I love how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is using innovative strategies to try to find innovative solutions to some of the most serious issues on the planet, such as poverty, hunger, disease and a lack of education. This foundation just announced that 81 projects will receive $100,000 grants for 5-year health research projects [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Hunger, Poverty, Social Enterprise | No Comments »
I just watch an online video clip of a speech given by Paul Collier, an economist and the author of “The Bottom Billion”. Paul advocates four steps that we can take to help the one billion people who are trapped in poor or failing countries. He calls this group the “bottom billion” and [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Innovation, Microlending, Poverty | No Comments »
Kiva is one of the greatest uses of the Internet to do good. Kiva is an online microlending service that allows people anywhere to lend money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world. Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva works to qualify [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Giving Back, Microlending, Poverty, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 1 Comment »
