Nathan Freitas, Jacob Colker and Ben Rigby of the Extraordinaries at NetSquared 2009. The Bay Area-based Extraordinaires are among the social causes highlighted in the current issue of Time magazine in an article titled New Ways to Make a Difference. Time identified three new trends in doing good: Put your time to work 1The Extraordinaries: […]
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Harnessing the crowd for social good
From left, Jon Bischke of eduFire, Leila Chirayath Janah of SamaSource, Jacob Colker of The Extraordinaries and Robert Chatwani, Head of Global Citizenship, eBay. Last night was another one of those eye-popping events where large numbers of people turn out for an event to discuss how new technologies can be used to advance social change. […]
Buy on eBay to help your favorite cause
eBay Giving Works from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the first Awareness2Action gathering in San Francisco in August 2008 I heard about eBay’s Giving Works program, which has raised $150 million for charitable causes on eBay over its first five years. These folks rock! I swung down to eBay headquarters in San Jose a few […]