Britain’s personal debt is increasing by £1 million every 4 minutes. Graduates who leave University have an average debt of £12,363. Are you in debt? Could you work with the homeless, sick and elderly? Then you could become debt free simply by doing some charity work.
It is a new and exciting scheme called Do Good […]

 
Do you have a great idea that would help others in need or a good cause? You really think it would help others and work but don’t want to run it as a business? Then you need a Non-Profits Tool Kit!:
1. Creating a Website
Obviously the first thing you’ll need when bringing your non-profit organization online […]

Neurosurgeon and entrepreneur James Doty, MD, was feeling generous when he agreed in 2000 to give a multimillion-dollar gift of stock to Stanford University School of Medicine, but he didn’t realize at the time that he would end up giving away his entire personal fortune.
Doty, who had planned to retire on his stock earnings and […]

 
Putting its money where its mouth is on social issues and the non-profit sector, GOOD magazine donates every penny raised from subscription fees to charity. That’s already helped founder Ben Goldhirsh do good by raising more than $380,000 in just three issues!
Ben Goldhirsh founded GOOD Magazine and Reason Pictures in 2004. Starting from the back […]

Im not a techie but if you are here is the breakdown of the $100 laptop - click here for the full details taken from BBC.

Professor Negroponte first proposed the laptop in 2002 and now hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should […]

The donation is thought to be the single most generous philanthropic commitment made by a Briton. The former owner of the Sports Division sports chain said it would take years to transfer all the cash, but that he was committed to doing it.
He had already committed £100m to his charitable foundation to fight inequality in […]

 
Deirdre Bounds (founder of i-to-i), Seb Bishop and Tony Callaghan have accepted a challenge for a Channel 4 series which is to be aired in September. There challenge was to to start a business in a Ugandan village – without running water or electricity – in just three weeks.
All three accepted and built a eco-hotel. where guests teach […]

 
What excellent news to wake up to this morning. I have been following the support for Alan’s release for some time now and signed his petition which had over 200,000 signatures. I can now remove my support link from my blog, if onyl i could do this with Madeleines …
Alan had been kept hostage for […]

 
I get very excited when i hear of a new online that helps a good cause and Wahblo is one of my best. Wahblo is the brain child of Mike Kepple a 24 year old entrepreneur from London. Wahblo is a social networking website where you and a group of friends or colleagues can all donate £1 […]