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Pamela Hawley is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving™ (UniversalGiving.org). UniversalGiving™ (UG) is an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give and volunteer with vetted, quality opportunities all over the world. Visitors simply choose a region (such as Africa) and an issue (such as education or the environment) and receive a list of quality ways to give and volunteer. All partner NGOs are vetted through UniversalGiving's trademarked, proprietary Quality Model.™ 100% of each donation goes directly to the cause. Pamela is a recipient of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize for public service), a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and a Colburn S. Wilbur Fellow through the Institute for Global Ethics. She was recently chosen as a Fast Company Expert Blogger on CSR. She has been invited to exclusive events at the White House on two occasions, in 2010 and 2012. UniversalGiving™ has been profiled on CBS News, Fox Business Network, BusinessWeek, WomanEntrepreneur, Oprah.com, NBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Financial Times, CNNMoney.com and Change.org. UniversalGiving’s vision is to "Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering are a Natural Part of Everyday Life."™ Pamela’s global experience includes volunteering in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2000 El Salvador earthquake; sustainable farming in Guatemala; digital divide training in Cambodia; and indigenous community preservation in Ecuador. Ms. Hawley has a political science degree cum laudé at Duke University and a Masters on scholarship at the Annenberg School of Communications, USC, in International Communications. Prior to UniversalGiving, Pamela was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch. She speaks on a number of topics including global philanthropy and volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and leadership. She has spoken at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and USC.
Pamela Hawley
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UniversalGiving
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UniversalGiving® is an award-winning nonprofit allowing people to donate and volunteer with top performing, vetted organizations all over the world. 100% goes direct to the cause. All organizations are vetted with a proprietary Quality Model™. UniversalGiving has been featured on the homepage of Bloomberg, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. We've won the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize in Community Service) and have been invited to three Social Innovation events at the White House. CEO Pamela Hawley was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and is an Expert Blogger for Fast Company and CSRwire. UniversalGiving has been featured three times on Great Nonprofits’ annual Top Nonprofits lists, as well as Huffington Post's list of best volunteering matching websites. We encourage you to Give Your 100%™. UniversalGiving Corporate helps manage global Corporate Social Responsibility for companies, including the strategy, operations and NGO Vetting. Our goal is to help companies scale their Philanthropy and Volunteer programs, both locally and all over the world. We customize our services for clients, emphasizing high levels of innovation and client service. Key clients include Cisco, Gap, BHP Billiton, and RSF Social Finance. Our Vision is to “Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering Are a Natural Part of Everyday Life.”®