Giving circles have become a recognized philanthropic force as their numbers have rapidly increased over the past decade. A giving circle is a group of people (friends or like-minded individuals) of all economic backgrounds who pool their money and resources and decide together where to donate.
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Author Archives: Mike O'Mahoney
Giving circles here to stay. Are you in the Game?
07/07/2009 – 7:05 pm
Shorten An URL, Help A Charity
06/15/2009 – 2:48 am
Social media users are increasingly utilizing services that shrink long website addresses. The trend is being spurred on by microblogging platforms that limit the length of postings, like Twitter and Jaiku. Joining the popular URL-shortening playing field is Good.ly, a website that compresses your link and sends proceeds to charity.
Give A Few Bob
05/29/2009 – 1:28 pm
UK comedian Bob Monkhouse, who died from prostate cancer in 2003, was brought back from the dead for the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation (with full support from his family). The film for the ‘Give A Few Bob’ campaign combined archival footage of Monkhouse, shots of a body double, and a sound-alike for the script and was centered around the microsite giveafewbob.org, where people could make donations.
