Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

It isn't difficult for me to care and want to help a cause, or an individual entrepreneur on Kiva , or a reader who emails me for advice. I came to realize that, at least for me, the most difficult thing to give away sometimes is compassion for individuals I encounter in every day life. A Day Late and a Dollar Short and Dream Big!

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JULY 11, 2009

Cross posted from SSIR ] "Green Shoots" for New Philanthropic Forms I’ve been writing about information as the currency of change for a long time. Submitted by Lucy Bernholz, publisher of Philanthropy 2173.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Thanks to wonderful organizations like Kiva , and the ONE Campaign , people are becoming more aware of the huge difference a small loan, or donation to an international organization can make to purchase a net to prevent malaria, or help a family start a business. It's just really hard. I don't know why they look at us the way they do."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

I'd been looking forward to GOOD for a while after Green LA Girl wrote about it, and after talking to Christine Soto at the GOOD Magazine booth at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp. While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. I read my new issue of Ode , With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky, and a new magazine, GOOD.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. Max Gladwell also has more.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

And while Pete Cashmore announced that he would be doing a charity event in September around his 24th birthday, I'm wondering what charity wedding registry Sharon and Adam will register with? ( Kiva ?) Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered the opening keynote. Randi suggests that having a personality is an asset.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

I'm a big fan of Kiva too. Dawn Sarli of Servin' It Up is celebrating the week as part of the Altruism and the Good Life course she is co-teaching at Green Mountain College in VT. Here are just a handful of resources to get you started: Time: VolunteerMatch is a great place to start looking for a volunteer opportunity.

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