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Philanthropy

Philanthropy 2.0: A Video Q&A

By Peter Deitz

Some key online philanthropy sites, and tips for foundations looking to push the envelope.

Kim Feinberg - Self-Sufficiency Through Education

AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.

Natalie Portman - Eradicating Poverty Through Microfinance

One of the biggest problems that low-income people around the world face is the lack of access to capital that might otherwise help them rise out of poverty. Invited to Stanford, actress Natalie Portman turns the spotlight on her work to promote FINCA's International Village Banking Campaign, aiming to bring financial services to one million of the world's lowest-income families through 100,000 Village Banks by 2010.

Social Innovations

Root Causes vs. Facebook Causes

By Peter Deitz 15

Few social action platforms are currently leveraging the self-organizing potential of social media to address the root causes that make online social activism necessary in the first place.