Friday, January 09, 2009

OLPC Halves Staff And Contractors, Cuts Salaries -- PCs -- InformationWeek

OLPC Halves Staff And Contractors, Cuts Salaries -- PCs -- InformationWeek: "The nonprofit announced in a blog post Wednesday that it had to cut staff and contractors by 50% from each of its teams and reduce salaries for its remaining 32 employees."

Monday, January 05, 2009

WTOP: Fifth-grader gets early start on philanthropy

WTOP: Fifth-grader gets early start on philanthropy: "All kids can be heroes.

That's the premise of MaryMargaret O'Neill's website, Kidsareheroes.com.

Her father and site co-founder, Gabe O'Neill, explained the site's inception as a perfect storm of ideas coming together at once.

Crediting Virgin Records owner Richard Branson's social entrepreneurship, MaryMargaret's idea to create a website and Gabe's own software development expertise, Kidsareheroes.com was born in March."