Donors Choose
Donorschoose.org is a domestic charity that allows people to fund projects designed by US public school teachers. It is a great initiative, started by teachers but expanded with funding from several successful internet entrepreneurs, and offers donors a lot of information before they give as well as information on project implemention. The format is a lot like Sean Stannard Stockton suggested was the future of philanthropy.
The site’s directors recently gave what looks like it was a very poorly attended presentation at Google Tech Talks. It is almost an hour long, but does a great job explaining how it all works.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:16 am
It is always good to hear,read and write about these sweet words such as philonthropy, fraternity, humanism and and humanitarianism. But unfortunately to transmitt the essence of these worlds into real practice, has been the most emerging challenge of our present age. The civilized governments and the civilized world have been talking much about these things but as the tragedy has been that at the altar of their own vested interests, they do not practically perform those policies that may truly infuse the spirit of humanity- an ages awaited global world order.