“MicroPlace, [is] the world’s only online brokerage specializing in socially responsible investments that alleviate poverty. Today we are launching a nationwide campaign to help the everyday investor address poverty with as little as $100 – using the spare change that is laying around your house.” Link to press release
Mosquito Nets Become Trendy
From NY Times: Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for Unicef on Halloween.… Continue reading Mosquito Nets Become Trendy
EquityEdit- Innovating In Global Public Health
Glad to see good things coming out of the alma mater! EquityEdit is a non-profit organization that partners with for-profit biomedical editing companies with the goal of generating funding global public health innovations. EquityEdit recruits and trains scientists from diverse backgrounds to edit and translate manuscripts written by researchers for whom English is a second… Continue reading EquityEdit- Innovating In Global Public Health
Facebook Causes Statistics
Causes, a Facebook-only application that promotes viral donations of time and money to charities and nonprofits, launched a year ago. They’ve now released statistics today on their usage and donation numbers for that first year. Link
The Mind Trust Accepting Applications For Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that The Mind Trust (www.themindtrust.org) is accepting applications for the second cohort of its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship. Dr. Michael Bitz was recently selected as the first Education Entrepreneur Fellowship recipient, and will use the Fellowship to launch Youth Music Exchange (YME). The Fellowship, a nationally unique incubator for transformative education… Continue reading The Mind Trust Accepting Applications For Education Entrepreneur Fellowship
Microsoft Plans To Join OLPC
There’s been lots of drama with OLPC but hopefully the non-profit can work through it and make some progress with their new partner Microsoft: The alliance between Microsoft and O.L.P.C. comes after long stretches of antagonism, punctuated by occasional talks, between the two sides. Mr. Negroponte, a former computer researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of… Continue reading Microsoft Plans To Join OLPC
AmeriCorps Week Is Here
AmeriCorps Week is a recruitment and recognition event designed to bring more Americans into service, salute AmeriCorps members and alums for their powerful impact, and thank the community partners who make AmeriCorps possible. AmeriCorps Week provides an opportunity for AmeriCorps members, alums, grantees, program partners, and friends to shine a spotlight on the work done… Continue reading AmeriCorps Week Is Here
Google Links To Charities For Myanmar Disaster Relief
This is great and I hope they raise a lot of money
Million Trees NYC
A tree-mendous month! Due to all of our upcoming events we are extending our inaugural MillionTreesNYC Month through May 18. Find out the latest events. About A Million Trees: MillionTreesNYC, one of the 127 PlaNYC initiatives, is a citywide, public-private program with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across… Continue reading Million Trees NYC
Microsoft’s i’m Program Available To Hotmail Users
Hat tip to TechCrunch, “Microsoft’s i’m Initiative, which launched in March 2007, has expanded to include Hotmail. The program donates a portion of the ad revenue generated through Hotmail and Messenger to any of ten worthwhile causes.” Background on Microsoft i’m: i’m is an initiative from Microsoft. Every time you use Windows Liveâ„¢ Messenger or… Continue reading Microsoft’s i’m Program Available To Hotmail Users