[KITlist-Tech] From Sue: Can you each help special non-profits get matching funds?

 

Hello Everyone,

I'm very careful about what I send out to our community of 71,000 great people. 

I met today with Laura Vais, a dear friend and former SGIer (I started the KIT List with my SGI friends initially!). Laura left the corporate world to make a difference in the non-profit arena with the Skoll Foundation, which helps non-profits around the world. 

Laura told me about their fundraising Challenge (which ends Nov. 22!) where the Skoll Foundation will provide $1 million dollars to their portfolio of worthy (and vetted!) non-profits if they are able to raise $2 million among them through crowd sourcing. 

To donate, just go to the site and help a non-profit in an area the means something to you:

http://www.crowdrise.com/skollSEChallenge

I've been amazed and touched by the generosity in our community. 

I thought that if I shared this with you all, we could really help get these non-profits to their goal -- and win the $1 million bonus funding from Skoll. 

Below is Laura's note, and if you could find it in your heart to give even $10 to help, we can harness the power of 71,000 friends helping friends to make a REAL difference for others. 

Thank you so much! And please pass this on to friends and family. 

Warmly,

Sue

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Dear KIT List friends,

I need your help and if everyone who reads this KIT List takes one very small action, you have the power to make a huge difference. 

After years of working in high-tech and biotech (including SGI from 1995-2000), I had the privilege of landing a job at the Skoll Foundation—the private foundation of Jeff Skoll, first president at eBay.

The Skoll Foundation, in partnership with The Huffington Post, has launched the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge to provide some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs with an innovative platform to raise funds. 

The Challenge has the potential to leverage up to $1 million in dedicated prize money and matching funds and this is where we need your help!

The Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge began at the end of September and ends on November 22. 

My goal is to help this community of extraordinary leaders and catalysts for change to reach a goal of $2M funds raised so they can maximize Skoll's matching funds. 

Currently we are just over $1M and with 2 ½ weeks to go you can help us get there!

Sue tells me there are 71K subscribers. If everyone went to this site and picked out an organization to support and gave $10 (or more!), we would hit our goal! 

Please take 10 minutes and have a look—and I encourage you to scroll to the bottom. Some of the organizations who are having difficulty raising funds are in regions in the developing world where people don't have credit cards and cannot donate via this platform.

Organizations participating in the Challenge are recipients of the "Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship" and represent some of the most successful entrepreneurial organizations in the world. 

Working on the frontlines, social entrepreneurs fight disease, poverty, and injustice with their innovative approaches, proving that health care, education, and basic needs can be delivered efficiently and equitably, that sustainability trumps depletion, and that large-scale impact is possible.

With much gratitude,

Laura Vais

Skoll Foundation 

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