigator: Leba Haber Rubinoff, Interactive Filmmaking, Brooklyn, CA
  • Project Collaborators: Kentaro Toyama, Karun Koernig 
  • Important Links: Always With You

Project Summary

The Always With You network will connect young African social entrepreneurs with young North American professionals. Using mobile phone technology, which is now widespread, this network will facilitate both micro-funding and the exchange of professional advice to projects in Africa that promote public benefit. A website will share the project’s successes, lessons learned, and new ideas for scaling toward future collaborative and transnational youth partnerships.

 


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