Haiti, Chile, Japan… whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on…
Not to be flippant, but WhatGives!? with the earthquake in Chile? With a magnitude of 8.8, it was 500 times more powerful than the one in Haiti. Buildings fell, people died, water and utilities were...
View ArticleUsing Social Media for Social Good – A Case Study
When I heard about the earthquake in Haiti I was filled with despair as I saw the images come out of that country showing people’s lives changed forever. I wanted to do something more than send in my...
View ArticleStudents Rebuild – Getting Haiti Back to School
It’s spring break time for schools in the good ole US of A – a much-deserved recess from the grueling work of making yourself smarter. But (clunky transition alert!) not all children are lucky enough...
View ArticlePatricia Arquette’s Silver Love for Haiti
Patricia Arquette, co-founder of The Give Love Foundation, models the Hope, Love and Healing for Haiti necklace – sales of which will benefit earthquake victims. It’s been four months since the...
View ArticleHaitian Entrepreneurs Get Some Help From Mother Jones and MercyCorps
I am an entrepreneur, or at least that sounds better than what my wife says I do for a living. As an entrepreneur, I know that times can be up and down, and we wrestle with paying ourselves with our...
View ArticleWyclef Jean, Warrior of Action for Haiti
How do you measure devastation? By how many buildings are destroyed? By the death toll? By how many weeks an incident is the top story in the news? Because of the January 12th Haiti earthquake, more...
View ArticleTwitChange – A Little Less Talk, A Lot More Action
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead My phone rang about a year ago. As a Principal in the...
View ArticleDaily Deals Do Good
As a surge of online and offline communities centered around shopping and charitable giving are emerging across the digital landscape, the e-commerce revolution is ripening from retail therapy into...
View ArticleExpand Your Message, Not Your Budget
In this instant information age, there is the constant lure of what’s new and hot, and the perception that you must always be grabbing and re-grabbing your audience’s attention – much like waving keys...
View ArticlePassports with Purpose and Water.org
Heavens to Betsy, we almost missed it. What were we thinking? Where were our heads? Passports with Purpose ends its annual fundraiser for Water.org tonight at midnight EST. GAH! Their list of...
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