Giving for the Global Good

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 [...]

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 found the Panos Network. Wow ! Blew my mind, wanted to use ‘Giving for the Global Good’ to get the word out. Panos in not one [...]

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 in developing countries. Agents of Change, a nonprofit registered charity, hopes to raise $1 million from the challenge to connect those living in poverty with [...]

Whole Planet Foundation Our Mission The Whole Planet Foundation’s mission is to create economic partnerships with the poor in those developing-world communities that supply our stores with product. Through innovative assistance for entrepreneurship – including direct microcredit loans and tangible support for other community partnership projects – we seek to unleash the energy and creativity [...]

Tinkosong Tinkosong.com is a team of young Malaysians who are dedicated to collecting and distributing information about educational opportunities in and out of Malaysia. All comments, suggestions and contributions welcome. Tinkosong was started in late 2005 after an angry blogpost about Malaysian education on Joyce’s blog received numerous comments – none of which offered a [...]

Women for Women From Victim to Survivor…to Active Citizen Women for Women International mobilizes women to change their lives by bringing a holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of women in conflict and post-conflict environments. We begin by working with women who may have lost everything in conflict and often have nowhere else to [...]

Global Giving We connect people like you with great projects you might not otherwise find. Much like eBay’s approach to online commerce, GlobalGiving is changing the way people give. We work with a network of well-run organizations and carefully research their projects – gathering detailed information on the project leaders, as well as the projects’ [...]

Kiva Loan to the Working Poor Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals in need of funding – [...]