Entrepreneur Turns Online Winnings Into Nonprofit Training Corps
March 17, 2009
The Washington Post’s Value Added blog profiles a social entrepreneur who used his winnings from online contests for new ideas to finance a training organization for international nonprofit workers.
Steve Beale parlayed $100,000 in winnings from Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Craigslist into Atlas Corps, which sponsors nonprofit organizers from India and Columbia for a year of U.S. training in management skills.
