NPO Leader to Speak at the White House

Nonprofit leader invited to White House to speak on social innovation in philanthropy.

Evanston (I-Newswire) September 3, 2012 - Megan Kashner, Founder and CEO of Benevolent.net, will give a presentation at a day-long forum on innovation in philanthropy at the White House on September 20, 2012. Her TED-style talk will focus on the power of the Benevolent model with 150 leading thinkers in the world of philanthropy. The audience will include private, community-based, academic, and advocacy-based organizations that support the field of philanthropy.

Megan will have the opportunity to not only highlight Benevolent's work but also the work of partnering organizations to national leaders and White House Senior Administration officials. Other topics explored for the day long forum will include how philanthropy drives economic recovery, expands opportunity, and strengthens community.

Megan Kashner, Founder & CEO of Benevolent.net, is a seasoned nonprofit leader with over 20 years of strategic management, community partnership building and organizational planning experience.

Benevolent.net is a groundbreaking nonprofit website that utilizes a social media model to connect people who face hurdles along their paths to stability with people who want to help. Unlike traditional donor websites, Benevolent.net provides a platform for choice and direct personal giving, coupled with the security of a trusted validation process. Megan Kashner, was recently named one of the top 100 Innovators at 2012 Techweek.

Through a crowd-funding micro-giving model, Benevolent provides a validated and secure means for donors, people with one-time needs, and community nonprofits to collaborate in addressing challenges to overcoming poverty, one person at a time.

For more information about Benevolent.net, or to schedule an interview with Founder and CEO Megan Kashner, please contact Paul J. Crossey: 872.216.3401 / paul@benevolent.net.