The Daily Entrepreneur: Charity Evaluation and Conflict Fair Trade

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Published March 02, 2009 @ 07:47PM PT

Interesting and varied content today, including a post about Palestinian Fair Trade olive oil!

GiveWell - Preview of 2008-2009 Report: Nonprofit evaluation shop, GiveWell's team releases a preview of its new report including research about their newest "top charity," the Carter Center.

Conflict, Fair Trade Label Boost Sales of Palestinian Produced Olive Oil: A fascinating little post about how the popularity of Palestinian Fair Trade olive oil - the first Fair Trade olive oil - is experiencing increased demand. Really cool company.

DEMO '09: One of the tech industry's biggest events, DEMO is a bi-annual summit that serves as a launching pad for new companies. These year, the voice of social enterprise seems better represented than ever before, with presentations by people like Dream Village founder Suneet Bhatt.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.