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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ACCION ACCION’s Mission The mission of ACCION International is to give people the tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing microloans, business training and other financial services to poor men and women who start their own businesses, ACCION’s partner lending organizations help people work their own way up the economic [...]

Have Fun, Do Good Britt Bravo is a writer specializing in stories about individuals and organizations that are creating social change. She writes for blogs, produces podcasts and teaches people how to blog and podcast. Britt writes for Have Fun * Do Good, BlogHer and NetSquared. She also produces the Big Vision Podcast, the Arts [...]