The Explosion of Private Citizens Doing Public Good



Websites

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
www.gatesfoundation.org

Bush-Clinton Katrina Funda
www.bushclintonkatrinafund.org

The Carter Center
www.cartercenter.org

The Clinton Global Initiative
www.clilntonglobalinitiative.org

Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
www.clintonfoundation.org

Doctors Without Borders
www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Grameen Bank
www.grameen-info.org

The Green Belt Movement
www.greenbeltmovement.org

Greenpeace
www.peace.org

Habitat for Humanity
www.habitat.org

ONE Campaign
www.one.org

Opportunity International
www.opportunity.org

Opportunity International Australia
www.opportunity.org.au

Oxfam
www.oxfamamerica.org

Red Cross
www.redcross.org

The Self Employed Women’s Association (India)
www.sewa.org

ShoreBank Corporation
www.shorebankcorp.com

United Nations
www.un.org

The United Way
www.national.unitedway.org

The William J. Clinton Foundation
www.clintonfoundation.org

The World Wildlife Fund
www.worldwildlife.org

Books

  • Dowla, Asif, and Dipal Barua. The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story. Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2006.
  • Fine, Allison H. Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
  • Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
  • Rischard, J. F. High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
  • Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. New York: Everymans Library, 1994.
  • Yunus, Muhammad. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs, 1999.



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