Category Archives: Non-profit

Epic Change - Building a Locally-Led School in Tanzania

By Greg Huntoon | May 31, 2009

Drop what you are doing right now, for about 3 minutes, and you can help build a technology lab for a locally-led primary school in Tanzania. All you have to do, is go to this website Ideablob, and vote for Epic Change in a $10k contest. If Epic Change is still at the top of [...]

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You Can’t Ever Have Too Much of a Good Thing

By Greg Huntoon | May 14, 2009

This should be subtitled: “Even when that good thing really, really pisses you off to begin with.” Yesterday was a bit of a rough day for me. Towards the end of the day, I had an email forwarded to me that a friend of a friend launched a project which is nearly a carbon copy [...]

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Changing Lives: What Are We Doing Today?

By Greg Huntoon | March 24, 2009

If there’s one thing that has become clear to me, it’s that the world can use as many people as possible linking arm in arm to fight against social and economic decay. Even though conferences like G8 and campaigns like the Bono-fronted RED campaign have helped raise much needed awareness, the recent global economic collapse [...]

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