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.

Read Pamela's blog, Living and Giving for thoughts about giving, volunteering, and how to live a meaningful life! (hide)

Tricia Collins is UniversalGiving's COO 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 Fundaci?n Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain, and a Professional Clear Credential for education with bilingual emphasis. (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 leads Corporate Client Service for UniversalGiving's Fortune 500 corporate partners. Ms. Frere manages their international CSR programs through UniversalGiving Corporate services. She focuses on helping companies increase corporate giving and volunteering across the world, while positively affecting corporate brand and their bottom line. 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)

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 diverse 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)

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)

Audreanne Ranz manages UniversalGiving's NGO partner relationships through research & outreach activities, implementation of UniversalGiving's Quality Model, and partnership development & management. Ms. Ranz designs & writes both the Donor & NGO newsletters and serves donors and volunteers through updating the site with current project spotlights and international news alerts and giving opportunities. Ms. Ranz also serves UniversalGiving's corporate partners by performing nonprofit due diligence for various Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives.

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 a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management with plans to complete her Masters in Public Administration. Ms. Ranz is passionate about literacy and has been actively involved in volunteering for organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of Eugene, the Oregon Start Making a Reader Today (SMART)Program and the Monterey County READS program. Other passions include: sustainable international development, "slow-food" movement and Oakland A's baseball. Ms. Ranz has also had experience volunteering internationally with Cross Cultural Solutions in Costa Rica where she taught English in an elementary school. (hide)

Cheryl Mahoney works primarily in marketing with UniversalGiving. She researches online opportunities for marketing and outreach, looking into blogs and other websites for ways to spread awareness of UniversalGiving as a resource for everyone interested in making giving and/or volunteering a part of their life. She also works on marketing partnership opportunities and leads UniversalGiving's SEO efforts. Ms. Mahoney manages and writes for Philanthrobuzz, UniversalGiving's blog, which shares resources for giving and volunteering.

Ms. Mahoney views both writing and volunteering as integral parts of her own life, and is glad to be able to combine them for UniversalGiving. She has made volunteering a priority, working regularly with the San Francisco Haight Ashbury Food Program and the Salvation Army's Tenderloin Community Center. She has always found volunteering to be as enriching for the volunteer as for the people being served.

Ms. Mahoney is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, where she was an English major with an emphasis on writing. She grew up in Sacramento, CA. (hide)

Quinn joined the UniversalGiving Team in September of 2008 as an intern. As an early graduate of high school, Quinn is the youngest member of the UniversalGiving Team. His duties include supporting both the Marketing and NGO Business Units, while also handling hands-on office tasks. He currently attends City College of San Francisco, as a freshman, and aspires to transfer to UC Davis to double major in Sociology and Philosophy. Quinn's diverse interests and passion for seeing different perspectives are what drew him toward UniversalGiving. In high school he was noted for being involved in a wide array of activities including Volunteer Club, Filipino American Club, Latino Club, and being a DJ for basketball games.

In his spare time Quinn enjoys producing music for local Hip-hop, R&B, and Alternative Rock artists and making sarcastic jokes. (hide)

Sofia Ramirez joined the UniversalGiving team as a volunteer, working primarily with Salesforce.com and other customer relationship efforts. Sofia now provides support with important operational tasks, including reporting, organizing customer information for marketing purposes, and maintenance of Salesforce relationships.

Sofia graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with a degree in Economics and Communications. Her interest in social responsibility and community action grew through her involvement with an undergraduate student organization Students for Responsible Business (SRB). As a consultant, Sofia worked with several Bay Area clients to help improve their sustainability efforts by creating business solutions that would benefit local and global communities. Focused on developing her personal and professional life, Sofia hopes to learn more about Social Entrepreneurship through her work with UniversalGiving. (hide)

Rupa Bose handles UniversalGiving's budgets and projections. Ms. Bose is an economist and consultant on international business. She has worked at Bank of America, Business International (now part of the Economist), Merrill Lynch and Banque Paribas in the areas of finance, applied economics, and equity research focused on Asia, particularly India. Ms. Bose has worked in India, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the U.S. She has published extensively and has presented in TV and radio programs. Ms. Bose holds an honors degree in Economics from Delhi University, and MBA degrees from the Indian Insitute of Management Ahmedabad as well as UCLA's Anderson School. She is currently based in San Francisco. (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)

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)

Sarah Johnston is involved with PR & Marketing for UniversalGiving on a voluntary basis and deals with executing our media strategy using both traditional and new media forms of outreach and communication. Apart from pitching journalists and non-profit advocates, she is also helping to develop the use of Web 2.0 social media resources and tools, with a focus on blogging and the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. She is additionally interested in our Search Engine Optimization Strategy as she feels it has a strong bearing on her work and is keen to further her understanding of link development, organic search and PPC campaigns.

Sarah is Irish. Her undergraduate degree was in Language & Cultural Studies with joint honours in French and Italian. She spent her third year of study abroad, at the University of Genoa, Italy as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program. She worked in the financial industry in Edinburgh for several years before deciding that she wanted a more creative and stimulating career. She did a Masters in Advertising at Napier University Edinburgh and worked as a copywriter before coming to the US. She chose to volunteer with UniversalGiving while waiting for work authorization and has found it to be a hugely rewarding and valuable experience. (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 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)

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)