Pamela Hawley

I manage UniversalGiving, a social entrepreneurship nonprofit whose vision is to "create a world where giving and volunteering is a natural part of everyday life." UniversalGiving is an award-winning, web-based nonprofit allowing people to give and volunteer with the top performing projects across the world. To date, over $1.5 million and more than 8,000 volunteers have been matched through UniversalGiving. UniversalGiving Corporate is a customized version for companies, which helps launch corporate global philanthropy and volunteering for companies such as Cisco and BEA. UniversalGiving has been featured on CBS, WomenEntrepreneur, BusinessWeek, CNNMoney.com, The New York Times, and The L.A. Times. I was also a co-founder of VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit which has matched more than four million volunteers.

My community service began at the age of 12. I have worked and volunteered in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2001 El Salvador earthquake; sustainable farming in Guatemala; digital divide training in Cambodia; and indigenous community preservation in Ecuador. Additional volunteer trips include Thailand, Mexico, Nicaragua and Colombia.