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A Guide To Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. However, deploying Facebook Apps to raise money for social causes is still in its early stages. He was one of 27 individuals to win the first Knight News Challenge.

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Southeast Asia, Social Enterprise Accidental Tour!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors. Not only do we get outstanding quality and value for our money, we also know that money is supporting a social objective by helping disadvantaged people build assets financially and experientially.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

CA: Without giving names, along the Thai-Burma border there is a project that we're funding with a fantastic former Thai Senator, Mechai Viravaidya, who is also the Chairman and Founder of the Population Community Development Association of Thailand. We keep having more and more people come across the Thai-Burma border.