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...invasion of privacy, and offering the rest of us a valuable lesson: your mobile phone is more vulnerable than you ever realized. "What you have in your hand is a small, powerful computer connected to a public network," says Aloysius Cheang of the Singapore-based information-security nonprofit SIG^2. The latest generation of phones offer e-mail and Internet access, which create new avenues for hackers or viruses to infiltrate...
...ninth-floor offices of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in developing countries build businesses, overlook Trinity Church in New York City's Financial District. Consider it a case of Wall Street crossing Hope Road. "It's a good metaphor," says Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen's founder. Some call it venture philanthropy, but Novogratz prefers the phrase "private equity for the poor." What that means is that a small company in India gets a $185,000 loan to make and sell affordable water filters. And that a Pakistani firm receives more than $260,000 in grants and loans...
...narcissistic reaction. "I thought, Someone has invented something just for me," recalls Dar, founder of Action Without Borders. The selfishness, however, was in service only to the most charitable of pursuits. The Israeli-born Dar, 44, had been looking for a way to connect nonprofit organizations from around the globe to volunteers eager to donate their time. "I was obsessed with the notion that you have a world rife with problems," says Dar, "but you also have ideas and resources and people with free time and good intentions, and there had to be a way to bring these things together...
Action Without Borders launched its website, idealist.org in 1996. Today 45,000 nonprofit and charitable organizations worldwide are registered on the site, which is translated into English, French and Spanish. It gets 35,000 visitors a day, primarily from young volunteers eager to go anywhere from Mississippi to Uganda. The group also organizes conferences and nonprofit-career workshops. The site is free, and users can browse opportunities by location or mission. Dar says any organization can register, with a few exceptions: "No violence, no illegal action, no rules against people based on who they are. In short, no hate...
This quiet, stunningly beautiful little gem of a movie, a 2004 Sundance Film Festival selection, was screened at Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Wednesday, Feb. 16. The screening was hosted by the Cambridge-based nonprofit organization Cultural Survival as part of the group’s International Bridge Builders Conference. The group sponsors a monthly film series that seeks to promote awareness of the indigenous experience by introducing the Harvard community to foreign-made movies...