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[print] BusinessWeek Magazine Cites Global Kids as Most Notable Non-profit in SL

This week's BusinessWeek Magazine has a series of articles about real-world organizations taking their brands into Second Life. A neat graphic lists the picks for examples in each category. For non-profit? Global Kids! (Of course, we view other non-profits in SL as members in a growing community, not as our "rivals," but I guess this is how the business world sees what we do.)


NONPROFITS

Global Kids
January 2006

WHY Education, teen ourtreach, fund-raising. WHAT Runs after school programs and held a summer camp where students built an educational game about child sex trafficking and raised funds for victims. RIVALS U.N., American Cancer Society, Dartmouth, Harvard, NYU. FACTS Located on Teen Second Life grid, for users age 13 to 17.


Read the full article here.


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