Tag Archives: charity

A success tempered with hard lessons. ATTN: PayPal

Early this week, we were finally able to fulfil our obligations to those who donated via PhilippineAid.com and, more importantly, to the victims of Typhoons Ketsana and Parma–at least as far as remitting the funds we have collected via our PayPal account to the Philippine National Red Cross would go. To date, PhilippineAid.com has managed [...]

The Philippines Needs YOUR Help

At the time of writing, 73 people have died and over 300,000 people have been displaced by Tropical Storm Ketsana (local name “Ondoy”) that struck the Philippines with heavy, torrential rains on Saturday, September 26, 2009. (link) Waters rose to as much as 5 meters high in some areas and the Philippines, seeing the worst [...]

Pulling off my OWN #daniela: The..um…”MV Foundation”

Last week, David Armano VP of Experience Design for Critical Mass and one of of the few bloggers I really look up to, brought the case of Daniela, a mother of three kids, forth in his blog and his 8,600+ followers strong twitter network. Daniela’s family, at that time, was living in David’s house after [...]