Dear Darryl

It was a pleasure getting to know you during my trip to New York. Though I had my hands full producing Craigslist Foundation’s 2nd annual New York Tri-State Area Nonprofit Boot Camp, your nonprofit project, Poverty’s Demise .Org, sounds truly unique and holds massive potential to support millions of underprivileged children.

Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Executive Director
Craigslist Foundation

... I recently met someone who has some interesting ideas about a kind of personalized, one-to-one online charity targeting poverty worldwide.

Some aspects of his idea [Poverty's Demise .Org] seem in keeping with Google's product focus on usable, scalable online tools, so it could be a natural fit.

David P. Baker
Google Programmer
New York Office

PDO design recommendation letter sent to Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org

Dear Darryl,

Congratulation!!!

Your foundation will help to transform the way how people can be involved in helping others.

I'm sharing your message with Jeff Flug, the CEO of Millennium Promise that together with the Earth Instutute works on a project that empowers villagers in 10 sub-Saharan countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

I would like to recommend that you get in touch with Jeff Flug to explore how your efforts can support the work of Millennium Promise.

With kind regards,

Dr. Joanna Rubinstein
Public Health Director
The Earth Institute

Michelle Champagne,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 1998

Dear AOCC:

... I just wanted to inform you of how much I commend Darryl Penrice's concept & vision in the design of his unique charity transaction platform, Poverty's Demise. Org.

I believe that the inclusion of his presentation in the upcoming Alumni of Color Conference at Harvard University would be a tremendous opportunity for us all to grasp even more of the "paradigm shift" in social welfare & empowerment that Poverty's Demise .Org implies in functional design.

Thank you,
Michelle Champagne
Michelle Champagne, Ed.M.
President/CEO
MC Capacity Building Services, Inc.

PDO design recommendation letter sent to the AOCC at the Harvard University.

January 2008

Dear Darryl:

Thanks for taking the time to give your presentation at our meeting. Your creative thinking, skill and perseverance are just what the world needs! The Church's history is working internationally, interdenominationally and interracially for economic and social justice. Poverty's Demise is right in keeping with that mission.

Your brilliant idea has been transformed into a great web prototype. We look forward to talking with you again when you become operational, when we will be able to decide the best way for The Riverside Church to support your efforts.

Please keep us informed of your progress.

All the best,
Bill Apollo Brown
Will Nichols
Co-Chairs
Mission and Social Justice Commission
The Riverside Church in the City of New York

Coming Soon...

Darryl,

[Darryl] hope you are well.

..for now, i believe it is worthwhile to hold off on things until the beginning of the new year.... i very much like your tool, so please keep in touch in the upcoming months.

take care,
Steven Lee
Robinhood
Onestop
Manager

Darryl, meet Omer; Omer meet Darryl.

Darryl has developed a very exciting web space that mixes the concepts of Donors Choose with Kiva so that givers in the US, well in fact globally can support children that they locate online.

Right now the site is a prototype and the focus is in the US, but Darryl’s plan to make this a worldwide platform for global support. I think the two of you will enjoy talking with one another so have copied you both here.

Thanks,
Molly


Molly Alexander
Acumen Fund


PDO design recommendation letter sent to Omer Imtiazuddin, Health Portfolio Manager

Thanks for your note Darryl. I'm passing your request unto Creative Visions Executive Vice President- Carrie Maloney who handles the fiscal sponsorship program.

Carrie- I've been introduced to Darryl Penrice through my friend Stephanie Herbeck who attended the gallery opening this October. Stephanie works for BBDO NY and is an incredible artist/photographer and creative soul herself.

Darryl has single-handedly started a program called Poverty's Demise (PDO)- an online network that provides development tools that can be utilized to spur economic development in the poorest areas of the world. It sounds quite extraordinary.....

Thank you all, Joey

Thanks ....

Darryl will be added to our list of candidates to review. Either you or him (or both) will receive a follow-up phone call from me or from my colleague Salem Paulos in the next 30 days.

Sincerely,
Trabian Shorters
U.S. Director

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From: ..... [mailto:....@hotmail.com]
Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 10:33 PM
To: Trabian Shorters; US Program
Subject: Darryl Penrice's Nomination


Hello,

I am nominating Darryl Penrice for Ashoka. My name is Dana Habel and I think his ideas are amazing.

Thank you for your time,
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