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. Pamela has been invited to exclusive events at the White House on two occasions, in 2010 and 2012. 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!
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