Giving for the Global Good

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 website you tell the story of the inspiring and empowering women in your life. With each online tribute, you’ll also be spreading empowerment and economic opportunity [...]

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Mission Statement Our mission is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to support the business license to operate, innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FINCA The mission of FINCA International is to provide financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. The vision of FINCA International is to become the leading global microfinance institution by providing financial services to more than one million clients annually by 2010, [...]

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 – [...]