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The project summary in Elance
I just outsourced my first job via Elance- basically to find somebody to splice and code the Locra site from a basic Photoshop file to CSS-compliant webpages. As a team of mostly busy undergraduates, working on Locra means a trade off with either academics, activities, or sleep- and it unsurprisingly things [...]

Was talking to a good friend of mine who had recently returned to Stanford from a 1 year hiatus. One year ago, he had taken a leave of absence to travel and work in another part of the world, getting the opportunity to see life from the villages to the urban city. This time, when [...]

Visited WiserEarth’s Sausalito office with Keshav today, to pitch Locra to them and see how we could use WiserEarth’s current resources. If you haven’t heard of WiserEarth, they seek to connect every and anyone who is part of the movement towards sustainability and making the world a better place. In short, somewhat like a social [...]

Stumbled upon Give.sg today, and got really excited. Founded by a group of NUS students and based in a NUS Business incubator, their work “supports charity and fundraising efforts across Singapore”. My guess is that it is a Kiva approach to charity in Singapore, where charities put up requests for donations online, and Give.sg provides [...]

The past few weeks have been hectic weeks for the Locra.org team. We’re beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel as the various pieces start to come together, and things are beginning to pick up momentum. The Locra.org welcome site went online last weekend, and since has been receiving quite a few [...]

Have begun reading my Google Reader in earnest nowadays- I subscribe to feeds mainly in 6 areas. News (General), News (Singapore), Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, Economics, and “Random Cool Stuff”. I’ll post up all my feeds someday.
Meanwhile have been quite saddened to hear the unfolding of events at Ren Ci Hospital, and AWARE. Formerly two very [...]

Just met up with Casey and a little “focus group” of students from China (and one Chinese American) to brainstorm ideas for Wokai. We brainstormed a few ideas for marketing/fund raising- from allowing people to donate from their mobile phones, to gift certificates and how that would change things. After the meeting I’m more optimistic [...]

Visited Google.org and Virgance during the 1 week as well- two “technology companies” doing good. Was extremely taken by their work and their structure- they represent a departure from the usual social change models we are used to. Innovation meets social change, and they are the product.
Google.org would better be named philanthropy@google.com, and google donates [...]

Visited 826 Valencia and Upwardly Global over the break as well, two social organizations whose ideas can be transferred back to Singapore.
826 Valencia was started in 2002, and is essentially a nonprofit tuition centre cum playground, even though its stated mission is to “support students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills, and to [...]

Visited Wokai.org and talked to its founder, Casey over Spring break to get to know about these two organizations involved in China. Wokai.org is a “Kiva clone” which specializes in China;
Wokai.org is essentially a Kiva for China, which exists due to China’s strict regulations and laws which prevent Kiva from operating. However there is one [...]