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The Road to 100% Giving: Building Sustainable Nonprofits To End Extreme Poverty
Bartlomiej Jan Skorupa, Groundwork Opportunities (GO)
Money, money, money. There is need everywhere. We want to raise a new generation and mobilize the youth! We want to provide jobs for women! We are training future leaders! And on and on. Each beautiful, each worthy. Against a backdrop of mounting social issues and game-changing innovation in the social sector, nonprofits must attract funding through non-traditional ways. Meanwhile, leaders find difficulty balancing this reality while fully devoting themselves to their mission. Learn how Kiva, Universal Giving, and Groundwork Opportunities (GO) do both and give 100% of donations to cause while building resilient and self-sustaining models that alleviate extreme poverty.
branding, collaboration, collaborative consumption, community, corporate, creativity, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Data, development, Education, entrepreneurship, food, gender, global, health, innovation, international, investing, local, marketing, measurement, new economy, non-profit, philanthropy, placemaking, poverty, sharing, social media, sustainability, systems thinking, technology, water, youth
Panel
Intermediate
Pamela Hawley is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving™, an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give money and volunteer with vetted, quality opportunities all over the world. Opportunities range from giving $100 to help a woman in Latin America start her own business, to volunteering with impoverished children in Kenya. To date, volunteers through UniversalGiving have contributed the value of over $18 million in volunteer time. All projects are vetted through UniversalGiving’s trademarked, proprietary Quality Model.™ 100% of each donation goes directly to the cause. UniversalGiving Corporate assists Fortune 500 companies scale their global CSR programs worldwide, including clients such as Cisco, Fluor Corporation and Symantec. Pamela is a winner of the Jefferson Award, a finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and an Expert Blogger on CSR for Fast Company. She has been invited to the White House for events focused on innovation on multiple occasions. UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS, FOX Business Network, BusinessWeek, WomenEntrepreneur, Oprah.com, NBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and CNNMoney.com.
Bartlomiej Skorupa is the co-founder and CEO of Groundwork Opportunities (GO), a nonprofit that empowers community leaders through thriving networks of support. Bartlomiej has ten years working experience in strategy, management, and IT consulting, having worked for both Accenture and Slalom Consulting. Working in various industries, Bartlomiej held numerous management positions in over a dozen Fortune 500 companies implementing efficient business practices in the USA and Europe. After a medical emergency that literally changed his vision on life, Bartlomiej has spent the past 6 years dedicating himself to ending extreme poverty around the world by investing in groundbreaking ideas from local community leaders through Groundwork Opportunities (GO). When not working directly with tomorrow’s change-makers, Bartlomiej finds inspiration by simply reflecting on the glory of just being alive, right here, right now.
Katherine Woo is the Vice President of Product at Kiva.org, a nonprofit which popularized web-based microlending to entrepreneurs around the world. In this role, she oversees product management, design, and strategic planning. Prior to Kiva, Katherine co-founded a social dating startup, spent seven years in various product and strategy roles at eBay and PayPal, and was an Associate at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman).
About Kiva
www.kiva.org
How Kiva Works: http://www.kiva.org/about/how/even-more
About Groundwork Opportunities (GO)
www.goworks.org
The GO 100% Model Defined: http://goworks.org/100percent/
The GO Story: http://vimeo.com/64430248
About Universal Giving
http://www.universalgiving.org
Living and Giving: Pamelahawley.wordpress.com
Eimhin, thank you for your comment. It’s certainly growing in our industry! More educated people in finance, CSR, philanthropy are being called to lead organizations with strategy and not just the heart. Same goes in working with foundation and corporate dollars.
Sincerely, Pamela
Founder and CEO
UniversalGiving
http://www.universalgiving.org
LivingandGivingBlog
http://pamelahawley.wordpress.com
Please let us know what you’d like to hear! We are doing a series and scaling this out. We always want to be responsive and look forward to hearing from you!
Warmly, Pamela
Founder and CEO
UniversalGiving
http://www.universalgiving.org
Living and Giving Blog
http://pamelahawley.wordpress.com
(wonders if CSR plus this kind of thing means there are jobs for well informed people to give away other peoples money;)