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I'm thrilled to share with you the exciting news that Jumo is combining forces with GOOD to create a powerful online content and social engagement platform. This is an enormous opportunity for our talented teams to build a single community of like-minded people and mission-driven organizations. When we started Jumo over a year and half ago, we had a simple mission: to use technology to help everyday people have a meaningful impact on the world. We’ve long believed that the best way to facilitate positive change is to connect individuals to outstanding organizations working on the ground in our communities and around the world. Today, we are one step closer to fulfilling this goal. GOOD brings to the table a vibrant community of three million monthly users who read and interact with their dynamic content.Steven Pham walked into a Westwood coffee shop with great trepidation about meeting a new mentor a few years ago. Then a freshman at UCLA, Pham was nervous and shy and dreaded awkward silences. Pham had just become an Earl Woods Scholar, and with the $5,000-a-year-scholarship to UCLA came the guidance of Tiger Woods Foundation board member Andy Bielanski. Pham didn't say much at first, but after a few meetings, he opened up and began to connect with Bielanski, a businessman who has done a lot of work helping Third World countries.
Jill Painter: Inspiration for UCLA's Steven Pham starts with a good foundation - LA Daily News
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I have noticed in both observing and working with non profits that their uptake and utilization of social media is creative, innovative and extensive and when I came upon this study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research who had recently completed (June 2009) one of the first statistically significant studies on the usage of social media by United States charities that my anecdotal suspicions were supported by empirical evidence. The new study compares organizational adoption of social media in 2007 and 2008 by the 200 largest charities in the United States as compiled annually by Forbes Magazine. For complete details on Forbes Magazine’s list of the largest charities, please visit their website at Forbes.com . They are some of the best-known charities in the country including the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities USA, Habitat for Humanity International and Easter Seals.
Umovement Hopes to Empower NGOs Across the World
Everyone’s heard of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Red Cross or Oxfam, but fewer people are aware that the long tail of NGOs adds up to 1.5 million entities in the United State alone According to Kamran Elahian, co-chair of of UNGAID and co-founder of Global Catalyst Partners , smaller organizations across the world are doing amazing work but lack a global voice. But Elahian plans to give smaller NGOs that voice through Umovement , part of his plan to “democratize the world of philanthropy.”The Arab Digital Vanguard: Cyber Activists Reshape the Middle East - The US/Saudi Arms Deal - Water Woes, Water Wars? - The MidEast Memo
THE ARAB DIGITAL VANGUARD: CYBER ACTIVISTS RESHAPING THE MIDDLE EAST Pan-Arabism – the sense of a unified vision and action across the Arab world – has long lost hold in the Arab street. But it’s alive, in a way, in cyberspace. Among tech savvy young Arabs there’s a new map of the Middle East, in which cyber activists from Riyadh to Rabat share ideas, engage in debate, and unite over the common values – foremost a belief in the fundamental right to free speech. There are deep differences by country, but among a certain set of internet forums, Facebook accounts, and Twitter feeds is connected by a palpable solidarity; they tackle hot topics, link to each other, and launch an uproar whenever one of their own is arrested (at present, there’s a raging campaign to release Bahraini Blogger Ali Abdulemam and Syrian teenager Tal al-Mallohi).
"Civil Society 2.0" a Tech@State/World Bank Event - Eventbrite
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Pa. man to give $1K for each jobless worker hired - BusinessWeek
A suburban Philadelphia philanthropist who believes charity is a powerful incentive thinks he can help get Americans back to work one donation at a time. Gene Epstein, 71, is promoting a $250,000 effort called Hire Just One, with plans to make $1,000 donations to charity in the name of businesses that hire an unemployed person and keep the worker on the payroll for at least six months. Epstein, who amassed a personal fortune through car sales and real estate investments, has set aside his money for the first 250 hires -- and thinks thousands more jobs could be created if others took on his idea, too. "It's an encouragement to businesses to not wait," said Epstein, who thinks the incentive may be just enough to get small businesses over the hump to make a hire in tough economic times. "This becomes like an incredible stimulus program." The idea came to Epstein at his sprawling home in suburban Bucks County last month.