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The Foundation Center just posted their latest Philanthropy Chat. In this edition Janet Camarena interviews Bill Somerville, founder and executive director of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF). PVF administers the giving for thousands of donors and specializes in responsive approaches to grantmaking.

Learn more here.

Listen to Janet and Bill discuss his new book Grassroots Philanthropy and his experience in the field click here.

Recently the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Silicon Valley teens engaging in philanthropy.

“Meet the new philanthropists - Silicon Valley teens with innate computer networking skills, affluent family connections and the one-click ability to bear witness to global poverty.”

Read the entire article here.

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the inspiring work of Olga Murry of Sausalito and her Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation which works to provide economically-stricken families in Nepal alternatives to selling their daughters into slavery.

The alternative, pig-farming, has saved thousands of girls from a lifetime of servitude. The foundation also works to provide educational opportunities, housing, and medical assistance to the families who join their program.

Read the article here.