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)

Claudia Frere is UniversalGiving's Director of Operations responsible for the organization's business units, administration and product development. Ms. Frere's professional background involves more than twelve 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 community involvement 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)

Oumung Mehrotra develops UniversalGiving's internet-based applications. He brings 10 years of software development and social entrepreneurship experience to the team. Mr. Mehrotra worked with Volunteer Solutions from its inception in 1998, providing internet based technology to manage the daily operations of a volunteer center or corporate volunteer program. Volunteer Solutions won the 1998 MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition and was acquired by the United Way of America in 2001. Mr. Mehrotra developed enterprise-grade web applications and an open source web application framework for 4 years at ArsDigita until it was acquired by Red Hat in 2002. Prior to joining UniversalGiving, he worked with the United Way of America to expand the Volunteer Solutions service. Mr. Mehrotra holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University. (hide)

Mark Johnson has been engineering server-side Java/database applications for over 10 years, working for large businesses, startups, non-profits, and open source projects. Most recently Mr. Johnson comes from the Internet Archive where he was the technical lead of the Books Group. During his stay 100,000 public domain books were digitized and uploaded to the Archive for free distribution over the Internet. (hide)

David Shapiro performs client and server web development for UniversalGiving. Since graduating from UC Berkeley in 1988, Dave has worked for Bay Area computer technology companies in engineering, sales, marketing, and IT. He has been programming web applications for Fortune 500 companies, Internet startups, and non-profits since 1996. Clients have ranged from Hewlett Packard to the Boys & Girls Club. Dave also contributes his engineering services pro-bono through the Taproot Foundation. On weekends, Dave can be found climbing the cliffs at Pinnacles or landing a Cessna SP at Palo Alto airport. (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)

Ms. Navarro comes from Sony Electronics, where she worked in sales in the broadcast and production systems division interfacing with high profile broadcast clients. She brings to the team a wide breadth of experience in building client relationships, originating and developing new partnerships as well as exceptional business development skills. Ms. Navarro manages UniversalGiving's corporate and marketing clients, executing on significant partnerships. She also is the lead on NGO client service. Ms. Navarro is excited to be part of the UniversalGiving team and to have the opportunity to reconcile her business skills with her passion to create change.

Ms. Navarro holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science from San Diego State University in International Business, with a focus on Marketing and Latin America where she participated in the dual degree program at the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile. During college, she was an active participant in the community, and volunteered at various non-profits in the San Diego/Tijuana area focused on development issues. Her passion has always been in the areas of women in economic development, where she has conducted research on economic, political and educational environments in Latin America. Ms. Navarro has lived and worked in the Caribbean, Mexico and Chile and continues to enjoy traveling. She speaks Spanish and is learning French. (hide)

Kevin Hall leads critical projects in operations, development, and IT for UniversalGiving. He creates procedures and operations in line with UniversalGiving's office standards which increase teamwork and efficiency. Mr. Hall is the head project leader on donor research and execution for UniversalGiving's strategic funder mailing campaigns. Mr. Hall is also the lead on IT Projects regarding our technical systems, which support team effectiveness. Mr. Hall is an effective entrepreneur, taking on creative projects related to office support and order as the needs arise.

Mr. Hall began his interest in helping others at a young age because of the compassionate values taught by his parents. Mr. Hall focused on interdisciplinary studies that questioned the fabric of our society, and continued by attaining a BA in Philosophy. After school he accepted a position in Americorps as a VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America). He was assigned to work with underprivileged students to help coach them on getting into college. In October of 2006, Kevin found UniversalGiving via VolunteerMatch.org and was immediately accepted into the UniversalGiving community. (hide)

Ms. Pointer helps manage UniversalGiving's marketing efforts. This includes maintenance of operational documents and budgets. She also increases awareness about UniversalGiving through SEO by working with Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter. Other SEO web strategies include blog management and PageRank analysis. In addition to web marketing, Ms. Pointer manages the monthly disbursement process for the non profits appearing on the site. 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)

Jennifer Bennett brings more than six years of experience leading award-winning campaigns for clients in the consumer technology, corporate and NGO space. Her breadth of diverse experience spans spearheading public relations programs for clients such as SyncTV (Pioneer Spin-off), American Express, Landor Associates, Blue Shield, Chevron, Women?s Initiative for Self Employment, Okizu, and Las Casa de Las Madres among others.

Ms. Bennett manages media strategy and execution surrounding numerous campaign efforts for UniversalGiving and its partners. In addition, she provides counsel surrounding Web 2.0 social media programs and tools. Ms. Bennett is pursuing a Masters degree in Nonprofit Administration at the University of San Francisco and concurrently consulting on PR activities within the technology industry. Volunteerism started early for Ms. Bennett, whether it was a community clean up day or programs helping the needy. At the age of seven Jennifer became active in the Girl Scouts of the USA, Troop #1106. She made sure to keep her neighbor"s cupboards stocked with cookies (thin mints to be exact). Ms. Bennett is also an avid volunteer with 826 Valencia and serves on the Board for the Bay Area Advertising Relief Committee (BAARC), an organization whose mission is focused on helping advertising and marketing professionals in times of need. (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)

Ms. Perez joined UniversalGiving through Jobs for Youth, a nonprofit organization working with young adults in San Francisco find employment. She helps prepare and maintain UniversalGiving’s mailings through funding campaigns. Ms. Perez is currently a senior at John Adams High School and plans to move on to City College in the Fall. She enjoys being involved with non profit organizations, where she is also working with Girl Source, an organization whose mission is to outreach and educate young women about the struggles that young women face everyday. (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)

Tricia Collins is UniversalGiving's University Liaison. She partners universities with UniversalGiving to ensure that students have access to the best international volunteer opportunities, tailored to their interests and passions. She also helps recruit interns for the UniversalGiving home office.

Ms. Collins' professional background involves 5 years of marketing and intranet website development with Nike, and over 5 years of international, bilingual and inner-city education. Her interest in social impact originates with teaching in Inner-City Los Angeles for Teach For America, and culminates in teaching and leading a study abroad program in Spain. Ms. Collins focus on social change in impoverished areas is founded on her passion for international studies. 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 Fundacion Ortega y Gasset inToledo Spain, and a Professional Clear Credential for education with bilingual emphasis. (hide)

Max McCormick is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years professional experience. Since 1999 he has consulted for corporations and nonprofits, helping them to realize an effective online presence. Through close attention to strategy and process, coupled with use of Java and open source technologies, he has created innovative solutions for clients such as BEA Systems and Chevron. Mr. McCormick has held senior positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ADI, Australia's largest defense contractor. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BSEE (Honors). Mr. McCormick is driven by a desire to create positive social change, informed by extensive travel throughout the developing world, including many months in Brazil, Peru and East Africa. (hide)

Mark Lieberwitz joined the UniversalGiving team in July of 2006 as a marketing intern. In his SEO marketing position, he manages marketing strategy relating to online marketing campaigns and online search marketing.

Mr. Lieberwitz is a recent graduate of Tulane University with a BSM in Business Management from the A.B. Freeman School of Business and a BA in Music. His prior experience includes a database management and marketing strategy internship at Integral Talent Systems, and a street team position with Hi-Frequency Marketing promoting music and movie projects. Prior to that, Mr. Lieberwitz held a marketing and public relations internship position for the Annual Cultural Jewish Street Fair with the Palo Alto JCC in which he solicited and secured sponsorships, developed and distributed marketing materials, and managed a team of festival planning volunteers.

As a New Orleans resident for the past four years, Mr. Lieberwitz has volunteered towards the rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina. He currently plays in a Bay Area funk/blues/rock band and is extremely passionate about marketing and web development. (hide)

Currently a senior at Duke University, Ian Long is pursuing a degree in English with a French minor. He has volunteered abroad, first in Sri Lanka in 2005 where he helped a local community rebuild after the tsunami. In 2006, Ian traveled to Senegal and helped a local NGO revise their agricultural education program. These two experiences opened his eyes to the value of immersing oneself into foreign cultures. Here in the US, Mr. Long tutors elementary school students in underachieving schools with America Reads, a US Federal government program. Next year he will hold a staff position at the Duke University Community Service Center. (hide)

Emily Stehr is the UniversalGiving Representative for Princeton University. She helps spread the word about UniversalGiving to campus groups and helps create partnerships. Ms. Stehr has a strong background in nonprofit management, having learned about NGOs and non-profit work from her experience with Engineers Without Borders (EWB). During the summer of 2006, Ms. Stehr traveled to Southern Ethiopia with her University's chapter of EWB. During the two months she spent there, her team worked on installing an irrigation system for the community gardens so as to relieve the women of the village of their physically-demanding daily task of carrying water and to improve community health by expanding the size and production volume of the gardens. Ms. Stehr became the acting Project Manager for the EWB Ethiopia project for the 2006-2007 academic year and returned to the village in March 2007 to successfully finish the irrigation line. The experience of managing such a project inspired her to join an organization that helps streamline the often daunting work of fundraising, cutting through red tape, and recruiting volunteers that NGOs and non-profits must go through before their REAL work begins.

Ms. Stehr is currently entering her senior year at Princeton University in New Jersey where she studies Intellectual History, Neuroscience, French Culture and Literature, and Swahili Language. She was born and raised in Piedmont, California. (hide)

Ms. Gunders brings numerous years of experience in consumer, business-to-business and nonprofit marketing to UniversalGiving. Currently, she is leading marketing strategy and communications for PowerLight Corporation, a US-based leader in solar energy solutions. Her previous experience includes marketing and brand strategy work for firms including enterprise software leader PeopleSoft, AOL, MSN and Sun Microsystems.

Additionally, Ms. Gunders took time off to co-found and direct marketing for InTandem, a San Francisco based 501(c)3 social venture philanthropy organization. In conjunction with Deloitte Consulting, InTandem was created to maximize young professionals' social impact in the community by utilizing their skills, money and networks. The InTandem model enables young professionals to research, invest in and consult with nonprofits addressing the root causes of social issues.

Before starting medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mr. Smith interned at UniversalGiving and began work on a project to raise awareness of the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Currently, he helps craft the language on both the UniversalGiving Web site and newsletter.

In his spare time, he enjoys chasing the euphoria that occasionally rewards long distance runners after a good hard effort. And, in spite of his long distance runner physique, he sports a twice-broken, Owen Wilson-like beak that the ladies find inexplicably enchanting. (hide)