Foreign Policy has released their list of the 2011 Top Global Thinkers and we're proud, though hardly surprised, to see our own Mari Kuraishi on the list. For those of you who aren't aware of the work of our GBSN Board Chair outside of her leadership of our own organization, here is a snippet from the write-up in the FP.
"Mari Kuraishi has proved that, thanks to the Internet, everyone can be a philanthropist -- and the giant development institutions no longer have a monopoly on efforts to improve the lot of the world's poorest. In 2000, the Japanese native left a successful career at the World Bank to found GlobalGiving -- a website she describes as an "eBay for philanthropy" that revolutionized the field by connecting a worldwide community of donors with ventures in need of funding. A decade later, hundreds of thousands of donors have pooled their funds -- the average donation is around $25 -- to give more than $50 million to more than 4,500 projects."
Congratulations to her and to GlobalGiving for this well-deserved recognition.
