DonorsChoose: Fulfilling the Promise of Micro-Philanthropy
By Peter Deitz • Posted on April 14, 2008
Check out this inspiring presentation by DonorsChoose founder Charles Best and CTO Oliver Hurst-Hiller. They presented at Google's Tech Talks in early March 2008.
Around minute 35 of the presentaiton, Oliver talks about the DonorsChoose open API and anticipates mashups that display the micro-philanthropy campaigns on DonorsChoose in new and innovative ways. I wonder if he had in mind my Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms.
I am meeting with Charles and Oliver this Friday. I'm excited to compare notes on the future of micro-philanthropy and peer-to-peer social change.
Here are the notes from Oliver:
* Overview and introductory remarks [00:22]
* Demos of website functionality [04:55]
- making a donation
- zooming in on classroom project details
- choosing a project
- impact statistics [11:25]
- thank-you packet
* How it works behind-the-scenes [15:25]
* “Business model” and marketing programs [21:00]
- Blogger Challenge and other Challenge applications
- gift certificates [31:55]
- project notification and syndication feeds
* Technology topics [37:05]
- handling big spikes in traffic
- support received from the tech community
* Closing remarks [41:50]
* Q&A [43:45]
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