{"id":4036,"date":"2023-03-03T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:26:58","slug":"creative-fundraising-ludejo-bv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.org\/blog\/creative-fundraising-ludejo-bv\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative fundraising for a more inclusive future: the story of Ludejo BV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Ludejo BV go the extra mile, and how your company can support with fundraising too<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CLEAR Global is a nonprofit, with the TWB Community<\/a> of over 100,000 language volunteers at its core – fundraising is key.<\/strong> Along with our research<\/a> and partnership programs<\/a> and AI-based language technology solutions<\/a>, we\u2019re helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak. A considerable part of what we do at CLEAR Global is thanks to our sponsors and collaborators. Without them, our impact wouldn\u2019t be the same. Both financial sponsors and in-kind sponsors help us to quickly respond to humanitarian crises. Right now,  the support we receive is helping provide urgent language services in response to the T\u00fcrkiye-Syria earthquake, the Ukraine war, the conflict in Nigeria<\/a>, and more. Our valuable sponsors help us harness the power of our community to do more good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I believe – and my team is completely behind this – in giving. Even, or perhaps especially, in difficult times. When you give, something keeps flowing. Giving provides confidence in a hopeful future for everyone<\/em>. Ludejo is the company I established on a foundation of love. We are grateful to be in a position to support CLEAR Global financially. We will continue to support CLEAR Global with our time and our talents<\/em>.”<\/p>Malon Hamoen – Ludejo\u2019s Founder & CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit: Technolex Translation Studios, Ukraine. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

All our sponsors ignite our hope for a brighter future, where speakers of all languages can access opportunities and make their voices heard. Our invaluable supporters provide us with the collaborations, expertise, and funding that are required to move our mission forward and help more people access information digitally in a language and format they understand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love to celebrate companies that go the extra mile in their willingness to support our mission- not only fundraising but also looking for ways to engage the wider community to help us grow visibility and support across the world. One of them is Ludejo BV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since their very own foundation, Ludejo BV decided to fundraise to support our TWB community. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It all started back in 2016, at the GALA conference in New York. Our CEO, Aimee Ansari, gave a speech about the need to ensure that language is not a barrier when it comes to the humanitarian sector.<\/strong> As Aimee explained the work that Translators without Borders, now CLEAR Global, does, one audience member was hooked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was then that Andrew Hickson, now Media Production Manager of Ludejo BV, first heard about our work and just had to meet Aimee. As he learned more about the vision, to ensure that people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak, he felt there was more to be done.  \u201cWhen I got back from New York, I was very excited to talk to Malon about helping TWB.\u201d However, we weren\u2019t in a position to help financially. And Dutch isn\u2019t really a language that requires a huge amount of time or investment for TWB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beginning of a Fun(draiser) collaboration. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fundraising in 2017 – <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Andrew, and Ludejo\u2019s Founder & CEO, Malon, met Aimee once again at the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) conference in London. They got talking about ways in which they could help our nonprofit with the resources they had, and decided to commit to supporting our work by running fundraisers. <\/strong>They decided that the best way to bring language service providers (LSPs) together would be to organize a  fundraiser during the next GALA conference, which in 2017 was in Amsterdam, \u201ca home conference of sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI ran out of time and ideas for the fundraiser, so in a bit of a panic, I shaved off my beard. People seemed to like that.\u201d <\/p>Andrew Hickson from Ludejo explained.<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n