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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Self-assessment for the poor : Empower the poor to improve their lives with a simple assessment tool, the Poverty Stoplight, invented in Paraguay that helps them assess their poverty with 50 simple questions with three pictures showing the possible answers. If we can do that, it could be the best and most powerful billion dollars ever spent!

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Major Gift Fundraising: Facts and Opinions from a Recovering Fundraising Consultant

Tech Soup

is sharing his wisdom on developing a major gifts program at nonprofits. Santa Barbara in 1995 and then spent two years as Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay. philanthropy, most of the money comes from people. This week, Craig Harris, the founder and CEO of NOZA, Inc. Here is where the money came from: Corporations: $14.5