The Sacramento Water For People Committee invites you to celebrate World Water Day 2010. This year’s official WWD theme, water quality, brings into focus the need for clean, well-managed water supplies worldwide. 

About the Event

The Keynote Speaker will be the inspirational CEO of Water For People, Ned Breslin, who will be coming from Denver, CO to share stories of his experiences with several NGOs in the water and sanitation sector since the 1980s. Live music will be played at the event by the popular San Francisco-based Brazilian soul band, Boca do Rio!The event also includes:

The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations.  The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.  But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do.  There are different rules and new opportunities with online fundraising and every platform or application comes

Happy Birthday!

Today we are throwing an online surprise birthday party for Beth Kanter, and you’re invited!

There's just one week before TweetsGiving!  Next week, participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton (@MamaLucy), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd's Junior.

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Avi Kaplan, the Community and Events Director at Epic Change, to discuss the upcoming TweetsGiving campaign and events.  Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year's TweetsGiving proceeds.

Find out more in the interview below!

Come November 26 - 27, 2009 in the city of Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, the African Youth Development Foundation will roll out the drums in celebration of its 10 long years of changing the lives of young people, children and women in Nigeria and Africa at large!

The event is scheduled to hold between November 26 - 27, 2009 at the Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria and Her Excellency, Lady Ada Okwuonu, the Deputy Governor of Imo State, is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour.

At the event, the Board of Trustees, Management staff and all members of AFRYDEF will have the honour to present their Special International Awards to distinguished philanthropists and members of the Nigerian and African society.

We wish to appeal that you kindly accept to sponsor a child for the African Youth Development Foundation (AFRYDEF).

In Africa, many families live under the poverty line of USD 1 per day and therefore cannot afford to feed their children. Think of it, how would these poor families then be able to pay for their children’s medical needs as well as provide them with the basic education needed to empower them for life?  

These uneducated and unhealthy children therefore grow up into adulthood, get married early and begin to make their own large families (of at least ten children each) like their parents due to idleness and frustration.

The cycle of poverty continues . . !

I recently connected with Adam Archer, the CEO of GamesThatGive, about the new platform, their goals, and more. Prior to co-founding GamesThatGive, Adam was a senior software engineer at Apple, working on many aspects of Mac OS X’s integration at its Cupertino headquarters. Adam is also an experienced organic farmer and has backpacked extensively around the world.He lives in San Francisco, CA.

Check out the interview below!

GamesThatGive 

Hi everyone, I'd like to introduce a new way to have fun and raise money for chairity. GamesThatGive (http://www.gamesthatgive.net) is a website offering some of your favorite online games, such as Solitaire and Bubble Burst, that has partnered with sponsors and select charities to allow people to play free games to raise money for charity. How is this possible?