cMarket, a online charity auction site, is creating some buzz these days. The venture was recently written about in a Businessweek article detailing the company’s goal: Having already raised $20 million in venture capital, Carson says the company is out to fine-tune the charity-auction process and develop a “national marketplace.” The article also delves into… Continue reading cMarket – A Charity Auction Startup
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Corporations Exploiting The Concept Of Socially Responsible Business?
I’m sure you’ve all seen the ads for Gap’s Product Red Campaign. Through this campaign, Gap, Apple, American Express and other companies offer products under the Red brand and give part of the profits to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The campaign uses a model similar to that used by Ethos… Continue reading Corporations Exploiting The Concept Of Socially Responsible Business?
Google To Install Record Number of Solar Panels At Its Headquarters
Search giant Google will begin constructing the nation’s largest solar electricity system on its Mountain View campus, the company said today. The system will have a total capacity of 1.6 megawattas, which is enough to power 1,000 homes in the US. The solar panels sound pretty complex. Energy Innovations, a company out of Pasadena, is… Continue reading Google To Install Record Number of Solar Panels At Its Headquarters
Microfinance Pioneer Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Adding more traction to the microfinance space, Bangladeshi banker and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He intends to use the prize money to set up a food company and a hospital in Bangladesh. “Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out… Continue reading Microfinance Pioneer Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Latest Trend: Giving Away Riches- Branson Gives $3 Billion To Fight Global Warming
Richard Branson, the famous entrepreneur who founded the Virgin companies, announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative that he will be giving away 100% of his profits from his travel-based businesses to fight global warming. “We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment,” said Branson. “We must hand it over to… Continue reading Latest Trend: Giving Away Riches- Branson Gives $3 Billion To Fight Global Warming
Analysis of Philanthropy- Katrina Relief
Foundation Center released a report titled “Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response,” which can be found here. The headliner at Business Week is that the report revealed that corporate foundations were the leaders in funding the Katrina relief efforts. (Via. Businessweek) While so many foundations… Continue reading Analysis of Philanthropy- Katrina Relief
Comparing Charities- Charity Navigator
Just throught I’d post a quick link to Charity Navigator, a 501(c)(3) non profit that evaluates charities. Why is this important? Because charitable giving is a huge market, approximately $700 billion dollars last year, according to Charity Navigator. We help charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions by providing information on over five thousand charities and… Continue reading Comparing Charities- Charity Navigator
Weekend Links: How Innovation Helped Rwanda Grow Coffee And Hope
The following is a link to a New York Times article about how coffee is making a difference in Rwanda, a country recently ravaged by civil war and genocide. Rwanda, a tiny East African country recently rent by a famously savage civil war, has found hope in that most colonial of crops: coffee. By riding… Continue reading Weekend Links: How Innovation Helped Rwanda Grow Coffee And Hope
Weekend Links- Distribution of $100 Laptop
I only have one link this weekend– The Linux Extremist raises some important questions about the distribution of the $100 laptop. (via digg) Nigeria is the easiest and most accessible example; they have placed the first order for 1 million of these laptops. However, it’s difficult to see what mechanisms are in place so that… Continue reading Weekend Links- Distribution of $100 Laptop
Tech Review On Coal- Why aren’t we using better extraction methods?
Here is a long article from Technology Review about the state of coal as an energy source. Coal supplies 24 percent of all global energy and 40 percent of all electricity, and it spews more carbon than any other fossil source — kilowatt for kilowatt, twice as much as natural gas. Yet coal is the… Continue reading Tech Review On Coal- Why aren’t we using better extraction methods?