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Zenia Wadhwani Are you up for a challenge?

CanadaHelps is super excited to launch The CanadaHelps Great Canadian Giving Challenge! Inspired by America's Giving Challenge that started two years ago, we were similarly interested in inspiring Canadians to demonstrate how the power of social networking can do good. During the four weeks of this Challenge (from November 23rd to December 20th), we're asking Canadians across the country to set up a CanadaHelps GivingPage and then network to raise either the most money or the most number… Continue

Added by Zenia Wadhwani on November 25, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Scott Stadum Connecting the Gaps: Launching a Global Network of Idealists

A Idealist.org, we think it's time to build a global network that will serve and support all those people who want to make the world a better place, online and in person. This is the idea that has always grounded and fueled our work. We believe that all over the world people and communities face three common challenges: * There is often a big gap between our good intentions and our actions. * Our problems are connected, but we are not. * The world is full of good ideas that don't spread quickl… Continue

Added by Scott Stadum on November 23, 2009 at 11:38am — No Comments

William Logai Ochieng ONURA SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT - SUDAN.

My village needs two classrooms and a library, but the community cannot afford it. I am raising money for the construction costs and I need your help in the funding of the project. The rooms in which grades 4 and 5 currently learn are huts with grass roofs. The problems and distractions these edifices create are endless. When it rains, the roof sounds like a drum roll and the floors flood. When it is windy, the roof shakes and rumbles, and papers fly everywhere because there is no door… Continue

Added by William Logai Ochieng on November 21, 2009 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Sylvia Ng “Does microlending fight poverty?” – Wrong Question To Ask

This is a cross-post from charitychamps.wordpress.com On this blog I’ve written two previous posts on microfinance (also known as microcredit or microlending) and its effects. Well the debate regarding whether microlending solves poverty still rages on, and this month, the Boston Globe published a fairly extensive article containing much supporting material that concludes microfinance doesn’t actually do much to alleviate poverty. If you’re interested in the subject I would definitely recommend… Continue

Added by Sylvia Ng on November 20, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

David Martel Colorado Rocky Mountain School junior inspires student body with FACE AIDS presentation

This blog is from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School's Blog "The fight for health as a human right, a fight with real promise, has so far been plagued by failures. Failure because we are chronically short of resources. Failure because we are too often at the mercy of those with the power and money to decide the fates of hundreds of millions. Failure because ill health, as we have learned again and again, is more of… Continue

Added by David Martel on November 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Elliot Harmon Fab Lab and Do-It-Yourself Infrastructure Building

Originally posted on the TechSoup Blog.

Here's a photo of a directional antenna that can transmit Wi-Fi Internet several miles. Anyone

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Added by Elliot Harmon on November 19, 2009 at 12:38am — 2 Comments

Jennifer Simckowitz One Woman Creates Initiative to Feed Kenyans with Back Pack Farming

This is a cross post from AllVoices

Rachel Zedeck thought a back pack could feed a Kenyan family for months. She made this thought a reality through her Back Pack Farm program. As a life-long humanitarian dedicated to helping people, Rachel extended h… Continue

Added by Jennifer Simckowitz on November 18, 2009 at 3:43pm — No Comments

Fred Smith Give the Gift of Sight this Christmas

If you're struggling with your Christmas shopping this year take a look at the range of gifts on offer at our online gift shop www.giftofsight.co.uk The Sightsavers' gift list gives you a great opportunity to buy your friends and loved ones a fantastic present which could have a huge impact on someone's life in the developing world. This year we've tried to get into the Christmas spirit and made a festive video to help promote th… Continue

Added by Fred Smith on November 18, 2009 at 5:14am — No Comments

Christine Egger Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and 3BL Businesses: Notes from 2009 Net Impact Conference session

This past Friday I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the 2009 Net Impact Conference: Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and Triple Bottom Line Businesses What… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on November 17, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

Sylvia Ng Toques & Beavers a Must Visit for Canadians

This is a cross-post from charitychamps.wordpress.com If you follow this blog you’d know that I’m always on the look-out for online microphilanthropies with a Canadian bent (I am Canadian afterall). For the most part I actually don’t think it really matters where the microphilanthropy is based, but sometimes it does affect whether as a Canadian I can participate in the programs, and other times it affects whether Canadian charities are the beneficiaries or not. So I was quite delighted to disc… Continue

Added by Sylvia Ng on November 13, 2009 at 11:04am — No Comments

Elliot Harmon Causes Leaves MySpace: Should We Care?

Originally published on the TechSoup Blog.

There's been a lot of discussion over the past week about Causes leaving MySpace and becoming a Facebook-only application. In a sense, the news isn't that

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Added by Elliot Harmon on November 12, 2009 at 5:35pm — No Comments

David Martel KooDooZ Corporation debuts youth engagement program that delivers social innovation curricula in the classroom

The following excerpt is from a KoozDooZ article released today on 3BL Media The week’s materials kicks off in tandem Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) at the Soledad Enrichment Action Girls Academy. These high school students will be given tangible examples of how today’s youth can play a role in meeting some of the world’s most challenging problems -- including po… Continue

Added by David Martel on November 11, 2009 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Eva Tuxbury Kermit Got It Wrong...It Is Easy Being Green!

Did you know that by reversing into a parking space instead of driving straight in could save you 25% on fuel? The reason is that you can drive straight out on a cold engine, instead of maneuvering on a cold engine. It's more efficient and greener. If everyone in a medium-sized city caught on to this money-saving/earth-saving tip, we could collectively save a much more interesting total of $15 million every year! Did you know that cooking in a slow cooker for 7 or 8 hours uses 1/3 of the energ… Continue

Added by Eva Tuxbury on November 9, 2009 at 5:34am — No Comments

Wayne Peters Introduction from a Website Design guy.

I used to think that business and commerce were the things that make our world a cold place to be. The idea of running after a bottom line above all else even at the expence of human indignity seemed repulsive to me. After studying social work at an undergraduate and graduate level I must admit that I did not really understand that corporate entities could make a possitive difference. It was only when I branched out into the world of entrepreneurship and… Continue

Added by Wayne Peters on November 8, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Sylvia Ng Kiva not what it seems…?

This is a cross-post from charitychamps.wordpress.com If you’ve been following the debate surrounding whether microcredit works or not you’ll be interested to read A Mostly Comprehensive Guide to the Kiva and Donor Illusion Debate, written earlier this month. While I’ve written several articles on this blog about microcredit and its impacts on third world communities, I have never focused in on any particular microcredit organization, and if you could only analyze one it would obviously be Kiva… Continue

Added by Sylvia Ng on November 6, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Chris Jarvis Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (1 of 7)

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. “We want a volunteer experience that can be done in no more than a day, and no less than a half-day.” Companies want to engage their communities through employee volunteering programs. For most, this means calling a non-profit and schedulin… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on November 6, 2009 at 3:25pm — 2 Comments

Karl Miller How to Improve Targeted Microinsurance Donating

There are several areas to improve to make targeted microinsurance donations a more effective way of helping the poor. Among these: Responsibility: some feel that the subsidization of insurance by donors can erode personal responsibility and create a sense of expectation among policyholders that donors will automatically bail them out if they miss a payment. To counter this, donations should be applied at random by the insurance company so that there is no sense of automatic help. A targ… Continue

Added by Karl Miller on October 21, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions and Open Data Standards: A conversation is building

Watching several conversations unfold related to open data, and open data standards, for the philanthropic sector. I caught up with most of them just last night, and had a hard time falling asleep. It's fantastic to feel the momentum shift from either-or questions about whether an organization should be transparent or not, to the kind of nuanced Q&A engaged in here. Of course, I'm excited, especially, for the potential to more broadly encourage data standards for the nonprofit sector (see Ma… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on November 4, 2009 at 3:57pm — 2 Comments

Sylvia Ng Vote for Charity CHAMPS, boost microphilanthropy!

Today is day 3 of Round 2 of the Aviva Community Fund up in Canada. The slogan of the competition is "Supporting what's important to you". Charity CHAMPS is promoting microphilanthropy amongst youth, the most important, but least engaged demographic in philanthropy. That's important to us! Also unlike a lot of the other ideas competing for votes, ours has a fundamental online and micro-action foundation which we think there needs to be more of. Philanthropy needs to benefit from the huge change… Continue

Added by Sylvia Ng on November 3, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Elliot Harmon The Phone Test

This post originally appeared on the TechSoup Blog.

Here's an idea from our friend Laura at Idealware: what if you measured any communications metho

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Added by Elliot Harmon on November 3, 2009 at 2:38pm — 1 Comment

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