Next week at Citizen Space:
Are you looking for new fundraising models that are fun, engaging and use the social web? Come hear Matt Flannery, CEO and Co-Founder of Kiva.org, the first Web site to let anyone with a PayPal account be a “banker to the poor”, and Pim Techamuanvivit (Chez Pim) a food blogger who raised $17,000 for UNICEF with her 2005 Menu for Hope campaign.
The second Tuesday of each month, social changemakers and web innovators get together to network, socialize and share ideas at Net Tuesday, an event produced by NetSquared, www.netsquared.org, a project of TechSoup, www.techsoup.org.
When: Tuesday, December 12th, from 6-8 PM
Where: Citizen Space (425 Second St. #300)
You can RSVP on Upcoming: http://upcoming.org/event/127159/
NetSquared’s Meetup group: http://netsquared.meetup.com/1/
Or by emailing: net2@techsoup.org
Speaker Bios:
Matt Flannery began developing Kiva.org in late 2004 as a side-project while working as a computer programmer at TiVo Inc. In December 2005 Matt left TiVo to devote himself to Kiva.org full-time. As CEO, Matt is a 2006 Global Social Benefit Incubator entrepreneur and a featured blogger on the Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge website. He graduated with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a Masters in Analytical Philosophy from Stanford University. You can read Matt’s blog “The Kiva Chronicles” on Social Edge.
Pim Techamuanvivit grew up in Bangkok, was shipped off to study in other places, and somehow found herself living and loving it in the San Francisco Bay Area. She quit her Silicon Valley job in 2005 to pursue a career in food: the writing, reporting, and basically anything interesting thereof that comes her way. Her recipes, writings, and photographs have since appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, Bon Appétit magazine, among others. You can read Pim’s blog Chez Pim.
3 Comments
Thanks for spreading the word about this event! It is going to be awesome.
For folks who want to learn more about Kiva’s work, the New York Times did a story about them today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section4.t-6.html
For people who want to take part in Chez Pim’s 2006 Menu for Hope, it started today:
http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2006/12/menu_for_hope_i.html
I wish we could have made it down. For whatever reason, we can get neither private investors (with a couple of small exceptions) nor grant-giving agencies to invest in our blogging-for-others project (Blogswana). Perhaps we’ll try ChipIn. I think the idea has to capture the imagination of enough people regardless of the fundraising mechanisms you have in place. Perhaps we’re going at it in too “chunky” a fashion, as in all or nothing. I’ll definitely go over and check out what I can find about these two projects’ relationship to fundraising. Kiva we already have blogrolled but Menu for Hope I hadn’t heard of.
Tara
Funny how things are linked.
As a footnote to a post I just finished writing on my blog ‘Serge the Concierge’ I mentioned how ‘Menu for Hope 3′ in which I participated has raised more than 3 times the amount of the 2005 edition.
I visited the ‘Citizen Agency’ blog after reading your post on ‘Think Vitamin’.
What you describe as community can be found in many forms, local, global, virtual.
Sometimes I find out about services that could be useful for my clients through my blogging.
Participating in an event like ‘Menu for Hope 3′ which involved people the world over first gives me the satisfaction of doing good and also gives me access to many practical resources both in my writing and my concierge business.
This is where the word ‘web’ means something.
Happy New Year
Serge
Biz:
http://www.njconcierges.com
Blog:
http://www.sergetheconcierge.com