Topic: Haiti

Mobile Companies Open the Floodgates to Allow Text Message-Based Donations

Obopay and Benevity partner up to allow any registered charity to receive text message-based donations.READ»

Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?

The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»

• Built Strong: Measuring Livestrong's Revenue, Spending, Followers and Reach
• Meet Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman, the Most Savvy Health Care Leader in Social Media

U.K. Launches Innovation Fund for International Development and Aid

The announcement comes just after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announces its very own innovation ventures investment fund.READ»

Clinton to Tech Innovators and Entrepreneurs: "We Want You"

Feeling cooped up in that dingy old cube? Life seem a little meaningless? No worries. The State Department will be happy to send you to the far reaches of the planet to end violence, empower citizens, and bring peace and prosperity to the rest of the world.READ»

Oxfam and Nokia Partner for Mobile Donations App

Could a mobile app save the NGO world from a desperate reliance on endless, hands-on fundraising?READ»

Meet Five Amazing Millennials Who Have Already Changed the World

From the stage to Kenya’s slums, the 2010 Do Something award winners are changing our world.READ»

• Do Something: In Defense of Millennials

CGI: Omidyar Network, A Philanthropy That Invests in For-Profits Too

Old school charity and "philanthropy" once referred exclusively to financial contributions to nonprofits. Today, Omidyar Network (ON) takes a more innovative and inclusive approach, called "flexible capital." As a philanthropic ...READ»

Mercy Corps Mobile Money Turns Phones Into Wallets for 100,000-Plus Haitians

Mercy Corps partners with Trilogy to deliver financial services to Haiti's unbanked.READ»

How Much Would You Pay for a Celebrity Retweet?

For the rest of the week, eBay is hosting charity auction TwitChange, the first ever celebrity tweet auction, which is raising money for Haiti. But how much influence will it really spread?READ»

Penn State's Geospatial Revolution Project: Where Are We, and How Did We Get Here?

Penn State University's new project isn't exactly existential, but it does answer some of life's big questions: Where are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Turns out all those answers can be answered through GPS.READ»

Branded Virtual Goods and What Good They Can Do

Brands hope to use virtual goods to soak up any discretionary spending especially among the Web-savvy under-40 crowd. Analysts agree that the virtual goods market will be worth over $2 billion this year. This is just one way that brands are responding to a very real challenge--how to make themselves relevant, sharable, and likable within the social ecosystem.READ»

Five Innovators Heading to CGI: An NGO Cementing Change

Next week is the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the world's leading matchmaking event for social innovators and investors. CGI meeting objective: Bring together prospective partners to solve the world's biggest problems. This week, I'll feature one innovator each day. Here's the first.READ»

Managing Data in the Pakistan Flood Crisis

When numbers get washed away, everything falls apart.READ»

Mercy Corps Deploys Water Treatment Systems to Pakistan With Help of High-Tech Firm, ITT

Only a few are deployed, but thousands are helped.READ»

How Social Gaming Uses Virtual Giving to Get Real Results

One of the most encouraging applications of social gaming is the ability to leverage its popularity to generate contributions to causes and humanitarian crises. We saw this when Zynga created limited edition items in FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars, and Zynga Poker with proceeds going to victims of the Haiti earthquake.READ»

iFive: Gulf Shrimping, Israeli Army Facebook Abuse, Stop to Gay Weddings, Wyclef Jean's Haiti Hiccup, Blair's $7M Donation

Innovation? MISTER Innovation to you.READ»

Haitian Artisans Hotify Celebrities' Homes With Their Original Designs

Forget Wyclef. Brandaid is helping the Haitian economy by giving it its own star power.READ»

iFive: Bankers Party, Apple in China, Net Neutrality, BlackBerry Nosiness, Wyclef in Haiti

iFive: The FCC runs, while Wyclef lands. That and other juicy tidbits.READ»

Wyclef Jean Leaves His Own NGO to Prep for Haitian Prez Run

Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has acknowledged officially that he'll run for president of Haiti, and he's leaving Yele Haiti, the NGO he created in 2005.READ»

Wyclef? Why Not?

Sure, he's suspected of misappropriating funds from his own NGO (and America's IRS), but Wyclef Jean could be just the kind of marketing maniac Haiti needs.READ»

While Kenya Votes, Ushahidi Does Its Part

Fast Company catches up with Erik Hersman, the man behind the groundbreaking crowdsourcing tool, Ushahidi, as Kenya holds its constitutional referendum.READ»

Student Starts First Tuition-free School in Africa’s Largest Slum

DoSomething award winner Jessica Posner brings education to Kibera.READ»

DoSomething Winner Returns to Save His Stricken Hometown

After he graduated, development major Mark Rembert applied for the Peace Corps, thinking he could help developing countries strengthen their communities. But when his hometown's largest employer shut its doors, Rembert found that rural Ohio needed him most.READ»

Peace Dividend Trust Finds New Business Frontiers ... in Afghanistan

WikiLeaks be damned, former Afghanistan diplomat Scott Gilmore cuts out middle men in international aid and brings global trade to a country often considered war-torn.READ»

Med Student Pioneers “Political Medicine” in Rural Haiti

DoSomething, headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized five young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this ...READ»