Philanthropy

September 27, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Pepsi makes brown sugar water that can contribute to obesity. Dove’s ‘Real beauty’ campaign was created by Unilever that also does the Axe campaign. Walmart has raised the bar on sustainability standards. In fact, almost every brand doing meaningful work can be accused of providing some product or service that can be harmful, and many so-called […]

September 23, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Today I’m speaking at Images and Voices of Hope, a gathering at Peace Village in the Catskills. The mountains are breathtaking but so is the ambition of the conference. It’s true we live in challenging times. There are so many concurrent global crises, governments around the world riddled with debt and philanthropies are so stretched. […]

August 27, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

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 in FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker that were purchased by users from 47 […]

June 21, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Here’s a link to five minutes of video from my seminar yesterday with Alec Ross from the U.S State Dept.. The topic was: ‘The How of Social media: Make or Break Lessons in Today’s Most Powerful Instrument of Change’. Plus a synopsis of the talk with hyperlinked case studies can be found here. Thank you again […]

February 19, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Cameron Sinclair founded the wonderful organization Architecture for Humanity that does so much meaningful work in distressed areas like Burma, New Orleans and now Haiti. What’s so exciting about their work is their commitment to emergency and long-term relief, their insistence and transparency and the insights Cameron provides as to how NGO’s and relief organizations […]

October 29, 2009 by Simon Mainwaring

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 at Lybba.