Ms. Pamela Hawley is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving. UniversalGiving (UG) is an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give and volunteer with vetted, quality opportunities all over the world. Visitors simply choose a region (such as Africa) and an issue (such as education or the environment) and receive a list of quality ways to give and volunteer. 100% of donations go directly to the project. UniversalGiving performs due diligence on all its projects through its unique, trademarked Quality Model. UniversalGiving Corporate (UGC) is a customized version for Fortune 500 companies that manages their global CSR programs. UniversalGiving Corporate helps lead strategy and critical NGO vetting for clients such as Cisco and BEA in more than 50 countries across the world.

UniversalGiving is the recipient of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize for public service), a Finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an Expert Blogger on CSR for Fast Company, a Colburn S. Wilbur Fellow through the Institute for Global Ethics, and a Webby Award Honoree. UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS News and in Fox Business Network, and has also been featured in BusinessWeek, WomenEntrepreneur, Oprah.com, NBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Financial Times, CNNMoney.com and Change.org.

Pamela's community service began at the age of 12. She then expanded her service internationally, working and volunteering in microfinance in remote villages of India outside Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad; crisis relief work in the El Salvador earthquake; digital divide training at the memorial of Choeung Ek in Cambodia; and sustainable farming in the countryside of Guatemala.

Prior to UniversalGiving, Pamela was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch. Her studies include a political science degree cum laudé at Duke University and a Masters on scholarship at the Annenberg School of Communications, USC, in International Communications. She speaks on a number of topics including Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leadership at Harvard, Stanford, and USC Business Schools. In her free time she loves spending time with her family, her #1 priority. Her parents, who have been married 44 years, are two of her best friends, and she loves taking care of her nephews and niece. Pamela also performs Improv in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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

Read venture capitalist Bill Draper's letter of support for Pamela Hawley.

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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)

Anne Sweeny plays a central role with UniversalGiving as Senior Manager of Product Development. Ms. Sweeny is responsible for product management of UniversalGiving's website, ensuring that our technology and services are operating effectively toward organizational goals and results. Ms. Sweeny works with senior leadership and engineers/developers while managing project execution and resource coordination against organizational timelines and goals. Ms. Sweeny executes on annual product plans and policies that help support UniversalGiving's high standard of quality.

Ms. Sweeny offers a wide breadth of knowledge in the areas of project management, client service, and technology systems solutions. Ms. Sweeny brings more than six years experience working in the corporate world, as a business consultant, technical 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)

Adriana Rabkin is Operations Lead where she is responsible for intern training and orientation and daily office operations. She works with the CEO and COO to help implement office guidelines, policies, and Standard Operating Procedures for the UniversalGiving team.

Adriana has worked for many years in the for-profit world of management consulting and finance. She spent a few years working in management consulting for the energy industry and then after receiving her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, she worked in finance with Prudential Capital where she helped find, structure, negotiate and manage multi-million dollar private debt and equity investments in many industries across the Pacific Northwest. She has recently returned to the workplace at UniversalGiving after being home with her two boys for the past 8 years. She was born and raised in New York City but has found her new home in the Bay Area where she has lived for most of the past 12 years. (hide)

Lucia Casaravilla works with the NGO Services team at UniversalGiving, leading strategic NGO Initiatives. A strategic communicator and seasoned grant-maker, she brings 17 years of experience working in international development and communications at the International Monetary Fund. She spearheaded economic literacy programs, initiated fundraising and humanitarian campaigns and helped found the Fund's volunteer program. Having led the Fund's grant-making and charitable initiatives as the Director of Civic and Community Relations, she has strong experience working with NGO's and non-profits. She was the project manager for a dinner program at a DC women's shelter for 12 years and volunteered at a soup kitchen in rural Costa Rica.

She holds a B.S. in Mass Communications from Towson University and pursued graduate studies in International Communication at American University, where she focused her research on international volunteerism. She is currently serving as Secretary of the Board at Rebuilding Together San Francisco. (hide)

Janet is a consultant specializing in project design and management, organizational development, and strategic collaboration to projects focused on social good. She co-founded Coming of Age: Bay Area, an initiative promoting 50+ civic engagement that simultaneously builds the capacity of non-profits to utilize this growing resource. In addition, she was the Director of Experience Corps Bay Area, a program utilizing the talents of adults 55+ to mentor and tutor students. Prior to that, she was a Fulbright Scholar teaching English in South Korea and a middle school teacher for the Breakthrough Collaborative. She graduated with highest honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a major in Sociology and a minor in Dance. (hide)

Kevin Yeung has over 15 years of IT experience in software engineering from developing standalone desktop applications to complex, enterprise level web applications used to manage data and contents used by millions of online users. His diverse software experience includes working for large corporations, software start-ups, non-profits and educational institutions and spanning the telecommunication, software, banking, legal and marketing industries.

Mr. Yeung has a strong technical educational background with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and Master's degrees in Business Administration and Engineering. He is currently completing his thesis for his third master's degree in Quality Assurance. In his free time, Mr. Yeung enjoys studying European and East Asian art, literature and history; watching BBC and PBS Classic drama and first-rate foreign films released by Criterion and Janus Films; and enjoying long nature hikes. (hide)

Adi has strong engineering background in architecting and implementing highly scalable applications. He has worked from startups to large multinational companies in various business domains including finance, semiconductor and mobile. (hide)

"I have architected and developed highly scalable and complex applications for Fortune 500 companies for more than 10 years using Java, MySQL, Linux and other open source technologies. I have spent most of the time on the server side of applications, identifying bottlenecks and isolating problems, improving overall system performance. I have also worked on database applications, optimizing and tuning SQL queries." (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)

Alex Stillo leads System Administration for UniversalGiving, addressing numerous areas in UniversalGiving's entrepreneurial environment. Mr. Stillo over 12 years experience working in Information Technology with a career reflecting strong leadership coupled with "hands-on" Systems and networking expertise in all areas related to Information Technology. This includes his proven ability to translate business needs into technology requirements that support the company?s business objectives and to successfully manage all phases of IT projects from needs analysis and requirements definition to vendor selection, implementation, and training. He is passionate about technology and likes to stay on top of the latest trends so he can better understand where it's heading and to find ways to implement these technologies in a time and cost savings working environment. (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)

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 works on marketing planning as well. Ms. Mahoney manages and writes for PhilanthroPost, 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)

Armine Avetisyan joined UniversalGiving in October 2011 as a Corporate Client Services Specialist. She graduated from Yerevan State University of Armenia with an M.A. in International Relations and continued her studies in Belgium, where she received her second M.A in International Relations and Diplomacy of the European Union at the College of Europe. Her work experience includes working at a corporate foundation and at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia. After moving to the Bay Area, she expanded her non-profit experience by interning with the World Affairs Council of Southern California and ReSurge International. (hide)

Jessica Schurman works as an Operations and Development Specialist at UniversalGiving. She is a recent graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she double majored in French and Global Studies, with an emphasis on Europe. She took special interest in this geographic region after her experiences studying abroad in France during high school and college. She first studied in Aix-En-Provence during the summer of her sophomore year of high school, and then continued her studies later in college where she spent a semester living with a French family and studying at the University of Bordeaux. This extensive time spent in France helped Jessica become fluent in the language and interested in the culture.

Before working at UniversalGiving, Jessica worked as an Administrative Sales Assistant at the Papyrus headquarters in Fairfield. While working there, she gained useful insight on how corporate franchise operates, while advising Senior Sales Associates on potential new product designs and strategic arrangements of greeting card displays. (hide)

Bridget Botelho is a Marketing Specialist at UniversalGiving. She graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Communications. She now attends the University of San Francisco, where she is getting her M.A. in International Studies. Her academic studies have made Bridget very passionate about social change, philanthropy, and organizations that help people pursue these interests.

Bridget's previous work experience includes a development internship at the California Center for Cooperative Development, experience in planning philanthropic events on the UC Davis campus, and a public relations internship at Fleishman-Hillard International Communications. Although currently living in the Bay Area, Bridget has a passion to travel and immerse herself in other cultures. She traveled and volunteered throughout Europe in Spring 2011. (hide)

Nicolas Villegas is an Operations and Product Development Specialist at UniversalGiving. He graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in International Business. After studying Spanish for several years, he hopes to help develop international business relations between the United States and Latin America. Nicolas was fortunate enough to spend a semester abroad in Barcelona, where he was able to study Spanish culture. (hide)

Michele Kahrs is an Intern within the Corporate Services Team. She holds a B.A. in American Studies and Ethnicity with a minor in Cinema Television from the University of Southern California. Her academic major fits her personal interest in the diverse people and cultures that comprise both our country and our world.

Michele's work experience includes marketing and brand specialization within the gaming industry as a global product marketing manager with Electronic Arts. Previous experience includes contract licensing experience and public relations account experience across consumer, technology and cause marketing sectors with a national PR agency. Her most rewarding CSR experience would include her time as a Disney VoluntEARS Community Grant Committee member, helping to evaluate and ultimately allocate funds to over 80 deserving community organizations. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has recently made the move up to the San Francisco Bay Area in early 2011. (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)

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)

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)

Teri Lyshorn is a photographer and videographer based out of San Francisco, California. Her degree in Spanish from the University of Oregon, as well as her desire to travel, document and serve, has led her to volunteer in various yet equally wonderful organizations both abroad and in the United States.

From interning with the Latin American Solidarity Committee in Eugene, Oregon; translating at Rotacare's free health clinic in Half Moon Bay, to working on an orphanage in rural Honduras, volunteering her time will forever remain a priority in her life. (hide)

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