• Raised $5,500 for Project Hope & Fairness, which supports cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast. With the money GGC raised, Project Hope & Fairness built a well, purchased 3 scales which put an end to middlemen cheating the farmers by weighing the cocoa off site • Raised $5,000 for VisionSpring (formally Scojo Foundation), which provides affordable eye care to third world citizens, while training local women in lay-optical work. The money GGC raised funded an initiative in India. • Raised $800 to Gone Rural boMake, a Swaziland artisan collective of women. The money GGC raised was used purchase 10 Q-Drums (water transportation systems) so that the women of the collective could focus more time producing income-generating handicrafts, rather than spending their days collecting water. • Raised $1,000 for the Girls Gone Green program at the Lower East Side Girls Club. Girls Gone Green provides green collar job skills and professional development for at-risk youth. • Developed a 5-week professional training program for the GREENteens, a pilot of the New York Restoration Project. Six girls from New York City’s High School for Environmental Studies created GREENteens to inspire other teens to get involved in the green movement. For more information please visit www.globalgivingcircle.org		Shana Dressler, Founder and Chief Activator For the past fifteen years, Shana Dressler has been working as a multimedia producer and photojournalist on projects that have spanned several continents. She also consults for non-profit arts and media organizations. Shana spent two years working with the nationwide satellite channel Link TV, which broadcasts documentary films from around the world that profile the critical problems facing humanity, and the people who are working to solve those problems. In the course of her work at Link TV, Shana read hundreds of emails from ordinary people around the world who were moved by documentaries they had seen to ask how they might help out in some way. It became clear to her that a lot of people want to do something to make the world a better place, but they simply don't know how. Intrigued by the possibilities of these untapped good intentions, Shana spent a couple of years researching alternative thinking in the field of humanitarian problem solving. She met visionary founders of amazing grassroots non-profits and early stage social enterprises addressing the world’s most difficult challenges with simple, brilliant solutions. In February of 2009 she launched the Global Giving Circle to help connect people who want to make a difference with each other and with groundbreaking organizations who are taking on important causes.