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Mason Richards
Jul 4, 20070 min read
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Jun 29, 20070 min read
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Jun 27, 20070 min read
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Crowdfunding is For the Rest of Us
"Crowdfunding describes the collective cooperation, attention, and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via...
Mason Richards
Jun 22, 20074 min read
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Jun 18, 20070 min read
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How We Set Up a Non-Profit by the Seat of Our Pants
0. I wrote 0 business plans for it. The plan is simple: Get a site launched in a few months, see if people like it, and sell ads and...
Mason Richards
Jun 16, 20075 min read
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Microlending and Kiva, the theory behind it
Kiva takes the micro-lending idea and combines it with the democratizing power of the internet to allow you (or me, or the guy reading...
Mason Richards
Jun 14, 20071 min read
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Jun 13, 20070 min read
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Jun 7, 20070 min read
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Peter Moore Kidnapped in Iraq
he last i heard was that the mehdi army claiming to have him for negotions...but they still havent stated what they wanted or shown any...
Mason Richards
Jun 2, 20071 min read
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May 30, 20070 min read
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Peace Corps Organizes Workshop for Essequibo Students
The United States Peace Corps over the last two days hosted 20 Essequibo students in Georgetown for a workshop on "Career Building...
Mason Richards
May 23, 20071 min read
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Peace Corps Volunteers Honored for Work with Local Group
United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. David Robinson, has lauded the work of the rural-based Nirvana Humanitarian Society (NHS) located...
Mason Richards
May 19, 20073 min read
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Building Friendships One Person at a Time
Ask nearly all Peace Corps Volunteers to describe their experience, and they'll undoubtedly share stories about the local people they met...
Mason Richards
Apr 28, 20072 min read
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Looking South
A pontoon ferry putters on demand across the Takutu river not far from the small border towns of Lethem in Guyana and Bomfim in Brazil....
Mason Richards
Apr 26, 20072 min read
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Andrew Brandou’s Jonestown paintings
Andrew Brandou has a new show of paintings opening tomorrow night (4/14/07) at the Corey Helford gallery in Culver City, CA. The...
Mason Richards
Apr 17, 20071 min read
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Peace Corps Volunteer Missing
The Philippine police and military are searching for a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer missing for nearly a week in a mountainous northern...
Mason Richards
Apr 14, 20073 min read
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Apr 6, 20070 min read
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Doctors Without Borders
9:00 AM: Amina, 15 years old, is waiting patiently among hundreds of people. She proceeds for a few meters but she is stopped by one of...
Mason Richards
Apr 4, 20071 min read
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Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act
In some ways many of the sections of this legislation look like they came right out of our VAC minutes. This has the power to make a huge...
Mason Richards
Mar 16, 20071 min read
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Welcome to FROG!
Friends & RPCVs of Guyana is a non-profit, service based organization dedicated to supporting education, health, social, economic, and...
Mason Richards
Mar 5, 20071 min read
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More Peace Corps volunteers expected for Guyana
The United States Peace Corps said another 33 community health and education volunteers will arrive in the country by May 31.According to...
Mason Richards
Mar 2, 20071 min read
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Introducing Friends & RPCVs of Guyana
Friends & RPCVs of Guyana There are a handful of us spread out across two continents working together to frame this organization into...
Mason Richards
Mar 1, 20071 min read
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