Sharing Foundation Wins Network for Good Charity Badge/Yahoo Competition!!! | BlogHer

Beth Kanter discusses Sharing foundations Charity Badge win.

Sharing Foundation Wins Network for Good Charity Badge/Yahoo Competition!!! | BlogHer: "Sharing Foundation Wins Network for Good Charity Badge/Yahoo Competition!!!
By Beth Kanter, 7:20 pm, Tue 2 Jan 2007

This New Year's Eve I didn't watch the ball drop on Times Square because I was glued to my laptop helping my favorite cause, the Sharing Foundation, raise almost $100,000 via my blog!

Three weeks ago, using what I learned from my first personal fundraising campaign, I launched a second campaign to raise money for the Sharing Foundation education programs using the Network For Good Charity Badge and entering the Yahoo! For Good competition which would double the amount raised by the winner."

Tags: NPTech, NPOnlineGiving

Cheap laptops for Third World schoolchildren - CNN.com

Cheap laptops for Third World schoolchildren - CNN.com: "CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) -- Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.

For most of these children the XO machine, as it's called, likely will be the first computer they've ever used. Because the students have no expectations for what PCs should be like, the laptop's creators started from scratch in designing a user interface they figured would be intuitive for children."