December 2008
7 posts
Micro-giving on the Huff Po
Ran the following essay on the Huff Po over xmas. Piece by Ken Lerer and I on what we are learning from the charity water drive and the possibilities of micro-giving.
Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising
Thirty years ago, a young economics professor named Muhammad Yunus started a new kind of banking in Bangladesh — tiny loans to small entrepreneurs. Few thought these dreamers in a...
An experiment in Microfunding and new forms of...
Late last week we kicked off a drive to raise $25,000 for http://www.charitywater.org/ — a non-profit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We launched this over Twitter — in partnership with Pistachio and Tipjoy.
In the first 24 hrs we raised $944 from 144 people. As of today — Saturday — we have pledges of $1400 from 213 people,...
thks AW — wonderful - newspeedwayboogie:
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Relative search
Its been a while since I have posted on my blog. There has been a lot of work to do and i’m in the process of consolidating this blog with my tumblog. More to come but for now a quick post on Google Search Wiki.
I have been using it for the past few weeks on and i finally figured out why it annoys me way more than the average beta product — I have philosophically issues with this...
