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In this presentation to the Craigslist Foundation’s Nonprofit Boot Camp, social entrepreneur Pamela Hawley describes her trials and successes in creating UniversalGiving, an organization that matches volunteers and donors with international NGOs. Hawley discusses her philosophy for approaching potential funding sources, and outlines activities that anyone starting a social entrepreneurial project must undertake. These include conducting due diligence, creating an advisory board, and obtaining advance funding. Hawley concludes by presenting the UniveralGiving website, and describes how typical projects are managed. She identifies some of the organization’s key clients and major accomplishments.
Pamela Hawley is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving (UG), a social entrepreneurship nonprofit that matches volunteers and donors with quality international NGOs. In 1996, she co-founded VolunteerMatch, which has matched more than two million volunteers with nonprofits nationwide. A few years later, she launched VolunteerMatch Corporate, a customized version for employee volunteer programs. Hawley has worked and volunteered abroad doing microfinance in remote villages of India, crisis relief work in the 2000 El Salvador earthquake, digital divide training in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, and sustainable farming in Guatemala. She has a political science degree from Duke University, and a master’s in scholarship in international/communications from The Annenberg School of Communications at USC.
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