We are looking to target the tens of millions of American teen students who are the wealthiest, most connected and most diverse generation in our history. They control literally billions in spending annually and represent nearly every country, religion, and language on earth. Over 95% of this country’s teens make regular use of the Internet to chat, email, and connect with friends and family worldwide and are uniquely poised to tackle the world’s greatest problems.
Our proposition is that this generation has the power and will to leverage their collective influence to support grassroots initiatives around the world, and through their successes (and some failures) gain a deeper understanding of their power for change and of the role of America and its citizens in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.
Giving for the Global Good is an idea whose time has come. We feel that it can be a brand embraced by a small kernel of the American youth who feel engaged by the need to be proactive and do something about creating a sustainable future for the world. There are many kids out there who have desire, the resources and the drive to engage in supporting microfinance initiatives utilizing the viral communication channels of the Internet and the rapidly growing social networks.
It is possible, by getting the information on the potential of global change using MicroFinance, that these kids could become bankers to the ‘unbankable’, and in doing so help the worlds working poor.
This site is a simple visual and link based aggregator, enabling both kids and adults a single place to find out about the ideas of microfinance, microloans and the concepts behind becoming a social entrepreneur.
Please contact us if you would like us to include a visual, a link and an ‘about’ for your site, to help you get found in this keyword space
admin, October 2nd 2009 |
Tags: Giving for the Global Good, Info
Posted in Microfinance, Microloan
Greenstar delivers solar power, health, education and environmental programs to small villages in the developing world — and connects people in those villages, and their traditional culture, to the [...] Continue Reading…
admin, September 26th 2009 |
Posted in Center for Social Innovation, Changing the World, alleviating poverty, anti-poverty strategy, benefit communities
There are communities around the world in need of homes, jobs, and facilities such as daycare. You want to help, but don’t want to give money away. Is it possible [...] Continue Reading…
admin, September 26th 2009 |
Posted in alleviating poverty, anti-poverty strategy
I follow Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch pretty closely – in the online space, who doesn’t ?
Today I read a long write up Mike did on Kiva, the microloan site. As [...] Continue Reading…
admin, June 10th 2009 |
Tags: Kiva in America, MicroEconomics, Microfinance, MicroLoans
Posted in Changing the World, Kiva in America, anti-poverty strategy, benefit communities
My longtime freind Margaret Roach and sometime creative collaborator launched open Your hands project a couple of years ago and has built a website to follow the project:
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admin, February 9th 2009 |
Tags: Give, Margaret Roach, MicroLoans, Nepal, Open Your Hands, School, Schools
Posted in Changing the World, alleviating poverty, anti-poverty strategy, benefit communities, build civil society, educational opportunities, empowering individuals
I was searching Flickr to find a photographer based in Katmandu Nepal to do an assignment for me, and in my keyword search using Flickr’s tagging search engine I [...] Continue Reading…
admin, January 16th 2009 |
Posted in Microcredit, Uncategorized, empowering individuals, young people
Check out Global Agents for Change
On May 31st, more than 20 people will ride their bikes 3,000km from Vancouver to Tijuana, Mexico to raise money and awareness for entrepreneurs [...] Continue Reading…
DCatzel, May 15th 2008 |
Tags: Dr. Muhammad Yunus, entrepreneur, Global Agents for Change, Kiva, Microfinance
Posted in Microcredit, Uncategorized, alleviating poverty, empowering individuals, entrepreneurs in the developing world, offered a solution, social entrepreneurs, young people, young social entrepreneurs
LINK to Official OLPC site
This post might be a bit out of scope for Giving for the Global Good, but as a fairly serious geek in tune with the [...] Continue Reading…
admin, May 14th 2008 |
Tags: Ivan Krsti?, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop per Child
Posted in Uncategorized
This Mother’s Day is May 11th. Unitus has created a unique opportunity to celebrate the occasion while also helping the fight against global poverty.
Check out the Empowering Women [...] Continue Reading…
DCatzel, May 1st 2008 |
Tags: economic opportunity, empowering women, Microfinance, Mother’s Day, Unitus microfinance
Posted in Uncategorized