Nick Kristof of the New York Times wrote a column this week about a child he’s sponsored in the Dominican Republic under a a program called Plan USA.  He points out that, whenever he writes on poverty, he gets lots of questions from people about how they can help.  In this column, he mentions (and links to) a series of initiatives of organizations doing good work:

“Some people make small business loans on kiva.org, or support girls’ education, or buy anti-malaria bed nets, or pay for deworming children, or donate to organizations that battle modern slave traders, or underwrite trained rats that sniff out land mines.”

Half of these references are to Skoll social entrepreneur organizations - Kiva.org, which does online microlending, Camfed, a leader in girls education in Africa, and the HeroRATS of Apopo, which are now also doing tuberculosis detection in addition to land mines.

Nice recognition for these organizations and their work.