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!

Follow Pamela on Twitter and Facebook.

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

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After graduating from law school at the University of Rio de Janeiro, she completed her Master's degree in International Financial Law at King's College in London. Natalia came to San Francisco to work with social and environmental impact organizations. She felt this is the right place to learn as much as possible and in the future apply some of the work she's seen here in communities in South America. She believes her passion and dedication brings great contributions to UniversalGiving. (hide)

Mindy brings diverse experience from both the non-profit and corporate sectors. She has served as a board member for various nonprofit and educational institutions including St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Junior League and Acalanes High School. At St. Stephen's, she has held various positions of leadership for the past 12 years, most notably in community outreach and on the vestry (board). Last year, as the chairman of the board, she was responsible for managing operations for the church including budget oversight, membership, ministries, recruiting and hiring and long term planning. She is also involved in leading a $10 million capital campaign for the church. Currently, she is also an advisor for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and a board member at the high school. Mindy gained exceptional client service skills from her previous experience in sales and customer service at Xerox, where she also led community service projects for her sales team. She then lived in Munich, Germany and worked for Compaq Computers handling international customers and subsequently as a manufacturer's representative in the greater Los Angeles area. Mindy holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in International Economics. She lives in Lafayette with her family and has three children, ages 16, 19 and 20. They enjoy traveling together, especially to go skiing in Idaho. Mindy enjoys volunteering in the local community, staying active, and painting during her free time. (hide)

Aung graduated with a bachelor's in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He brings strong analytical and technical skills from both his educational and professional background. His attention to detail, commitment to effective CSR is his desire and focus. He also has an extremely strong commitment to helping others both locally and globally. (hide)

Karen Kwiatek received her M.A. in Political Science, United Nations and Global Policy in May 2017. She specialized in Human Rights, Gender Equality, and International Law. As an undergraduate student at Rutgers, Karen served as UniversalGiving Ambassador where her interest began in sustainable business practices. Throughout her graduate work, she developed partnerships with Rutgers and the private sector while taking global business courses to further develop her skills in CSR. Karen has a strong background with both NGOs and the U.S. government. She served as Refugee Resettlement Intern at the International Rescue Committee to guide newly arrived refugees through their first 90 days of resettlement. She has also spent time volunteering with USAID's Haiti Health and Infrastructure Program in Port-au-Prince, where she assisted researching the local populations affected by the 2010 earthquake. Apart from her work life, Karen aspires to hike and kayak in all U.S. States and volunteer all over the world. (hide)

She's received her B.A. in Legal Studies and Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and is building a career in child advocacy and family law. Sam started out in NGO Services with UniversalGiving and is now part of the Office of the CEO, serving many aspects of our business. She is passionate about child welfare, the environment and politics. (hide)

Ryoko is a university student in Japan, and her major is Economy. Specifically, Ryoko is studying about "Fair Trade". She has an interest in knowing about developing countries, so she had gone to the Republic of Uzbekistan for about two months this year. She told about Japanese culture, especially Japanese dance to build mutual understanding between Japan and Republic of Uzbekistan. So, her passion is to study and understand about developing countries. Ryoko's other passion includes traveling to different places, talking with her family and friends, and dancing Japanese traditional dance. (hide)

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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)

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. (hide)

Laurie Wagner joined the UniversalGiving team as a Marketing Strategist after two decades of marketing at Fortune 500 companies, tech start-ups and non-profits. She has a BSBA in Business Management from Boston College with concentrations in finance and computer science. She volunteers internationally and locally and has a passion for international affairs as well as women's and children's issues. (hide)

Derek is a web developer who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He enjoys working on websites and learning the growing new technology in the web development world. He uses his technological skills and the modern internet to drive more people to help those in need around the world. (hide)

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Evin was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. Her nationality is Kurdish and she originates from Mardin which is an ancient city in the heart of Mesopotamia. She can speak three languages; Kurdish (mother tongue), Turkish and English. She holds a Bachelor?s Degree in Industrial Engineering. She always involves social volunteer activities in many NGOs to raise social awareness, learn more about non-profit organizations, and improve her communication and management skills. She believes real happiness comes with success, social values and sharing the love. As a hobby, she is learning web-design and doing the translation. She also loves hanging out with her friends, watching TV sitcoms, travelling and of course Paragliding! (hide)

She did her graduation in Physics from Delhi University, India but her love for technology inspired her to do masters in Computer Science later on before joining NCR Corporation as a Software Engineer. Totally Passionate about what she does, and love solving problems together with the team to drive results. She is analytically strong, technically proficient and extensively used agile methodologies to deliver her projects at NCR. (hide)

Nikhila Kambham is a Graduate from San Jose State University with a Masters in Software Engineering. Her passion for Programming started when she joined college in India to pursue Bachelors degree in Information Technology. During her Masters, she worked as Software Development Intern at Sungard Availability Services, where she got a chance to work and experiment with various areas of Software Development and found that she liked Web Development best. She considers herself a Full Stack Engineer with knowledge on JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jquery, Backbone js, require js, MySQL, Nodejs, etc. With this knowledge she could easily lead projects in School which helped her learn the whole process of building a website from scratch. When she is not coding, she likes to spend her time listening to music, especially alternative rock and metal. She also likes to travel, read novels, play guitar and solve jigsaw puzzles. (hide)

Maria is currently pursuing her Master's degree in International Relations at University of Southern Denmark. Previously, she obtained her Bachelor's in International Business, language and culture and studied abroad here in the US at San Diego University. In the past, she has volunteered with the Danish Refugee Council tutoring recently arrived refugees. She recently arrived from Denmark to intern with UniversalGiving, and she will be volunteering with us until the end of the year! (hide)

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