It's Getting Easier to Support People and Projects We Care About. So Let's Do More!: January 2007

It's Getting Easier to Support People and Projects We Care About. So Let's Do More!

Hi! My name is Tony Gambino. I'm a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV). I taught school from 1979-1982 in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've worked on international issues pretty much ever since. I think there needs to be a lot more support to help poor people overseas - and that those of us who are part of the Peace Corps community should help lead this. Talking about how we can do that is the purpose of this blog.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!
2 RPCV Organizations Get an Additional $5,000

Hats off - chapeau - to Friends of Burkina Faso and the High Atlas Foundation for doing the work it took to meet the GlobalGiving challenge and earn an extra $5,000 for their worthy projects. These things don't just magically happen. I know that both organizations reached out and pushed hard to get these funds.

That's what organized, committed people can do, and it is both a great end to 2006 and a challenge to keep moving forward in 2007.

I expect there will be some exciting announcements from GlobalGiving in the near future about where we go from here ... Stay tuned!

For lots of good information on GlobalGiving and how these ideas germinate, see Dennis Whittle's blog.

Labels: charity, foreign aid, giving

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Name: Tony

Hi! My name is Tony Gambino. I'm a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV). I taught school for 3 years in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've worked on international issues since, with NGOs, USAID, the Department of State, and the Congress along the way. I think there needs to be a lot more support led by those of us who are RPCVs to help poor people overseas. Talking about that is the purpose of this blog. The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is in a partnership with GlobalGiving to give RPCVs a way both to contribute to projects supported by other RPCVs and, over time, to post projects of their own. This is an incredibly exciting new -- and much easier -- way for many more of us to contribute directly to helping people help themselves in developing countries. By the way, the picture is of me in the Congo in July 2006, serving as an elections monitor. I was in eastern Congo, mainly based in Goma. This is a picture of me there, with Goma's volcano, Mount Nyiragongo, in the background. I went with the Carter Center to observe the first democratic elections in the Congo since the early 1960s.

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