GlassFrog International Aid Organization

GlassFrog International Aid Organization, referred to simply as "GlassFrog", is a not-for-profit organization based in Toronto, Canada.[1]

"GlassFrog" redirects here. For the frog, see glassfrog.
GlassFrog
Not for Profit
IndustryInternational Aid, Disaster Relief
Founded2010
HeadquartersOntario, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Nicole Verkindt
(Founder, Director)
Vanessa Mancini
(Director)
Andrea Lipka
(Director)
Websitewww.glassfrog.org

History

GlassFrog was created in December 2010 by Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Nicole Verkindt.[2] Verkindt launched the venture out of frustration after working with NGOs in post-earthquake Haiti. She describes her experience there as having been slowed by bureaucracy and cronyism.[3]

Mission

GlassFrog's mission is to promote transparency and accountability for results in the international aid process.[4] The organization hosts an online forum where "GlassFrog Bloggers" share information, news and critiques on topics related to aid and relief efforts. The forum is also used to source wikisolutions (crowd-sourced solutions) to global issues.[5] Funds raised by the organization are used to implement the crowd-sourced solutions created by their users.[6]

Affiliations

GlassFrog works in cooperation with Ultimate Haiti,[7] owned by James Boulos. GlassFrog is also affiliated with Verkindt's manufacturing company, GMA.[8]

gollark: If you change the license they can just keep using the old version.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: (oh, and to clarify a bit, by "binary" I mean the slightly unixy term for executables, not the binary numeral system)
gollark: And that *also* doesn't stop me from just sticking it on my server and not giving you the binary at all.
gollark: Intellectual property law means that you can't, say, freely give someone else a binary I give you. It doesn't mean you have the source code to it so you can make changes, and it doesn't mean I can't make it only work on one computer (based on windows's "hardware ID" or whatever).

References
  1. http://www.glassfrog.org
  2. http://glassfrogforum.blogspot.com/p/message.html
  3. http://www.pr-inside.com/entrepreneurs-are-needed-to-rebuild-haiti-r2348129.htm
  4. http://glassfrogforum.blogspot.com/
  5. http://glassfrogforum.blogspot.com/p/projects.html
  6. http://glassfrogforum.blogspot.com/p/impact.html
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-02-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. http://www.gmacover.com/
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