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Is charity the new greed?

by Mathew on December 8, 2008 · View Comments

Anyone looking for a test case in how Twitter can be used to pull a community together — apart from little things like the Obama campaign, of course :-) — might want to consider a recent Toronto phenomenon called HoHoTo. A holiday party for Hogtown geeks and friends started as the germ of an idea [...]

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Help a Little Geek get a PC

by Mathew on May 29, 2008 · View Comments

Nicholas Negroponte has the One Laptop Per Child effort, which is trying to give children in developing countries a stripped-down laptop to help improve literacy and access to technology (and according to some isn’t doing all that well). Toronto has its own version: a non-profit effort called Little Geeks. It is a charitable foundation aimed [...]

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Give Kara a boost at DonorsChoose

by Mathew on October 5, 2007 · View Comments

My friend Kara Swisher at All Things D needs a hand, so I told her I would reach out to my vast blog readership — are you listening, Mom? — in an attempt to help out. You see, Kara wants to have lunch with Yahoo co-founder and now CEO Jerry Yang. Actually, that’s not the [...]

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Remaking the charity biz, Web 2.0-style

by Mathew on December 19, 2006 · View Comments

Austin Hill — a smart guy who founded the company that eventually became Radialpoint, and writes a venture-capital oriented blog called Billions With Zero Knowledge — has put together what he hopes will become a Web 2.0-style charity called Gifter, and launched it with a “million-dollar blog post.” For every wish that is submitted, $1 [...]

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