Category: Charity

• Tech Pays

  

  Don’t believe Tech Pays really well? Well enough to be able to give small fortunes away to charity? “The Philanthropy 50” compiles the 50 most generous donors of last year. A total of 12 donors from the tech world contributed gifts representing 47% of the $9.8 billion donated in 2014. The chart below from Mashable tells it all!…

  BriAlys

  February 2015

  Career, Charity, STEM, Tech

  bayarea, charity, donations, Philanthropy, tech

• Chime in for Change

  

  Chime for Change, founded by Gucci, is asking women everywhere to speak up for change all over the world. The kind of change that benefits girls and women everywhere. “Education. Health. Justice. For every girl. Every woman. Everywhere. Because none of us can move forward if half of us are held back.” Pick a cause and donate…

  BriAlys

  October 2014

  Black is Beautiful, Charity, Education, Family, Girl Talk, Global, Health, Money, Read, School

  change, chimein, education, girls, health, justice, women

• Hack the Hood

  

  Planes. Bailouts. Budgets. Violence. When it comes to local news, I’ll pass. Add in cable and it’s even more of a fiasco – from one extreme (FOX News) to another (MSNBC). I resort to reading my daily blogs and resources like The Economist and National Public Radio (NPR). It’s the latter that caught my attention…

  BriAlys

  July 2014

  Business, Charity, Children, STEM, Tech

  children, computer, google, hack, nonprofit, stem, tech

• One For One Marketplace

  

  This past Sunday, my pastor mentioned a guy named Blake Mycoskie in his sermon. Blake  started a shoe company with a unique goal: for every pair of shoes purchased they would give a pair away. I wanted to know more, so I followed Commandment #3 and Googled Blake Mycoskie. Toms??! Blake Mycoskie founded Toms? Who knew!…

  BriAlys

  January 2014

  Charity, Shopping