Posts Tagged with ‘philanthropy’

There have been a ton of globally and ecologically aware companies that have caught my eye over the past few weeks, so many that I feel like I'm playing catch-up just to get a chance to look at them all. I had several new-to-me companies saved in my browser, and at first glance, I wasn't at all happy with what I saw.
The first three companies are all Web 2.0 donation companies. Obviously, the success of microlending organizations like Kiva led [...]

I was out of town when I received this news, so it is a little late coming but significant enough for all of us to make an effort on. Tim Ferris, a NYT's Best Selling Author, just launched the largest online literacy and educational experiment ever attempted. LitLiberation, in conjunction with DonorsChoose.org and RoomtoRead, have set a goal to raise $1 million dollars in 30 days via mostly tech blogs. My friends at FutureWorks jumped in as have dozens of [...]

Do you recall, several seasons back, MTV trying to break into the music retail online to combat (or follow, however you?d like to put it) iTunes and its steadily growing domination over the market? It made the attempt with Urge, a Windows Media Player-based outlet. As Viacom, the owner of MTV, discovered rather quickly, however, it never quite made much of a name for itself, despite a hefty publicity push. (It is now residing in merger with Real Networks' Rhapsody.)
Well, [...]

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, and Jimmy Wales has operated the multilingual virtual encyclopedia for??6 years without the first ad. If you think about this for a minute the significance of operating one of the world’s most popular web sites without a scrap of adverting for years really sinks in. Who does this kind of thing, governments?
News from Reuters/Yahoo!??today announced that Wikipedia may add some trivia games and quiz programs in [...]

PRWEB, January 11, 2007 — GraffitiPad.com is selling advertising spots to fund a new program for college scholarships. According to the press release the site will sell “pixels” on their web site for $.49 cents each to fund the scholarship awards. Rainier Trinidad, the project’s creator, launched the funding program to expand the exposure his past philanthropic efforts have had. According to Trinidad, the Internet will help generate enough funding to finance 60 - $1000 scholarships per month, over a five year period.
Rising tuition [...]