Giving for the Global Good

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 global community. We work with people in traditional cultures to express the voice of the community to the world through original music, artwork, photography and video [...]

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 of late, I have been putting my money where my mouth is, donating to the EFF, the ACLU and Freepress. Through a Facebook group Indie [...]

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: JOIN YOUR HANDS WITH OURS You, too, can join the circle. Find out how you can make a difference by opening your hands to the children of [...]

Global Agents for Change is a fellow traveler with their GFAC fund The group’s vision is to create the world’s largest youth built, youth led microcredit fund and connecting youth with developing world entrepreneurs, providing a crucial tool in the fight to escape poverty. In 2007 they did a 7 week 3000 kilometer ride from [...]

As a parent, I am concerned that our children are growing up in an era of profound social, technological, political and economic change, with shifts in power and influence and growing international interdependence and between the “Have’s” and the “Have-not’s”. We adults, as teen role models, feel disempowered rather than engaged and involved as the [...]

Center for Social Innovation As an institution, the Stanford Graduate School of Business believes that business schools have a responsibility to teach students to be innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who can change the world. As such, the Center represents a cornerstone of the School’s multidisciplinary approach to management and leadership education. We invest our [...]