Tag Archives: Non-profits

How social gaming uses virtual giving to get real results

August 27, 2010 30 Comments


One of the most encouraging and exciting applications of social gaming is the ability to leverage its massive popularity to generate contributions to causes and humanitarian crises. We saw this in January this year when Zynga created limited edition items …

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How Non-Profits think like For-Profits

April 8, 2010 7 Comments


Connect Now Revised View more presentations from Simon Mainwaring. Here are my slides from Connect Now in Sydney today. The topic is: “How Non-profits think like For Profits”. I’m sharing these here because I want the seminar to be a creative exchange …

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Educate Girls Globally: Interview with Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain (Part 3)

April 2, 2010 0 Comments


This is the final instalment of my chat with Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain of EGG. Part 1 focused on what they do and how they are achieving their amazing results. Part 2 addressed community mobilization and the roles of …

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Educate Girls Globally: Education, Literacy and Community for Change

March 18, 2010 5 Comments


One of the highlights of my recent trip to Doha was the chance to work with people like Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain, the founder and Executive Director (respectively) of Educate Girl Globally (EGG) that is revolutionizing schooling and the …

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GUEST INTERVIEW: Jesse Dylan, TEDMED speaker and film director

October 29, 2009 0 Comments


Jesse Dylan is speaking today at TEDMED discussing his new healthcare non-profit, Lybba. It just received a coveted NIH grant and has enormous potential to transform the healthcare experience for millions of people around the world. Here’s a sneak peak …

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Using social media for change: What’s awareness without action?

September 23, 2009 0 Comments


For the last few weeks I’ve been working on the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s ‘I Participate’ campaign. Having worked with several non-profits, I’ve found they face a similar challenge. While raising awareness for a cause, issue or initiative was vital, getting …

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‘I Partipicate’: When serving ourselves is anything but selfish

September 11, 2009 0 Comments


Over the last few weeks I’ve had the privilege of working as Creative Director on the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s ‘I Participate’ campaign. Mayor Bloomberg launched it yesterday in Times Square and the first ad featuring the First Lady Michelle Obama …

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