EnglishEvery year companies and organisations help spread the Blog Action Day message further than it would otherwise be possible. In 2008, we’d like to thank these 80+ great organisations for helping make Blog Action Day possible:
My.Opera is the community portal of the popular Opera browser. With over 1.6 million members, My.Opera’s support in both 2007 and 2008 has been a major factor in Blog Action Day’s success.
Bloggers from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK) are supporting Blog Action Day 2008.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is the world’s largest civil society movement calling for an end to poverty and inequality. GCAP’s whiteband blog will be participating this year, and Blog Action Day will be promoting GCAP coordinated online and offline action to bloggers as an action they can take.
Envato is a startup based in Sydney, Australia that provides communities and services for creatives. Each year, Envato provides all marketing, development and administrative costs for Blog Action Day.
BlogTV Inc. is a content licensing company that works with media convergence, with content products for TV, Internet, mobile phones, press media and other formats. BlogTV Inc. already is the biggest iberian-american blogs network following the PGC (professional generated content), and also acts through local networks like BlogTVargentina.com.ar (Argentina), BlogTV.com.br (Brazil), BlogTVchile.cl (Chile), BlogTVespana.es (Spain), BlogTV.com.mx (Mexico) and BlogTV.com.pt (Portugal). Since its inception in 2007, BlogTV Inc. has been involved in promoting and supporting Blog Action Day through its network, both online and in other media.
Mokono own and operate several large blog portals, including Blog.co.uk, Blog.fr, Blog.de and in 2007 and 2008 support Blog Action Day by promoting the day to their blogging communities.
Change.org is a social network dedicated to empowering and enabling people to connect, discuss, donate and make changes for the betterment of the world. Change.org is behind the Global Fund fundraising campaign for Blog Action Day in 2008, via their website.
AlternativeChannel is an independent television-over-internet news channel webcasting high quality documentaries and videos created by citizens, NGOs, non-profit organizations, independant medias or companies involved in social or environmental causes. In 2008, AlternativeChannel is helping publicize and participating in Blog Action Day.
Mercy Corps is a proud recipient of the 2008 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award.
Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations.
Supported by headquarters in North America and Europe, the agency’s global programs employ 3,500 staff worldwide and reach more than 16.4 million people in more than 35 countries. Over the past five years, more than 89 percent of the agency’s resources have been allocated directly to programs that help people in need. For more information, visit http://www.mercycorps.org.
Interested in attending Mercy Corps events? Check out http://www.mercycorps.org/getinvolved/events to see if there is an event in your area. If you are organizing an event, let me know so it can be posted.
The American Institute of Philanthropy, a leading charity watchdog agency, awarded Mercy Corps an “A” for financial efficiency in their May 2008 rating guide.
The Global Citizen Corps is a national movement of young people who think and act globally, have the passion to build a better world, and are committed to ending global poverty.
The Global Citizen Corps believes that Awareness + Action = Impact so we get informed about global poverty issues and learn how to take action. There are two ways to get involved:
Global Citizen Corps Members use http://www.globalcitizencorps.org to learn more about global poverty, exchange ideas, connect with field workers and anti-poverty experts, discover new ways to take action, and ultimately build a powerful movement for change.
Global Citizen Corps Leaders join a year-long program and organize Global Action Days in their schools and communities around the issues of HIV/AIDS, hunger, climate change, and access to education. Using NetAid and Mercy Corps’ tools, training, and resources, leaders carry out these Global Action Days to educate and inspire their classmates, speak out in the media, raise money, and lobby elected officials.
The Action Center to End World Hunger uses hunger as an organizing symbol of poverty, helping to explain and illustrate the challenges that lay behind it, such as poor agricultural practices, inefficient markets, weak health and education services, environmental degradation, conflict, and lack of access to clean water. By identifying and highlighting these underlying issues, the Action Center seeks to generate the public will necessary to end hunger in our lifetimes.
The Center is a cornerstone of Mercy Corps’ Global Engagement Initiative, which seeks to radically alter the way people think about the world and their role within it. With almost 30 years of experience working in the world’s toughest places, Mercy Corps has come to realize that without a well-informed, mobilized constituency in the developed world, there is a fundamental limit to the success we will have in pursuing our mission of alleviating suffering, poverty and oppression. The solutions to the most complex global challenges require partnership between the people and governments of the world’s economically powerful nations, as well as those of the countries where these challenges are most deeply felt.
Bread.org
Bread for the World has been working to eradicate hunger and poverty for 35 years. Our resources are among the most trusted in the anti-poverty field. In particular, the Bread for the World Institute is the premier analysis institution which provides clear, concise, and poignant research aimed at hunger and poverty solutions, both US and abroad.
Please list our site as a resource. Catholic Charities USA launched a Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America, the goal of which is to cut poverty in half by the year 2020. Our website is www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/poverty
http://www.charitynavigator.org
Caring for Kaela
Mercy Corps is a proud recipient of the 2008 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award.
Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations. Supported by headquarters in North America and Europe, the agency’s global programs employ 3,500 staff worldwide and reach more than 16.4 million people in more than 35 countries. Over the past five years, more than 89 percent of the agency’s resources have been allocated directly to programs that help people in need. For more information, visit www.mercycorps.org.
Interested in attending Mercy Corps events? Check out http://www.mercycorps.org/getinvolved/events to see if there is an event in your area.
www.fonkoze.org
tunearticles.com
- WorldConcern.org
- http://www.firstgiving.com/
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
www.heartlandalliance.org
www.homeless.org.uk
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www.freedomfromhunger.org and our blog is at http://www.freedomfromhunger.org/blog/ .
- Carolina For Kibera (CFK - http://cfk.unc.edu/
- http://www.aidemocracy.org/2DollarDay.php
- http://www.mercycorps.org/
- http://www.bnaibrith.org/
- http://www.homeless.org.uk/
- http://www.charitynavigator.org/
- http://www.savingtheworld.net/
- Direct Aid: ‘We are a non-profit organization in Kuwait that aids and helps people in Africa. We have many activities in Africa and in Blog Action Day. Our educational campaign website is: http://edu.direct-aid.org and our official website is http://www.direct-aid.org (english version is coming soon!)’