Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact. We build our tech-for-good products and reach dollar-by-dollar, and therefore every gift makes a difference for the people we serve. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

Open Source 183

Open Source Africa Zimbabwe Malawi 183

Connection Cafe

MAY 17, 2012

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. passed, my mom responded by giving me the most memorable birthday gift of my life: a box of monogrammed stationary. After a few weeks (months?)

Malawi 53

Malawi Ethiopia Ecuador Hunger 53

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

And Camfed raised $4,500 to build a roof on a school in Malawi , then turned around and funded another $3,386 project to give shoes to schoolgirls in Zimbabwe. . The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada.

Causes 87

Causes Zimbabwe Fundraising Malawi 87

NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. You'd be wrong.

Story 98

Story Org Work Data 98