| THE 2009 WINNERS | SocialVibe | March18 Movement | Kiva.org | |
About SocialVibe:
SocialVibe is the leading social media utility connecting people with brands, empowering them to engage with sponsors and share branded content with their social graph to benefit a cause of their choice.
With SocialVibe, individuals make a positive, measurable impact for the charity of their choice just by completing branded activities. In just over a year’s time, the SocialVibe community has raised over $700,000 for over forty different non-profits.
SocialVibe recognizes that in social media, individuals hold the key to generating attention and influence that brands need. Through SocialVibe’s advertising model, brands have a unique way of interacting with individuals and accessing the content they create.
About March 18 Movement:
On March 18, blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi died in prison after being sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He had been charged with insulting religious leaders and spreading propaganda about the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Founded by Fred Petrossian and Mideast Youth, an interfaith youth network, the March 18 movement seeks to expand the world’s understanding of bloggers as de facto journalists, and extend the protections normally accorded to journalists to all those who share information and stories of repression and corruption online sometimes at risk of violence or other harm.
About Kiva:
Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. It is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
Through their online platform Kiva is currently averaging one loan every 11 seconds, consisting of 24,000 lenders lending $1.9 million this week to 5,000 entrepreneurs (with roughly 98% repayment).
In October of this year Kiva.org crossed the $100M threshold of micro-loans provided to deserving entrepreneurs, something they achieved in only four years.
| THE 2009 WINNERS | Amanda Rose | |||
About Amanda Rose and Twestival:
Amanda is the creator and mastermind behind Twestival, a global network of fundraising events, which has raised over $600,000 in less than one year for over 160 individual charities.
The first official Twestival Global took place February of this year and consited of over 200 cities participating in simultaneous events to raise over $250,000 for New York based non-profit Charity: water.
Twestival Local translates the same approach to single cities, raising money for local causes and specific fundraising targets.