Pamela Hawley

About

Pamela Hawley’s community service began at the age of 12. After a life-changing family vacation in Mexico, she began volunteering at soup kitchens, passing out meals, and tutoring in East Palo Alto. She has volunteered in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2000 El Salvador earthquake; sustainable farming in Guatemala; with the victims of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia; and indigenous community preservation in Ecuador. In addition to service, she adores her family. Her parents Wally and Alex have been married for more than 50 years. She loves being an aunt to Will, Connor, and Lindsey and is their sports game cheerleader. Coming from business, scale was important. Pamela co-founded VolunteerMatch in 1996, launching it and its CSR program in more than 100 cities. In 2003, she founded UniversalGivingTM (www.UniversalGiving.org), an award-winning nonprofit helping people donate and volunteer with top performing, vetted organizations all over the world. Its unique model allows 100% to go directly to the cause. All organizations are vetted with a proprietary Quality ModelTM. UniversalGiving Corporate helps manage global CSR for companies, with clients including Cisco, Gap, BHP Billiton, Fluor and RSF Social Finance. Pamela is a winner of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize in Community Service), and has been invited three times to the White House. UniversalGiving has been featured on the homepage of BusinessWeek, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Pamela was a finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is an Expert Blogger for Fast Company and CSRWire. She is a philanthropy expert for the new TV show, Billions Rising, She has a Political Science degree cum laude from Duke University and a Masters in International Communication at the Annenberg School of Communications, USC. She is a board member of the Duke NorCal Alumni Association, on Stanford’s Global Practitioner Council, Social Entrepreneurship, and on the Advisory Board of Spark. Pamela is an actress, improviser, dancer and singer with 100 performances in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. She has performed at The Groundlings; is a graduate of the Upright Citizens Brigade; advanced level Second City L.A.; and a BATS improv player. Opening People's Minds (OPM) won the SF Fringefest and she opened for the San Francisco Improv Festival. UniversalGiving’s Website: www.UniversalGiving.org Facebook: UniversalGiving and CEO Pamela Hawley Twitter: @UniversalGiving and @PamelaHawley LinkedIn: UniversalGiving Page and Pamela Hawley Pinterest: UniversalGiving Blogs: Living and Giving (CEO blog) “Inspiring Leaders to Live with Excellence and Love.” Pamela’s Website: www.pamelahawley.com