Giving More Than Money

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For liveblogged transcripts of this talk, see the MIT Center for Civic Media blog.

This page references the open panel from the Awesome Connect event. For notes from the internal discussion session on helping fellows with more than money, see the page on grantee support.

Jeremy Liu

Jeremy Liu works on professional skill matching in the Bay Area, and previously ran the East Bay Asian Development Corporation.

Deanna Zandt

Deanna is interested in the problem of handling volunteer labor in nonprofit organizations. She is also interested in advocacy and evangelism by the general public (for example, the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood controversy).

Arlene Ducao

Arlene loves maps, and focuses on drawing connections between mapping and volunteerism. She is currently working on making infrared satellite imagery more accessible during disasters.

Emilie Dubois

Emilie is a PhD student at Boston College studying collaborative consumption, with a specific focus on time banking. She is interested in questions of social capital and peer-to-peer bartering.

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