Actor Kevin Bacon, who launched a social networking website called SixDegrees.org to encourage charitable fundraising, is one of thejudges in a charity event at the University of Maryland, College Park. Six student groups competed for $5,000 toward their favorite causes.
The competition" Do Good" Challenge is part of an effort by the school to make philanthropy more of a focus in academics and student life. The Food Recovery Network, which developed a system of collecting food from campus dining halls that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to homeless shelters won the competition.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.