Technology Service Charity DoSomething.org Opens 8 Global Affiliates

Do Something Ghana has campaigns to get young people to collect children’s books for the poor and organize money-management workshops for their friends. Do Something Ghana has campaigns to get young people to collect children’s books for the poor and organize money-management workshops for their friends.

September 22, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute

DoSomething.org, a charity that uses technology to spur young people in the United States to volunteer, is going international. The organization has teamed up with nonprofits in eight countries to create new affiliates in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Great Britain.

The new groups have already kicked off campaigns. Do Something Ghana, for example, is encouraging young people to collect children’s books for literacy programs in low-income areas, make cards asking their mothers to get mammograms, and organize money-management workshops for their friends.

DoSomething expects to add more countries in 2015 and is seeking partner organizations in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.