Pamela Hawley is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit organization whose vision is to "create a world where giving and volunteering is a natural part of everyday life." UniversalGiving is an award-winning, web-based nonprofit allowing people to give and volunteer with the top performing projects and volunteer opportunities across the world. UniversalGiving Corporate is a customized version for companies, which helps launch corporate global philanthropy and volunteer programs across the world for companies such as Cisco and BEA. UniversalGiving has been featured in CNNMoney.com, New York Times, L.A. Times. Ms. Hawley was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit which has matched more than two million volunteers with nonprofits. She launched VolunteerMatch Corporate (VMC), a customized version for corporations and their employee volunteer programs. More than 20 Fortune 500 companies became clients under her management (Charles Schwab, Coca-Cola, Dell, Duke Energy, Gap, Levi's, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nike and Verizon) which contributed to 43% of the organization's sustainability.

Ms. Hawley's community service began at the age of 12, and has extended into the international realm. She has worked and volunteered in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the El Salvador earthquake; digital divide training in the Killing Fields of Cambodia; and sustainable farming in the countryside of Guatemala. Her studies include a political science degree cum laude at Duke University and scholarship in international/communications masters at The Annenberg School of Communications, USC. She is now a guest lecturer at USC School of Business and has spoken at Business for Social Responsibility, Ethical Corporation, Forbes' Conference for Women and UCLA and Stanford Business Schools on numerous topics including Corporate Social Responsibility; International Strategy and Expansion; Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism; Social Entrepreneurship; and the Web. Ms. Hawley also loves improv, dancing and her two nephews and niece. (hide)

Prior to joining UniversalGiving, Ms. Arurkar built and scaled VolunteerMatch's national nonprofit partnership program. As the head of the nonprofit partnership program, Ms. Arurkar was responsible for creating, executing and managing all aspects of the business unit, including operations, business strategy, partner acquisition and management, and marketing. She acquired 15 national partnerships with national organizations including AARP, American Red Cross, Goodwill Industries International, National CASA, American Humane Association, America's Second Harvest, Save the Children, Hostelling International, and National 4-H Council. At VolunteerMatch, Ms. Arurkar was also director of community services. In this role her responsibilities included managing all aspects of client service to nonprofits and volunteers.

Ms. Arurkar has significant experience working and volunteering in the nonprofit sector for organizations including UNICEF, Camp Fire USA, Children Now, National Center for Education and the Economy, and Business for Social Responsibility. Ms. Arurkar has traveled throughout India and is passionate about improving the plight of children in developing countries. She holds a B.S. in Education from Cornell University and a Masters in Public Policy from the Goldman School at U.C. Berkeley. (hide)

Claudia Frere supports key corporate partnerships for UniversalGiving.  Ms. Frere's professional background involves over thirteen years of client relations and product management experience. Starting her career in the financial services industry, Ms. Frere worked with high-profile corporate accounts for trustee services and held positions at Barclays Global Investors and Merrill Lynch. She transformed her corporate management skills towards social impact and became VolunteerMatch's Group Director of Client Services where she launched and implemented over forty corporate social responsibility programs, managed a revenue portfolio and extended the service and product line operations.

Ms. Frere is dedicated to delivering tangible results for social impact and is committed to value creation that changes the world. She graduated Cum Laude in Politics from the University of San Francisco with an emphasis in Political Development Theory. Ms. Frere has an MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility from Nottingham University Business School ( Nottingham , UK ) where she was awarded a full scholarship by the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR). During her tenure, she helped launch the business school's Net Impact chapter where she led post-graduate members for environmental engagement programs, speaking events and community initiatives. (hide)

Tricia Collins is UniversalGiving's Director of Operations responsible for general operations management, human resources, and team productivity. Ms. Collins determines operational priorities for each business unit, aligning them with UniversalGiving's strategy and goals. She works to ensure a high level of efficiency in each business unit, and effectiveness in working with each team member to help them reach their full potential.  She works directly with the CEO to accomplish the objectives of UniversalGiving's Social Return on Investment report, which measures UniversalGiving's results and impact within our worldwide communities.

Ms. Collins possesses a diverse operations background within for-profit and non-profit organization, focusing on the use of technology to reach strategic business objectives. While working for NIKE, she served as the business analyst between key business units and the technology department, facilitating the successful launch of a global product creation intranet tool, the first of its kind for NIKE. While at the non-profit, Friends of the Children, she assisted the national replication of a successful Oregon-based at-risk child mentor program to new sites all over the United States. Along with her 8 years of operations experience, she has 5 years of front-line education experience teaching in impoverished inner-city and international environments. Her interest in social impact originated with teaching in inner-city Los Angeles for Teach For America, leading a study abroad program in Spain, and doing her own service project work in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. She graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with majors in Spanish and Psychology. Her post-graduate studies include a Diploma of Hispanic Studies from the Fundación Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain, and a Professional Clear Credential for education with bilingual emphasis. (hide)

Anne Sweeny plays a central role with UniversalGiving as Operations Manager. Ms. Sweeny is responsible for execution on operational priorities, ensuring UniversalGiving's business units are operating efficiently and effectively toward organizational results. Ms. Sweeny manages project execution and resource coordination against organizational timelines and goals. Ms. Sweeny also executes on operations for UniversalGiving’s corporate clientele, focusing on streamlined communications and well-functioning operations that support UniversalGiving's high standard of quality.

Ms. Sweeny offers a wide breadth of knowledge in the areas of executive operations, client service, and technology systems solutions. Ms. Sweeny brings more than six years experience working in the corporate world, as a business consultant, project manager, and web applications developer for high-profile Fortune 100 and SMB corporate clients across the country. Ms. Sweeny holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Psychology and Organizational Systems, and completion of a pre-medical curriculum and Biophysics research from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is dedicated to leveraging her experiences to help make the world a better place, and strongly believes that organizations both corporate and nonprofit can help lead the way for individuals. (hide)

Kevin Hall is the 'utility player' of the team as his broad range of talents enables him to perform well at different tasks. Consequently, a special project for Kevin can range from: organizing file server efficiency, handling initial marketing opportunities, maintaining order in the office, and helping out with operations and human resources. However, his main duties are to work closely with the CEO, provide IT support, and manage UniversalGiving's development front.

Kevin really began his interest in helping others at a young age because of the compassionate values taught by his parents. In high school he was fortunate to receive interdisciplinary studies that really questioned the fabric of our society. It was clear to Kevin that he had to do something to help those that have been neglected by social imbalance.

From there, Kevin got his BA in Philosophy and immediately applied for a position in AmeriCorps as a VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America). He was assigned to work with underprivileged students to help them get into college.

In October of 2006, Kevin found UniversalGiving via VolunteerMatch.com and was immediately accepted into the UniversalGiving community. (hide)

Ms. Pointer helps manage UniversalGiving's Marketing efforts. She increases awareness about UniversalGiving through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by working with Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter. Other web strategies include evaluation of link placements, blog management, PageRank analysis, and donations analysis. In addition to web marketing, Ms. Pointer manages the monthly disbursement process for UniversalGiving's nonprofit partners. Lastly, Ms. Pointer works on various partnership projects and opportunities.

Ms. Pointer graduated from the University of Portland with a BBA in Accounting and a Minor in Psychology. After graduation, she worked for the CPA firm Moss Adams, doing both tax and audit work. Her next step was working as an internal auditor for Umpqua Bank which is headquartered in Portland, Oregon . While this provided immeasurable professional experience for Ms. Pointer, she yearned for a more passionate vocational experience after being exposed to the workings of non government organizations through her best friends living abroad. (hide)

Audreanne Ranz serves our NGO partners through outreach activities and implementation of our Quality Model and writing the NGO newsletter and serves donors and volunteers through updating the site with current project spotlights and international news alerts and giving opportunities.

Ms. Ranz graduated from the University of Oregon in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science with an English minor and is currently pursuing her M.A. in International Organizations and Nonprofit Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. During college, she was actively involved in volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Eugene and with the S.M.A.R.T. Program which fosters a love of reading in Oregon elementary schools. Ms. Ranz has also had experience volunteering internationally with Cross Cultural Solutions in Costa Rica where she taught English in an elementary school. Upon completion of her masters in December 2008, Ms. Ranz will join UniversalGiving full-time as NGO and Client Service Associate. (hide)

Sovannary Chea is the client relations data specialist at UniversalGiving and is perfectly suited for this responsibility given her extensive background in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. She worked from 2001 to 2005 as the Operations Manager for Digital Divide Data, a Social Enterprise in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. At this organization, the country's largest IT service business, she supervised a staff of nearly 150 operators who were recruited from marginalized populations including the physically disabled, the orphaned, rural migrants, and sex-trafficked women. Fittingly, Ms. Chea was also an active member of the Disability Action Counsel that creates training and job opportunities in Cambodia, and an advisory member of the Community Service Learning program at Pannasastra University in Cambodia.

On the U.S. front, Ms. chea joined the 2003 Washington DC Development Market Place Event where she won a grant for Digital Divide Data's expansion to new sites in Battambang province, Cambodia and Vientiane, Laos. Additionally, she joined Workshop Grassroots Business Organization (GBO) in Washington, DC in 2005. Ms. Chea was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1971 and is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge period. At the age of four, her farther was killed by the Pol Pot regime, after which she and her siblings were forced to work like adults in a labor camp. But despite this adversity, in 2001 she earned her BA in English Literature at Delhi University in India and also received a computer certificate from NIIT in New Delhi, India. Her commitment to education is clear as she later earned certificates in Business Management, Comprehensive Writing Skills, and Communication Service Skills. (hide)