Rakuten Social Accelerator moves community empowerment online
- February 2, 2021
- by Rakuten.today

Since 2018, the Rakuten Social Accelerator program has worked with around a dozen socially-oriented groups tackling everything from building solar-powered phone charging stations in Tanzania to reviving abandoned houses in depopulated Japan. The program partners volunteer employees to work with the groups over a period of six months, leveraging Rakuten’s technological and business expertise to …