Guest Thinkers — December 12, 2010

Awareness 2 Action

I attended a pretty awesome event last night thrown by one of our all-star advisors, Sundeep Ahuja. It was called awareness2action, and had about 50 attendees from some of the best non-profits and people in the related ecosystem. Amonst the companies represented and sharing best practices?

SocialVibe, Involver, eBay Giving Works and Cause-related Programs, Kiva, NetImpact, MokuGift, Room to Read, World of Good (an eBay community), Better World Books, CauseCast, Change.org and VCs from Greylock and DFJ.

Should you have been there? email me!

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