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sstadum
- Jun 22, 2007
- 4 min
Crowdfunding is For the Rest of Us
"Crowdfunding describes the collective cooperation, attention, and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via...
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sstadum
- Jun 16, 2007
- 5 min
How We Set Up a Non-Profit by the Seat of Our Pants
0. I wrote 0 business plans for it. The plan is simple: Get a site launched in a few months, see if people like it, and sell ads and...
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sstadum
- Jun 14, 2007
- 1 min
Microlending and Kiva, the theory behind it
Kiva takes the micro-lending idea and combines it with the democratizing power of the internet to allow you (or me, or the guy reading...
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sstadum
- Jun 2, 2007
- 1 min
Peter Moore Kidnapped in Iraq
he last i heard was that the mehdi army claiming to have him for negotions...but they still havent stated what they wanted or shown any...
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sstadum
- May 23, 2007
- 1 min
Peace Corps Organizes Workshop for Essequibo Students
The United States Peace Corps over the last two days hosted 20 Essequibo students in Georgetown for a workshop on "Career Building...
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sstadum
- May 19, 2007
- 3 min
Peace Corps Volunteers Honored for Work with Local Group
United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. David Robinson, has lauded the work of the rural-based Nirvana Humanitarian Society (NHS) located...
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sstadum
- Apr 28, 2007
- 2 min
Building Friendships One Person at a Time
Ask nearly all Peace Corps Volunteers to describe their experience, and they'll undoubtedly share stories about the local people they met...
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sstadum
- Apr 26, 2007
- 2 min
Looking South
A pontoon ferry putters on demand across the Takutu river not far from the small border towns of Lethem in Guyana and Bomfim in Brazil....
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sstadum
- Apr 17, 2007
- 1 min
Andrew Brandou’s Jonestown paintings
Andrew Brandou has a new show of paintings opening tomorrow night (4/14/07) at the Corey Helford gallery in Culver City, CA. The...
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sstadum
- Apr 14, 2007
- 3 min
Peace Corps Volunteer Missing
The Philippine police and military are searching for a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer missing for nearly a week in a mountainous northern...
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sstadum
- Apr 4, 2007
- 1 min
Doctors Without Borders
9:00 AM: Amina, 15 years old, is waiting patiently among hundreds of people. She proceeds for a few meters but she is stopped by one of...
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sstadum
- Mar 16, 2007
- 1 min
Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act
In some ways many of the sections of this legislation look like they came right out of our VAC minutes. This has the power to make a huge...
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sstadum
- Mar 5, 2007
- 1 min
Welcome to FROG!
Friends & RPCVs of Guyana is a non-profit, service based organization dedicated to supporting education, health, social, economic, and...
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sstadum
- Mar 2, 2007
- 1 min
More Peace Corps volunteers expected for Guyana
The United States Peace Corps said another 33 community health and education volunteers will arrive in the country by May 31.According to...
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sstadum
- Mar 1, 2007
- 1 min
Introducing Friends & RPCVs of Guyana
Friends & RPCVs of Guyana There are a handful of us spread out across two continents working together to frame this organization into...
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