Eight years ago this month, a series of terrorist attacks brought down 4 planes, two towers, took thousands of lives and shook the world. Regardless of your religion or political affiliation, the attacks on that day resulted in nearly 3,000 people losing their lives. September 11th has been an un-official historic day in the [...]
My predilection for the occasional cigarette has more to do with the rules of engagement than any kind of nicotine craving. Mom, I know you’re rolling your eyes and muttering, “you have an answer for everything”, but hear me out. I’m an extremely gregarious person – I carry on chatting with strangers at bus [...]
If you’re in a socially conscious start-up and are seeking innovative venues of funding or just a regular Joe looking to support your favorite charity, then you should definitely consider Twitter a friend.
Twitter offers multiple ways to connect your nonprofit or social change organization to funding options.
Small Funding
To find small funding on Twitter [...]
The recent 1 million dollar donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation to the UN Refugee Agency has brought awareness to this horrifying tragedy happening all around the globe. The crisis of protecting, the currently 42 million refugees worldwide, is as necessary today as it was 59 years ago. That is when the United Nations created the [...]
Today we kicked off our morning with an energetic and informative conversation with Tracey Turner, founder of MicroPlace. We’d like to take moment and briefly focus the spotlight on the awesome work they’re doing.
If you’re not familiar with MicroPlace, you can think of it as having a similar model to Kiva with one distinct [...]
I recently got the chance to speak with Jolkona Foundation’s inspirational Executive Director and co-founder Adnan Mahmud. Adnan is a very busy man, besides the executive responsibilities at Jolkona Foundation, and launching the site June 9th, he is a full time Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, Washington. He shared with me the touching [...]
During each month in 2009 Mae will post a new song on WhatIsMae.com that can be downloaded for a minimum donation of $1.
Like Wilco in SocialEarth’s recent blog post, Mae is another American rock band that is committed to making a difference by giving away their music for donations to charity.
Since Jan. 1, 2009, [...]
Whether you’re looking to buy a new purse online, or just wondering what the Magic-Lakers score is, you can use a search engine that will donate to the cause of your choice.
The site is GoodSearch.com and using it is as easy as one, two, three.
1. Choose your cause or school (yes, you can even [...]
What if there was a Website that would plant a tree for you just by signing up? It would be pretty easy to make an impact, huh?
Socially conscious networks are sprouting up across the Web and new start-up Everywun is pioneering the online difference-making. Users participate on the site by earning and using credits [...]
It couldn’t be easier. Sign up, choose your favorite cause and start a virtual campaign via your email in minutes.
ReplyForAll is a free service that allows an advocate to choose a cause and promote it with a slick image, info and ad through your Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail account.
You can even add one of [...]
That’s right. With this May’s unveiling of the Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs, Guinness has proven that we may actually be able to drink away our sorrows. If not our own – we’ll at least be able to take a punch at the greater social ills of the world. As a part of [...]
Do you enjoy gardening? How about virtual gardening with a real life environmental benefit?
(Lil) Green Patch is a social gardening application on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo that is focused on saving the planet. The social networking application has already donated over $162,000 to the Nature Conservancy, a global conservation effort. That is pretty good [...]
