Bill Gates-backed startup Sunlight Payments helps track grant money for philanthropic projects

via Geekwire | By Nat Levy

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It can be a tough task to ensure that grants and charity funds get into the right hands, and show the path the money takes around the world. A Seattle startup backed by Bill Gates is working to make it easier.

Sunlight Payments is working with Pathfinder International, a non-governmental organization that has a presence in 19 countries and focuses on women’s reproductive health, to test a system that electronically tracks grants and payments. The two organizations just completed a test to move funds from Pathfinder’s office in Massachusetts to people and organizations on the ground working on projects in Tanzania and Uganda.

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